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CONGRATULATIONS TO MARTA OLSON on her acceptance into the PATH 2 program!!

Advanced Independent Research

Path 2 is intended for students who are interested in fulfilling their degree requirements by conducting independent research in a faculty mentor’s laboratory.  Undergraduates engage in at least two-quarters of letter-graded research (196A and 196B) and concurrently participate in research seminars (180A and 180B) designed to help students acquire in-depth and broad knowledge about their research project. 

Congratulations, Xianhe Li, for an Excellent Talk!

Innate Immunity and Immunometabolism seminar (3i)

Congratulations to Chahat! 

Chahat has received (3) travel fellowships: 

1) ToxoInc travel grants
2) DMM conference travel grants from the Company of Biologists
3) IMPRS travel grant 2024

Burroughs Wellcome Fund - Congratulations!

Lena Pernas, PhD., David Geffen School of Medicine at University of California-Los Angeles: “Organellar sensing of microbes”

2024 Burroughs Wellcome Fund Investigators in the Pathogenesis of Infectious Disease Announced - Burroughs Wellcome Fund

RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C., 20 May 2024- The Burroughs Wellcome Fund is delighted to announce the 2024 recipients of the Investigators in the Pathogenesis of Infectious Disease (PATH) program. PATH provides opportunities for assistant professors to study the points where the systems of humans and potentially infectious agents connect. PATH is a highly competitive award program that provides $500,000 over five years to study pathogenesis. The program intends to give recipients the freedom and flexibility to pursue new avenues of inquiry, stimulating higher-risk research projects that hold potential for significantly advancing our understanding of how infectious diseases work and how health is maintained. The Burroughs Wellcome Fund presents the following scientists as the 2024 PATH program recipients: Kimberly Davis, PhD Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Utilizing a 3D human abscess model to uncover antibiotic persistence mechanisms Tera Levin, PhD University of Pittsburgh How mechanisms of pathogenesis arise from environmental battlegrounds Monica Mugnier, PhD Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Role of extravascular spaces in Trypanosoma brucei antigenic variation Teresa Omeara, PhD University of Michigan Discovery and functional analysis of novel virulence factors in Candida auris Lena Pernas, PhD David Geffen School of Medicine at University of California-Los […]