News

2023

Alfred and Nate both gave selected talks at the Bacterial Locomotion and Signal Transduction conference in Charleston, SC.

Nate won a CeZAP grant.

Nate won third place for best oral presentation at Research Day..

Alfred received a Lewis Edward Goyette Graduate Fellowship.

Nate was awarded with the John Johnson award. for excellence in Microbiology/Molecular Biology.

Alfred won a TPS travel grant to attend the GRC/GRS STIM 2024.

2022

Richard gave a selected talk at the STIM GRS in Ventura, CA.

Alfred and Richard presented a poster at the STIM GRC in Ventura, CA.

Alfred won a TPS travel grant.

Alfred gave a talk at the virtual Receptor Fest.

Nate won a CeZAP grant.

2021

December:

Alfred won a TPS travel grant.

July:

Alfred gave a talk at the virtual Receptor Fest.

May:

Floricel presented her thesis defense seminar.

January:

Nate gave a selected talk at the virtual Bacterial Locomotion and Signal Transduction conference.

Hiba and Richard presented their research at the virtual Bacterial Locomotion and Signal Transduction conference.

2020

August:

Karl presented his thesis defense seminar.

February:

Tim gave an invited talk at the departmental Research Day.

Karl gave a selected talk at the TPS Symposium.

Tim presented his thesis defense seminar.

2019

August:

Rowan Wooldridge won the Fralin Undergraduate Research Fellowship Award 2019-2020.

Karl presented his research at the MPMI conference in Glasgow, Scottland.

Floricel presented her research at the Evergreen Meeting in Washington.

March:

Jiwoo Kim and Rowan Wooldridge won the SURF fellowship for summer 2019.

2018

July:

Katie presented her thesis defense seminar.

May:

Floricel is presenting her research orally at the Conference of Ford Fellows in Washington D.C.

March:

Rafael presented his thesis seminar.

2017

September:

Katie Broadway presented her research orally at the Cancer Research Conference of the Commonwealth of Virginia in Charlottesville and won an award in the session entitled “Novel approaches for cancer detection and treatment.”

July:

Timofey Arapov and Karl Compton presented their research orally at the  Receptor Fest at the University of Utah.

March:

Floricel Gonzalez is awarded with a Pre-doctoral Fellowship from the Ford Foundation.

Anna McCluskey is awarded with the  Stacey-Smith Research Award.

February:

Katie Broadway and Floricel Gonzalez are presenting their research at the Mid-Atlantic Microbial Pathogenesis Meeting in Wintergreen on February 12-14th.

Katie Broadway was an invited student speaker at the Departmental Research Day on February 4th.

Floricel Gonzalez won third place for her oral presentation at the Departmental Research Day on February 4th.

Karl Compton won second place for her oral presentation at the Departmental Research Day on February 4th.

January:

Tim Arapov and Karl Compton presented their research at the Bacterial Locomotion and Signal Transduction Conference XIV in New Orleans, January 15-20th.