News + Good Things
Catching up with Sara Mashoof!
July 12, 2025: Mike’s first student, Sara Mashoof, came to town and everyone got to catch up and hear her latest adventures. It was great to see her again!
Karina Hissen at the 2025 VMBS Research Trainee Symposium.
February 6, 2025: Karina Hissen won 2nd place for her Poster Presentation and 3rd place for her Flash talk at the 2025 VMBS Research Trainee Symposium. Here is Dr. Criscitiello presenting Karina with one of her awards at the banquet.
Sending our graduates out into the world.
May 9th, 2024: Morgan Sheppard, Nicholas Ebert, and Casey Whitley graduated with a BS. In Biomedical Sciences. We are so proud of what they have accomplished and look forward to their future endeavors. Here they are with Karina and Kerstin after a long day in the lab for Karina’s dissertation work.
Karina Hissen at the The Conference of Research Workers in Animal Diseases
January 24, 2024: Karina Hissen won 1st place for her poster presentation, awarded by the American Association of Veterinary Immunologists at The Conference of Research Workers in Animal Diseases. Here she is presenting her work on the “Effects of dietary glutamate supplementation on the respiratory burst of leucocytes in Hybrid Striped Bass”.
Karina Hissen at the North America Comparative Immunology Workshop in Auburn, Alabama.
June 7th, 2023: Karina Hissen won a travel award to present at the North America Comparative Immunology Workshop in Auburn, Alabama. Here, she presents her work on the “Effects on Immune Gene Expression from Glycine Supplementation in Hybrid Striped bass”.
Karina Hissen at the 2023 Agricultural Outlook Forum
February 24, 2023: Karina Hissen was selected to be one of ten graduate students nationwide for the USDA’s Future Leaders in Agriculture Program. At the 2023 Agricultural Outlook Forum in Washington, D.C., she was able to engage with USDA leaders and policymakers, explore current issues in agribusiness, scientific research, and agricultural policy, and represent emerging […]
Dr. Ott presents at the Postdoc Symposium
September 19, 2022: Dr. Jeannine Ott presents the “Evolution of surrogate light chain in tetrapods and the relationship between lengths of CDR H3 and VpreB tails” at the Texas A&M Postdoc Symposium.
Feeding Fish Article
June 14, 2022: Texas A&M Agrilife shares an article discussing the importance of research in aquaculture featuring Dr. Criscitiello, and collaborators Dr. Wu and Dr. Gatlin. Read the article here.
End of Spring Semester Lab Outing
August 12, 2022: A Lab lunch outing to celebrate the end of the Spring ’22 Semester and welcoming Casey to the group.
Dr. Criscitiello presents at AAI
May 10, 2022: Dr. Mike Criscitiello and colleagues at the American Association of Immunologists Conference in Portland, OR.
