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Sanjana Sen is currently hiring a graduate intern at Genentech in peptide discovery for 12 weeks in the summer. The role involves phage display library generation, screening and biochemical (ELISA, SPR, BLI) and functional analysis (in vitro and cell-based). Link to the posting and application details
Congratulations to Coleen Cunningham and Andrew Noymer who were recognized in the Orange County Register’s 125 most influential people for 2022!
Dr. Coleen Cunningham Cunningham, the chair for the UCI Department of Pediatrics and senior vice president and pediatrician-in-chief for CHOC, leads national and international pediatric clinical trials in RSV vaccine studies for young children, one of which was recently published the Journal of Infectious Disease and studies of anti-HIV monoclonal antibodies administered to newborns born to…
Congratulations to Tom Lane on two recently published papers
Sun, Z., H. Zhao, D. Fang, C.T. Davis, D.S. Shi, K. Lei, B.E. Rich, J.M. Winter, L. Guo, L.K. Sorensen, Z. Tong, K.R. Thomas, A.L. Mueller, A.H. Grossman, B. Zhang, T.E. Lane, R.S. Fujinami, S.J. Odelberg, and W. Zhu (2022). ARF6 activation disrupts blood-CNS barrier function via endothelial to mesenchymal transition and promotes the progression of neuroinflammatory…
Congratulations to Alexis Bouin and Bert Semler on their recently published paper in the Journal of Virology
Bouin A, Vu MN, Al-Hakeem A, Tran GP, Nguyen JHC, Semler BL. Enterovirus-Cardiomyocyte Interactions: Impact of Terminally Deleted Genomic RNAs on Viral and Host Functions. J Virol. 2022 Dec 8:e0142622. doi: 10.1128/jvi.01426-22. PMID: 36475766.
Emily Neubert (Tinoco Lab) wins a 2nd Place AAI Young Investigator Award
Emily Neubert (Tinoco Lab) wins a 2nd Place AAI Young Investigator Award for her Oral Presentation on “HMGB2 Regulates the Differentiation and Stemness of Exhausted CD8+ T Cells During Chronic Viral Infection” at the 20th Annual Immunology Fair. Congratulations Emily!
Zachary Wagoner (Wagar Lab) wins a 2nd Place AAI Young Investigator Award
Zachary Wagoner (Wagar Lab) wins a 2nd Place AAI Young Investigator Award for his Poster Presentation on “Building a Model for Predicting Vaccine Efficacy using Human Immune Organoids” at the 20th Annual Immunology Fair. Congratulations Zach!
Gema Olivarria (Lane Lab) wins the Society for Leukocyte Biology Award for Innate Immunity
Gema Olivarria(Lane Lab) wins the Society for Leukocyte Biology Award for Innate Immunity for her poster on “Sustained Infiltration of Neutrophils into the CNS Results in Increased Demyelination in a Viral-Induced Model of Multiple Sclerosis” at the 20th Annual Immunology Fair. Congratulations Gema!
Jose Moran (Marsden Lab) presents a poster at the Immunology Fair
Jose Moran(Marsden Lab) presents his poster on “Enhancing Tolerability and Efficacy of Latency Reversing Agents in “Kick and Kill” HIV Cure Approaches” to Marc Swidergall, Investigator at The Lundquist Institute, Harbor-UCLA Medical Center at the 20th Annual Immunology Fair.
Congratulations to Katrine Whiteson on her recently published papers
UCI Biological Sciences Press Release The Tip of the Phage Biology Iceberg Avelar-Barragan J, DeDecker L, Lu ZN, Coppedge B, Karnes WE, Whiteson KL. Distinct colon mucosa microbiomes associated with tubular adenomas and serrated polyps. NPJ Biofilms Microbiomes. 2022 Aug 29;8(1):69. doi: 10.1038/s41522-022-00328-6. PMID: 36038569; PMCID: PMC9424272. Rothman JA, Saghir A, Chung SA, Boyajian N, Dinh T, Kim…
Suellen Hopfer, University of California Irvine – Social Media Strategies to Educate Young Adults on Vaccines – The Academic Minute
How do we best educate young adults about vaccines? Suellen Hopfer, assistant professor of health, society, and behavior at the University of California, Irvine program in public health, discusses social media’s role. Suellen Hopfer has a PhD in health communication and post-doctorate training in prevention methods and randomized trial designs. She has been teaching and conducting research…
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