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
Faculty member Stacy Horner will be one of three guests presenting at the 2023 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.
Ciofani Lab Mouse Study Yields Potential New Target to Combat Multiple Sclerosis
Researchers in Maria Ciofani's lab, studying multiple sclerosis in mice, have identified a protein that could reshape the understanding of MS treatments.
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.
Jessica Portillo awarded Burroughs Wellcome Fund 2023 GDEP award
Jessica Portillo of Raphael Valdivia's lab, is one of the 2023 Burroughs Wellcome Fund Graduate Diversity Enrichment Program (GDEP) awards recipient. Jessica is currently a grad student in the Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology (MGM).
Researchers Unveil Groundbreaking Genetic Manipulation System for Akkermansia muciniphila and its Potential Health Benefits
In groundbreaking work in the field of probiotic research, a team led by Dr. Raphael Valdivia in the Duke Department of Integrative Immunobiology has described a system for the genetic manipulation of Akkermansia muciniphila, an emerging probiotic microbe with remarkable immunomodulatory properties.