News + Good Things
Post-Holiday Lab Party 2020
January 18, 2020: Post-Holiday Lab Party with the team and alumni before the start of the spring semester!
Way to go Kaitlyn for her B.S. in Environmental Studies with a minor in Oceanography!
December, 2019: Way to go Kaitlyn for her B.S. in Environmental Studies with a minor in Oceanography! And thanks for staying on as a full-time Research Assistant with the lab before grad school! Whoop!
Christian’s White Coat Ceremony 2019
August 2019: Christian ceremoniously receives her graduate-school lab coat. Congratulations, Christian!
Hear Mike Talk Cow Antibodies on The Texas Standard NPR Show
July 1st, 2019: Could Cow Antibodies Prevent HIV?
Dr. Sebastian Fugmann Visits CVM, VTPB, and Our Lab
June 12th, 2015: With the support of Dr. Tiffany Yu and the Taiwanese Ministry of Science and Technology, Dr. Sebastian Fugmann visited the lab and gave a great talk in VTPB on the evolution of immunoglobulin gene diversification mechanisms in deuterostomes. He also got to reunite with his old Yale pal, Koichi.
Dr. Pierette Appasamy Visits Our Lab
May 19th, 2015: Dr. Pierette Appasamy of Chatham University won a grant to visit us and learn our Xenopus larval thymectomy technique. I think we learned much more from her!
Celebrating A Birthday and A Visit
October 28th, 2014: We celebrate Thad’s quarter of a century and Aldo’s visit with us from the University of Sonora.
Remembering Dr. Ashley Peterson
September 9th, 2014: We celebrated the life of our lab mate, colleague, fallen Aggie, and friend, Dr. Ashley Peterson, with a dinner before she was honored at Silver Taps.
Mike Honored in Brazil; A New Collaboration Begins
June 18th, 2014: Mike was honored by the Instituto de Ciencias Biologicas at the Universidade Federal do Para in Brazil. We are very excited about our new collaboration with Leo Sena (far left) and others studying the immunogenetics of Amazonian aquatic mammals!
Thad Wins Travel Award
June 2nd, 2014: Thad won a travel award to present at the North American Comparative Immunology Workshop in Albuquerque! Here he is with our longtime friend and collaborator Yuko Ohta from the University of Maryland.