| 4/17/2015 |
Undergraduates Jonathan Harper and Germine Alfonse present their work at the Pitt Biology Undergraduate research sypmposium. Link to pictures. |
| 4/02/2015 |
Ph.D. student Greg
Wier successfully defended his thesis today!! Congrats Dr.
Wier!! |
| 3/10/2015 |
Ph.D.
Student Greg Wier's paper on orthogonal protein labeling in Toxoplasma gondii
comes out in mBio. In it he shows how he cleverly engineered Toxoplasma gondii
to express a mutant methionyl tRNA synthetase that can orthogonally
incorporate a non-canonical amino acid ONLY into Toxoplasma proteins
during infection. Congrats Greg!! Link
to open access article. |
| 2/13/2015 |
PhD student Elizabeth English's review is
published in Parasite
Immunology. Congrats Elise!! Link
to open access article. |
| 1/16/2015 |
Undergraduate researcher Preethi Sankaran
joins
the lab. She will be working with fellow undergraduate Jeffrey
Danielson on the effects of MAF1 expression and host mitochondria
manipulation on parasite stress sensitivity. Welcome! |
| 1/05/2015 |
Hot Metal Bridge Rotation student Krystal
Flakes joins the lab for a semester-long rotation. Welcome! |
| 11/10/2014 |
PhD student Elizabeth English's review is
tentatively accepted (with very minor revisions) in Parasite Immunology.
Congrats! |
| 11/10/2014 |
Rotation student Rachel Coombs (Pitt MCDB
program) joins the lab. She will be working on locus
expansion
and diversification and its impact on virulence. Welcome! |
| 10/20/2014 |
Katelyn Walzer's paper accepted in Eukaryotic Cell!!
Congrats to
Katie (now doing her PhD at Duke University) and her other Boyle Lab
co-authors, current and former: Rachel Dam, Elizabeth
English,
Greg Wier, Ananth Srinivasan and Adair Borges. Also congrats to our
collaborators at the USDA (JP Dubey) and the Federal Research Institute
for Animal Health in Germany (Daland C Herrmann and Gereon
Schares). Link
to abstract. |
| 9/07/2014 |
Rotation student Dillon Kunkle (Pitt MVM
program)
joints the lab! He will be working on comparing the host
response
to N. caninum
and T. gondii.
Welcome! |
| 8/15/2014 |
Rotation students Katherine Wozniak (Pitt
MCDB
program), Uchenna Mbawuiki (Pitt Hot Metal Bridge Program) join the
lab! Katherine will be working on locus expansion and
diversification and its impact on T.
gondii virulence, and Uchenna will be working on the
importance
of individual MAF1 paralogs on mitochondrial association with the T. gondii
parasitophorous vacuole.
Welcome! |
| 07/26/2014 |
Lab
picnic to say goodbye to Ananth and
Adair a success! Link
to pictures. |
| 07/09/2014 |
Greg
Wier's abstract chosen for a talk at MPM 2014.
Abstracts from lab
members Adair Borges, Ananth Srinivasan and Elizabeth English accepted
for poster presentations. |
| 05/2014 |
Jon
Harper, Adair Borges, Ananth Srinivasan and Germine Alfonse all get
summer funding from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute Undergraduate
Research program!!! |
| 04/29/2014 |
Collaborative
manuscript on Toxoplasma-driven
host mitochondrial recruitment is published in PLoS Biology.
Link to article. |
| 02/04/2014 |
Manuscript
on gene duplication and locus diversification, and it's role in
defining closely-related parasite species, is published in mBio. Congrats
to Yaw
Adomako-Ankomah,
Greg Wier, Adair Borges and Hannah Wand! Link
to article. |
| 08/01/2013 |
Adair
Borges, an Undergraduate researcher, receives a Goldwater Scholarship
to fund her work in the lab for the 2013 Academic year. Read
more
here. |
| 04/30/2013 |
Katelyn
Walzer's paper published in PNAS! Link
to
article. |
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