Trip to the bowling alley with the lab and special guests. I think the image speaks for itself.
News
Sara is off to BoP!
Sara was admitted to the 2019 Biology of Parasitism course at Woods Hole at the Marine Biological Laboratory and won a Boehringer Travel Fellowship to support this endeavor! Send us postcards and popovers from Pie in the Sky!!!
Cologne Carnival at MPI
MPI has an annual costume competition…we went as the Toxoplasma life cycle complete with Toxoplasma (Ece), an infected human brain (Sara), the cat host (Bruna), Chronic stage in hiding (Shamir) and a crazy cat lady (me).
Host (Bruna) and parasite (Ece)
Infected Toxo brain (Sara)
Host and its Toxo-infected poop (Bruna), crazy cat lady (me), Infected brain (Sara)
Lab opens! 1/1/2019
Photos of the lab space prior to colonization!
Lab opens January 2019
Lab officially opens at the Max Planck Institute for Biology Of Ageing In 1/1/2019
2018: Bruna Martins Garcia Joining The Lab As A Ph.D. Candidate!
Bruna Garcia Martins will be joining following the completion of her Master’s Thesis with Dr. Marcos Chiaratti at the Federal University of São Carlos! Hopefully she brings some brigadeiros with her :)
Lena is one of the Science News Top 10 Scientists To Watch 2017
On viewing Toxoplasma infection as a kind of ‘hunger games’ between host mitochondria and microbe. Piece by Aimee Cunningham.
