September 2023
The lab welcome rotation students Kayleigh Goebelbecker and Hugh Notman to the lab! They will be working with Laura and Emily investigating aspects of T. brucei biology!
August 2024
Congratulations to our poster presenters at the KMCB 2024 meeting! Caroline, Laura, Sophie, and Jacqui all presented their work!
June 2024
Congratulations to Caroline for being awarded an NIH NRSA F32 fellowship, entitled “Defining the molecular mediators of cell morphogenesis in Trypanosoma cruzi”
May 2024
Congratulations to Maddie for being awarded the Frederic Poole Gorham pre-doctoral Fellow (Brown University) for 2024-2025!
December 2023
Congratulations to Caroline for being awarded an American Heart Association postdoctoral fellowship for her work on T. cruzi.
September 2023
The lab welcomes rotation student Madeline Malfara! She will be working with Caroline on building tools to study T. cruzi. She has a strong background in trypanosome biology, and we are ecstatic to have her!
June 2023
The lab is welcoming three new members! For the summer we will have Jacqueline Lopez joining us from El Paso as she completes her Leadership Alliance summer program. We also have Sophie Marcus-Wade joining us as an undergraduate researcher, who is currently a Brown University student. Last but not least, we have Emily Campbell joining us as our new research assistant!
May 2023
The labs newest paper is available as a preprint! Congratulations to Paul and Chris for this wonderful paper on cell division in T. cruzi.
Read the paper here!
January 2023
Congratulations to Paul Campbell on his successful doctoral defense!
November 2022
We welcome Janet Ogeneitsega Joseph to the lab as a rotation student! Janet completed her BSc at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. She was an Intramural Research Training Awardee (IRTA) in the Viral Epidemiology and Immunity Unit at the NIAID/NIH, where she studied the seroprevalence of the endemic coronaviruses in a pediatric cohort in Cebu, Philippines, how they influence infection with SARS-CoV-2, and their overall protective ability. . Her previous experiences include brain stimulation and ketamine to relieve the symptoms of depression at the NIMH, deep brain stimulation for Parkinson’s disease, and spinal cord injury and neuromodulation at the Mayo Clinic. Her interests are in tropical diseases endemic in Africa, their origin, modes and mechanisms of infection, evolution over time, and vaccine/drug development.
July 2022
The lab welcomes Caroline Keroack, PhD as a postdoctoral researcher to the lab!
May 2022
The lab welcomes Mabel Tettey, PhD as a postdoctoral researcher to the lab!
March 2022
The lab welcomes Laura Smithson, PhD as a postdoctoral researcher to the lab!
September 2020
We welcome Brandon Drescher, PhD into our lab as a new post-doctoral researcher!
Spring 2020
The lab is sad to say goodbye to Richard Muniz and Holly Tran. We wish them the best of luck in the future!
December 2018
Congratulations to Jenna Perry on completing her PhD! Good luck on your continued journey at UNC Chapel Hill!
November 2018
We just made a website!