Nora's new paper is out on BioRxiv!
Check out "Plasma membrane protrusions mediate host cell-cell fusion induced by Burkholderia thailandensis": https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.02.24.481536v1
Thomas Burke, former postdoc, accepts faculty position at UC Irvine School of Medicine!
Thomas starts his new position as Assistant Professor in the Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics at the University of California - Irvine School of Medicine in February 2022: https://faculty.sites.uci.edu/burkelab/
Cuong Joseph Tran is awarded 2021 CEND fellowship!
Cuong Joseph Tran, graduate student in the Welch lab, has been awarded an Irving H. Wiesenfeld fellowship from the Center of Emerging and Neglected Diseases (CEND):
THOMAS' PAPER IS OUT ON BIORXIV. AN ADVENTURE INTO THE FIELD OF INNATE IMMUNITY!
Check out "Inflammasome-mediated antagonism of type I interferon enhances Rickettsia pathogenesis": https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/697573v1
Vida's paper is now out on biorxiv. Our first foray into metabolism!
Check out "A metabolic dependency for host isoprenoids in the obligate intracellular pathogen Rickettsia parkeri underlies a sensitivity for the statin class of host-targeted therapeutics": https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/528018v1
Bisco Hill won a prize for best talk by a postdoc at the CDB retreat!
Congratulations Bisco!
Taro's newest paper is now online at Current Biology!
Check out "Baculovirus Actin-Based Motility Drives Nuclear Envelope Disruption and Nuclear Egress": https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2018.05.027
FORMER POSTDOC BECKY LAMASON's and technician Natasha Kafai's paper is now live in PLOS ONE!
Check out the paper online! http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0197012
Graduate student Nora Kostow passed her qualifying exam!
Congratulations Nora!