Dr. Woodburn successfully defended his PhD, “Characterizing HIV-1 Infection of the Central Nervous System” on May 18.

Congratulations to David Lee, graduate student in the lab of Greg Scherrer, who received one of two 2022 Eshelman Institute Rankin Innovator Acceleration Awards!

Dr. Wick successfully defended their PhD, “Viral Hijacking of Ubiquitin Ligases: Lessons from Human Cytomegalovirus pUL145” on May 10.

The Song lab used optogenetic techniques to stimulate specific brain cells to increase production of neural stem cells and neurons relevant to memory and emotion processing in animal models, as published in Nature Neuroscience May 6.

Dr. Natalie Hewitt and Dr. Kevin Knight received their PhD hoods in a private hooding ceremony this past weekend. Our congratulations to both!

Dr. Saran successfully defended her PhD, “Bile Acid Transporters and Hepatotoxicity: Novel Mechanisms and in Vitro Models,” on April 19.

Dr. León successfully defended his PhD, “Enhancing the function and delivery of chimeric antigen receptor T-cells: Implications for treatment of solid tumors,” on April 4.

“Story of an Experiment – Cell Metabolic Analysis” – a video presentation with Eden Yitbarek Zewdie of the Earp Lab, filmed by Rika Khadria.

Dr. Hewitt successfully defended her PhD, “Modulation of Active State Dynamics by Catalytic Glutamine Mutations in Large G proteins,” on March 31.

Dr. Taylor Enrico successfully defended her PhD, “Control of Proliferation by the Ubiquitin Proteasome System,” on March 4.