Meggie presented her work at the T32 cancer retreat at Lake Arrowhead, while her apprentice Michael presented at the “Excellence in Research” undergrad symposium on campus. Great job representing the lab #teamcancer!
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Jessie presents at the MMG seminar series
Jessie did an excellent job last week presenting at our Departmental seminar series. She is seeking to identify the molecular explanation for human rickettsiosis by identifying antimicrobials that restrict Rickettsia in animal reservoirs but not in human cells. She’s established a number of collaborations on campus including with Nir Drayman and is bringing a number Read More…
The lab celebrates March Madness with spicy wings
With their March Madness brackets completed, the lab takes a trip to BWWs to eat some spicy Blazin’ wings. Some handled it well (Jessie, Meggie), while others might have struggled (Thomas, Ben, Alejandro). Good luck with your picks!
Lab holiday party 2023 – the cookie decorating competition gets the creative juices flowing!
Happy Holidays from the lab! We had a delicious panoply of food from around the globe, perhaps a new lab tradition. Congrats Jessie on winning the cookie decorating competition, and to everyone else, all of whom did a much better job than me. Also congrats to whoever ended up with the raw potato in the Read More…
MMG holiday party 2023 – the lab wins an unexpected prize!
The 2023 MMG holiday party was a hit this year, it felt exciting with lots of new folks in the department and with Dr. Hertel being appointed our Department Chair during the party! There was a baking competition (somehow all the cheesecakes won top spots) and a lab ornament decoration. Our Rickettsia-themed ornament got an…unexpected Read More…
First paper from the lab submitted!
Congratulations Michelle and all the co-authors! We celebrated with specialty donuts – yum. Now comes the task of publishing, Thomas will try to keep his blood pressure low. Check out the preprint here, coming to a journal near you (hopefully) soon: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.10.02.56 The lab celebrated Michael’s birthday, and we all reminisce about the times when Read More…
First paper from the lab on BioRxiv!!!
We’re very excited to share the first paper from the lab “Host glutathione is required for Rickettsia parkeri to properly septate, avoid ubiquitylation, and survive in macrophages” now available online as a preprint on BioRxiv! https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.10.02.560592v1 This project has been spearheaded by our technician Michelle Sun, congratulations Michelle! The title pretty much says it all, Read More…
The fall quarter starts – welcome back!
To all the new CMB and other graduate students, welcome to UCI! The sun might be setting earlier but don’t worry you can still head to the beach for another few (12) months. Journal club this week was a paper from Andrew Olive’s lab on CRISPR screening in macrophages, which Jessie is optimizing and we’re Read More…
Lab lunch for Camille’s last day
The lab visits Paradise Dynasty for happy hour dumplings for Camille’s last day of rotating. The cheese dumpling is a surprising hit. Best of luck in med school this year Camille!
The lab’s first Angel’s game!
Even though the team lost, we had a good time and only got minor sunburns.