News
Keep up with the latest about the Department! News and events of interest to current, future, and former students/postdocs/staff/faculty are featured in the UNC Microbiology and Immunology LinkedIn Group.
Mike Cohen elected to the Institute of Medicine
M&I faculty member Mike Cohen (J. Herbert Bate Distinguished Professor of Medicine and Associate Vice Chancellor Global Health) is one of 70 new members elected to the Institute of Medicine (IOM)...
International scientific collaboration: A video interview with Dirk Dittmer and Blossom Damania
Blossom and Dirk discuss a new initiative of the Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center...
Baric and Heise Labs: Viral infections in the context of natural genetic diversity
Ralph Baric and Mark Heise have been awarded a five-year, $21.4M NIAID grant entitled "System immunogenetics of biodefense pathogens in the Collaborative Cross..."
Rawls Lab: Gut Microbes Make for Fattier Fish
That’s the title of a preview article for a new Cell Host & Microbe paper, “Microbiota Regulate Intestinal Absorption and Metabolism of Fatty Acids in the Zebrafish,” from co-corresponding authors John Rawls and Steven Farber...
Jobin Lab: Changes in microbiota may lead to colorectal cancer
A study recently published in Science illustrates important relationships between inflammation, gut microbiota, and tumorigenesis...
Ting Lab: Inhibition of inflammation via novel NLR protein
In the August 5th edition of Nature Immunology, Jenny Ting’s group reports the identification of a novel NLR protein that inhibits an important inflammatory pathway…
Margolis lab: Understanding HIV latency
David Margolis’s group, in collaboration with Alan Perelson’s lab in Los Alamos, has been trying to understand the persistence of HIV infection despite treatment with antiretroviral drugs...
Tisch Lab: New antibody therapy may reverse progression of diabetes in NOD mice
Roland Tisch's group has discovered an immunotherapy that appears to be able to reverse the development of Type I diabetes in mice...
Damania Lab finds target in metabolic pathway for non-Hodgkin lymphoma
Researchers in the Department of Microbiology & Immunology have identified possible targets in the PI3K/AKT/mTOR metabolic pathway that could be used in the fight against non-Hodgkin lymphoma...
Ankunda Kariisa awarded ASM Robert D. Watkins Graduate Research Fellowship
Congratulations to Ankunda Kariisa, a graduate student in Rita Tamayo’s lab, on being selected by the American Society for Microbiology as a recipient of the highly competitive Robert D. Watkins Graduate Research Fellowship...
