Research News

Joshua Hatterschide of Carolyn Coyne's Lab was awarded a prestigious F32 grant from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS).

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.

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.

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".

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. 

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.

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.

Congratulations to Jessica Portillo for her work on:

The Role of Host Genetics in Modulating the Beneficial Effects of the Gut Commensal Akkermansia muciniphila

Jessica Portillo of Raphael Valdivia's lab, is one of the 2023 Burroughs Wellcome Fund Graduate Diversity Enrichment Program (GDEP) awards recipient.