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Congratulations to Liz Ortiz and Travis Wiles!
Scientists at the Charlie Dunlop School of Biological Sciences at UC Irvine report that they have developed a powerful new tool, called Phollow, that lets scientists watch viral activity in the gut microbiome of living animals with unprecedented precision—down to a single viral particle. Led by Travis Wiles, PhD, assistant professor, the study … offers…
Congratulations to Suhas and Shannon!
Please join us in congratulating Suhas Sureshchandra (Wagar Lab) who won best speaker (pictured second from left) and Shannon Geels (Marangoni Lab) who won best poster (pictured far right) at the Immunology LA Meeting in Los Angeles on June 28th – way to go Suhas and Shannon!
Congratulations to the Marangoni Lab
Please join us in congratulating the Marangoni lab on their newly published paper “Interruption of the intratumor CD8+ T cell:Treg crosstalk improves the efficacy of PD-1 immunotherapy” Link to paper
Congratulations to Travis Wiles!
Please join us in congratulating Travis Wiles, who was awarded a Hellman Fellowship last week. This fellowship is presented to promising Assistant Professors who show capacity for great distinction in their research across the ten UC campuses.
IFI celebrates T32 Awardees
The IFI celebrated the new Immunology T32 recipients with a reception on Wednesday, August 30th. Congratulations to Zena Del Mundo, Shannon Geels, Karl Liboro, Zach Wagoner and Hannah Debray (Immunology Fellowship Recipient). Please click read more to see photos from the event.
Please join us in congratulating Alex Moshensky on his newly funded F31
Congratulations to Alex Moshensky (Marangoni Lab) on his newly funded F31 through NIAMS! His project “Disentangling the Epidermal Immune Crosstalk in Inflammatory Skin Disease” looks at excessive neutrophil recruitment due to a skin-specific knockout of OVOL1 in response to damage to the skin. This is a collaborative effort with Dr. Xing Dai.
Please join us in congratulating Serena Abbondante on her newly published paper
Immunity to pathogenic fungi in the eye
New Research Sheds Light on a Protein that Shapes the T Cell Response to Viral Infections
A recent study published in the Journal of Virology by a team from the Department of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry that includes Assistant Professor Roberto Tinoco, graduate student Julia DeRogatis and co-authors from the Tinoco lab, and Assistant Professor Dequina Nicholas has revealed a new discovery about how T cells respond to viral infections. The…