Cole’s going away party (great to have significant others participating)
Michael’s going away potluck (who knew that our lab has such awesome cooks!)
Over the summer, we’ve had a couple of bittersweet parties, where we celebrated achievements, welcomed new PhD students, and sent off two of our lab members. Michael Graves is leaving us to attend medical school in Iowa, and Cole Anderson is leaving to take a scientist position in the military. We share their excitement about their new positions, but are sad to see them go.
We welcomed several new faces. Owen Jensen and Daniel Labuz are joining us as PhD students in the Molecular Biology program. Our new postdocs are Taliman Afroz (she had completed her PhD on E. coli sugar utilization pathways in Chase Beisel’s lab at NC State), and Ben Brintz (he completed his PhD on N-Mixture Models in Lisa Madsen’s group at Oregon State).
We also celebrated the start of a couple of R01 grants that we received from the NIAID: “Estimating cholera burden with cross-sectional immunologic data,” and “Development of clinical decision tools for management of diarrhea of children in high and low resource settings.”