Lab news:
August 2022
July 2022
- Karen receives a receiving the American Association of Hispanics in Higher Education (AAHHE) Graduate Student Fellowship 2023. Congrats!
- Ho Suk joins the lab as a new graduate student. Welcome!
July 2022
- Karen received a travel award from the Graduate school. Congrats!!
- We got a new R21 grant! Now we will be repurposing viral protein entry mechanisms for gene delivery.
- Eva received a travel award for the Protein Society meeting
- Laiba is joining the lab as part of the Infectious Disease department. Welcome!
- Dr. Amruta Narayanappa is joining the lab as a new research professional.
- MHM is joining PBS and our lab as a new graduate student. Welcome MHM!
- We are saying good bye to MK. Good luck on your new path! We will miss you.
December 2021
Lab holiday party
Lab holiday party
August 2021
- M H M and Fredejah are rotating in the lab. Welcome!
- Two of our papers are out, great job Karen and Yogesh!
- Gonzalez KJ1, Strauch EM#, "Decreased vaccine protection of egg-based influenza vaccine in the elderly could be associated with a non-hemagglutinin focused immunity" (J Clin Invest. 2021 Aug 2;131(15):e151732. doi: 10.1172/JCI151732
- Narkhede YB*, Gonzalez KJ*, Strauch EM#, Targeting viral surface proteins through structure-based design (Viruses 2021, 13(7), 1320; https://doi.org/10.3390/v13071320)
July 2021
Cookie bake off competition
Cookie bake off competition
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March 2021
- The preprint for our scaffold database and sampling the small protein fold space is out!
- Ryan's 3MR showcase video on the stalk flu vaccine design. Check it out!
- Qingfa joins the lab, welcome!
- Karen passes her qualifying exam with flying colors!
October - December 2020
- Ehsan, Patrick, Brittaney, Qingfa and Shufang are rotating through the lab.
- Eva gave a talk at St. Jude's children's hospital
September 2020
- The Science paper using our scaffolds to inhibit Covid-19 is out! We have our own versions using different mechanisms for neutralization in the pipeline as well! More to come soon.
- We are excited to announce that we received extra funding for our Covid-19 projects through FastGrants and Emerging Ventures!
- Eva gave a talk at the Cell biology seminar series at UGA.
May 2020
- Dr. Yi Lei is joining the lab as a new research technician. We are excited to have you on board!
- Spotlight article on our work on Covid-19
April 2020
Our work with Chris West's lab got published in Biochemistry. Congrats everyone and great job Karen!
February 2020
- Eva gave a talk at the "22nd International Conference on Emerging Infectious Diseases in the Pacific Rim", February 24-27, 2020 in Bangkok, Thailand. Exciting times to be traveling. Covid-19 took over many conference topics.
- Our flu vaccine centers looks now official, check out the link
- WinterRosettaCon in NYC! Eva is giving one of the keynotes. Karen and Raulia are presenting their work. Great posters!
January 2020
The new year has started! We are looking forward to an exciting new year.
We have two new members joining the lab, welcome Aditi and Ryan. Aditi is joining the lab and PBS as a new graduate student and Ryan is joining as an undergraduate researcher.
The new year has started! We are looking forward to an exciting new year.
We have two new members joining the lab, welcome Aditi and Ryan. Aditi is joining the lab and PBS as a new graduate student and Ryan is joining as an undergraduate researcher.
November 2019
Our paper on high throughput screening of a diverse set of proteins for their on- and off targets is out!
Our paper on high throughput screening of a diverse set of proteins for their on- and off targets is out!
October 2019
this just happened...
this just happened...
lab lunch at Cali's and Tito's!!
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September 2019
April 2019
March 2019
February 2019
an eventful month!
- Aditi is rotating in the lab!
- the big influenza grant went through! Looking forward to 7 years of exciting research with an amazing group of people.
- Abby and Mark from the ILS program are rotating in the lab.
- A new post-doc joins the lab! Welcome Manikandan!
- RosettaCon time! Karen, Raulia, Isaac and Eva are in Leavenworth, WA for some exciting science!
- Isaac Torres joins the lab; he received the Bioinformatics fellowship for his Ph.D. program. Welcome Isaac!
- the lab is growing exponentially! Welcome everyone, we a excited to have you join!
- Dr. Kyle Noble is joining as a research technician! Welcome!
- Dr. Raulia Syrlybaeva is joining us as a postdoctoral fellow. Welcome Raulia!
- Karen Juliana Gonzalez Restrepo is joining the lab! Welcome Karen.
- Vanderbilt's Modeling Immunity symposium has been a fun event. Eva gave a talk on "Protein Design vs Pathogen."
April 2019
- We are joining the Institute of Bioinformatics!
- Eva gave a seminar at the Center for Vaccines and Immunology.
March 2019
- Eva gave an invited talk at the "Festival of Biologics" in San Diego
February 2019
an eventful month!
- Eva gave a seminar at the Institute of Bioinformatics: "Designer Proteins: Targeting protein pathogen interactions"
- Autumn, Jayant and Kaitlyn are joining the lab.
- The lab receives another NIH grant! This time an R21 for redesigning and screening for immunogenicity of proteins.
- The cell sorter finally arrived!
January 2019
- Eva gives and invited talk on at the annual PEPTALK meeting; this time in San Diego
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December 2018
Shakers, PCR machine, electroporators, centrifuges and tissue culture room are all set up. We made our first batch of proteins. FPLC got delivered. The lab is set up! |
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October 2018
September 2018
We are setting up the lab at the University of Georgia. We are in the South Pharmacy Building on the third floor now. Also, Dr. Rhythm Shah is joining as a research technician/professional. Welcome Rhythm!
- Two rotations students are about to join the lab for their 3rd rotation! Welcome Noah and Jiachen.
- Eva gives a seminar at Emory's Biochemistry seminar series.
September 2018
We are setting up the lab at the University of Georgia. We are in the South Pharmacy Building on the third floor now. Also, Dr. Rhythm Shah is joining as a research technician/professional. Welcome Rhythm!
May 2018
many exciting things are happening this month:
- The lab receives its first R01 for the design of antivirals and immunogens targeting the Paramyxoviruses
- and it is final, we are moving to the University of Georgia! where we will be joining the Department of Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Sciences.
- Luana receives the Don Basset Award. Congratulations!!
March 2018
The lab receives a generous award from the Washington Research Foundation