Joshua Hatterschide awarded NIH Individual Postdoctoral Fellowship
Joshua Hatterschide of Carolyn Coyne's Lab was awarded a prestigious F32 grant from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS).
PhD candidate Agastya Sharma awarded NIH F31 grant
On Jan. 23, Agastya Sharma's Fellowship application was awarded from the NIH after receiving a perfect score. Agastya is currently a Molecular Genetics and Microbiology grad student in the lab of Raphael Valdivia.
PhD candidate Naren Mehta awarded NIH F31 grant
On November 27th, Naren Mehta of Maria Ciofani's lab was awarded a highly prestigious F31 grant from the The National Institutes of Health, supporting 3 years of funding.
Stacy Horner featured in Cell Press webinar Nov. 15
On November 15, 2023 at 12pm ET, faculty member Stacy Horner will be one of three guests presenting at the Cell Press webinar, "RNA sensing in immunity".
New Mouse Model Discovered to Study Granuloma Response
Carissa Harvest working in the Miao lab described a new mouse model to study how granulomas, cellular fortresses built around foreign objects, kill pathogens. She showed that innate immune cells form a fully functional granuloma to wall off environmental bacteria like Chromobacterium violaceum and efficiently eliminate them. These immune cells must have intact inflammatory cellular death (pyroptotic) defenses and the ability to generate the toxic gas nitric oxide to kill the bacteria.
Nozaki and Miao propose new framework for execution of programmed cell death
Kengo Nozaki and Ed Miao have published a review in Trends in Cell Biology (September 2023) where they propose a new way of thinking about cell death.
Fernando Souza Receives NIH Diversity Supplement
Congratulations to Fernando Souza for receiving a diversity supplement from the NIH to fund his graduate thesis.
Fernando is studying how the innate immune system forms a successful granuloma against a novel environmental pathogen called Chromobacterium violaceum. He is in Ed Miao's lab.