Farewell to Francisco !

Congratulation to Francisco. Francisco is off to Big Pharma – working on developing Immunotherapies. Francisco joined the lab as a Masters student and then stayed on for the past 2 years !! We will miss him (although he is close […]

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Welcome to Carly Blair !

Carly Blair joins the lab after completing her BS in Molecular Genetics from the University of Rochester !

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Welcome to our Sidwell Friends Interns !

We welcome Winta Brhane, Ananeah Nevil and Krish Batra from the Sidwell Friends School in Washington DC as our High School Summer interns. Our high schoolers typically get a crash course in pipetting and lab skills – and then get […]

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The Local Carribean

A new Carribean restaurant (Carribean Dynasty), opened up across the street from the lab. So Farrah & Adedola organized a quick visit with some of the lab people to evaluate 🙂

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Congrats to Liz !! Best Poster at UMGCC Cancer retreat !

AAyyy – Elizabeth Hill wins the Best Poster Award at the UMSOM Cancer Retreat for the 2nd year running !! Way to go, Liz !!

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Welcome to Farah Ammar !

We welcome Farah Ammar to the lab. Farah is a Masters student from Sorbonne University in Paris, France and she will be completing a research semester with us towards her thesis project.

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Welcome Adedola for her GPILS Lab Rotation !

Welcome to Adedola Adebamowo for her Laboratory rotation. Adedola is a 1st year Graduate Student in the Biochemistry and Molecular Biology program of the Graduate School at UMSOM (GPILS).

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Budhaditya Chatterjee joins the lab

Welcome Budhaditya to the lab ! Budha is a computational Immunologist with a Ph.D. in Systems Biology from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT, Delhi). He comes to us from the Indian Institute of Science (IISc, Bangalore) where he completed […]

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Maxine Atuheirwe Joins the lab !

We welcome Maxine to the lab ! Maxine Atuheirwe joins us as a Research Fellow. Maxine completed her Masters in Immunology from Makerere University in Uganda and was part of training fellowships from NIH (Fogarty International Center) and the London […]

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MEMSEAL is a go ! DARPA systems vaccinology initiative.

The Defense Advanced Research projects Agency (DARPA) selected us as one of the teams leading an ambitious effort to predict the formation of long term immunological memory soon after a vaccination, under the auspices of the Assessing Immune Memory (AIM) […]

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Homecoming 2022 : Visit by our Alums

Despite all the challenges of the pandemic and a snowstorm on the east coast, some of our Alumni made it to the lab reunion (either in person or as cardboard cutouts :-). So great to see everyone from near and […]

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CONGRATS to Dr. Gideon Wolf on his paper !!!

Gideon’s paper on the alteration of T cell dynamics in vivo after FLT3L treatment is out : https://rdcu.be/cZBR8 . This was a long journey 🙂 Congrats to Gideon, Allie, Kenny and Zach – for sticking with it through the revisions […]

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Welcome Katrina Gorga to the lab !!

Katrina Gorga Katrina joins the lab as a Lab assistant trainee after working at the Maryland Science Center in Baltimore.

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Lab at the 2022 GPILS Award ceremony

The Hills: Liz with Thomas The UMSOM Graduate Program’s 2022 awards featured Liz & Nevil (from the lab) and an additional member of the department : Joao Pedra. See full presentation at the GPILS site : 2022 Awards. Zach, Liz, […]

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Welcome Crystal Stinson to the lab !!

Crystal Stinson Crystal joins the lab as a Laboratory assistant after completing her training with the BioTechnical Institute (BTI)‘s BioStart program.

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