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Drew gives award-winning talk MD-PhD Annual Student Conference!
Drew gives award-winning talk MD-PhD Annual Student Conference!
July 10, 2026
Drew's abstract was selected for a talk at the 40th annual MD-PhD Student Conference in Breckenridge, CO. He was awarded best presentation of the Immunology & Microbiology talks! Congrats, Drew!!
2026 Lab Party
2026 Lab Party
June 28, 2026
Current lab members and alumni reunited to eat grilled things. Zach attended by facetime. Keith filled us on life as an almost-M4. Gustavo regaled us with tales from the ol' enzyme mines.
Student grants from ISPB!
Student grants from ISPB!
June 25, 2026
Adam and Drew received student grants from the Illinois Society for Prevention of Blindness! Drew received the the Donna J. Dreiske award for best grant from a medical student.
We're grateful to ISPB for prioritizing support of basic research.
Zach publishes in IAI!
Zach publishes in IAI!
June 15, 2026
Zach's invesgitation of how each enzymatic activity of both ExoS and ExoT influence bacterial internalzation, and more importantly, what the bacteria then do after, was published in Infection and Immunity! TLDR: a population that remains T3SS-off population are the only contenders to invade epithelial cells. Once there, they remain T3SS-off and trapped in a vacuole, unless extracellular bacteria inject ExoS. Then they can, in turn, activate their own T3SS and hyper-replicate in the cytoplasm. Check it out here!
Serious about safety
Serious about safety
June 1, 2026
Abby was selected to be the new chair of the Institutional Biosafety Committee. To celebrate this occasion, we sprung for embroidered and well-designed lab coats from Genius Lab Gear. Great products that fit actual humans--thanks!
Millie and Abby attend the International Conference on Gram-Positive Pathgens
Millie and Abby attend the International Conference on Gram-Positive Pathgens
May 20, 2026
Millie and Abby were warmly welcomed despite coming from "a Pseudomonas lab" and learned a lot about what's going in the world of Staph aureus and other interesting Gram+ bugs! We also sheltered in place for a tornado warning during Nancy Freitag's opening keynote.
Welcome Ella!
Welcome Ella!
January 5, 2026
Ella Varn Hagen, a new MIIM Master's student, began a 1.5-year commitment to figure out those cytotoxic strains of P. aeruginosa once and for all! We wish her all the best and look forward to a two-fold increase of calico cat pictures on the lab slack.
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