Great job to our poster presenters Nghi and Michelle at the 2025 IFI symposium, and congrats Michelle on your prize! Job well done!
Congrats Michelle on winning a poster prize at the IFI symposium!
on on Congratulations Nghi on T32 appointment!
on Congratulations to our newest grad student in the lab Nghi Ly on her appointment to the Microbiology T32! An outstanding accomplishment for someone in their first year in the lab. We look forward to seeing what you discover!
Welcome to the Fall of 2025!
on The lab enjoyed a beautiful summer but we’re excited to launch into the new quarter! Welcome to our CMB rotation students and welcome to all the new grad students on campus. We’re looking forward to the lineup of MMG seminar speakers and the upcoming MMG bbq. Best of luck everyone with your classes!
Congratulations Jessie on your T32 appointment!
on Jessie was awarded a position on the Immunology T32 – congratulations Jessie!
And a special thank you to the senior faculty at UCI who put in so much effort to obtain these training grants for our students, they are very much appreciated and provide great opportunities for networking and interacting with the community.
We have been awarded our first NIH R01!!!
on I’m very happy (and relieved) to share that our studies on Rickettsia pathogenesis and host response have been funded through the NIH National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease (NIAID)! I thank all of the important staff at NIH, the reviewers, our collaborators, and most importantly the folks in my lab who made this happen. I’m excited to get to work and make some exciting discoveries!
Welcome to the lab Nghi!
on We’re excited to welcome a new lab member, Nghi Ly, who joins us from the CMB graduate program. Welcome to the lab Nghi! We look forwarded to seeing the cool discoveries you make on Rickettsia pathogenesis and host response.
Meggie Danielson awarded spot on Cancer T32 training grant – congrats Meggie!
on We learned this week that after a written application and in-person interview, Meggie was selected from a competitive pool of applicants for a spot on the cancer T32. Great job Meggie!
Manuscript accepted at Nature Communications – Congratulations Michelle!
on Michelle Sun’s paper “Host glutathione is required for Rickettsia parkeri cell division and intracellular survival” was accepted this week at Nat Comms, congrats Michelle! A lot of hard work and some interesting phenotype is rewarded by this great news. Check out this cool super-res image from her work!
Great job to our undergrads Alejandro and Aashi on their poster presentations!
on Ale and Aashi showed off their posters at our recent UCI Excellence in Research presentations. Congrats on your recent discoveries and great job representing the lab!
March (microbial) Madness
on The lab is in the midst of our annual (3x recurring) March Madness NCAA college basketball tournament challenge! Shout out to previous winners Meggie and me! The winner will receive a fun microbiology-themed prize. We celebrated with our annual lab trip to Buffalo Wild Wings where we all ate and suffered from the spiciest Blazin’ wings. The UC Irvine Anteaters (men’s) were very competitive this year, but sadly were outmatched by UC San Diego, and we did not make the NCAA tournament – better luck next year. Also sadly neither of my Alma maters IU or Cal made the tournament. At some point I need to start asking – maybe it’s me? Regardless, it was a fun celebration of basketball, microbiology, and spicy chicken. Best of luck to all the pool participants – I am accepting suggestions for what the prize should be this year, it can be anything except more spicy wings.