Lab News

I just have to share this picture of Kevin.  He was so happy!  He had made a discovery and was bouncing down the hallway showing everyone in his path images he had captured on his cell phone.  Thought I'd save it for his thesis defense, but I can't resist sharing.  As rare as they are, great science days can carry you a long way!  Even when he was then told to shut down his experiments and read papers at home.

Congratulations to Mike for a successful K99 application and NOGA!  Super excited to see the science ahead of you!

NB: Photo from a time pre-COVID-19.  You can see our smiles though.  So young!

Happy to see the enclosure for the new Krios G4.  Looking good!

It was simply a glorious day.  We celebrated Shannon's F32 NOGA and Kevin taught everyone a thing or two about carbon dioxide, phase transitions, and the extraction of essential oils from a lime.  Don't mess with microbiologists!  

We are super proud of Shannon Kordus who has been awarded an NIH funded F32 fellowship to study C. difficile toxin secretion.  It is a tad harder to celebrate in the age of COVID-19 but we did it!  No stopping Shannon Kordus!!  And pardon the mess.  Reed is building a cryo-plunger.

Congrats to these awesome ladies for assembling an anaerobic chamber on their own.

See how happy they are?  We are about to start having some fun!!

So proud of Mike Sheedlo for being chosen as VI4 Post-doc of the Year.  And getting a chance to speak at the Annual Symposium.

Congratulations Mike!!

Chris Peritore Galve defended his Ph.D. yesterday with beautiful pictures of Gram-positive bacteria colonizing the vasculature of a tomato!  One step closer to joining our lab as a post-doc!

We are thrilled to welcome our newest lab member, Kateryna Nabukhotna!