News
Congratulations to postdocs Nicole Ponde and Yang Li for receiving travel awards to attend the 2022 International Cytokine & Interferon Society conference in Sept. Additional kudos to Yang for being invited to give a talk.
Gaffen Lab welcomes summer student Samy Arunkumar and rotation student Kenta Yamamoto
Sarah Gaffen and Partha Biswas publish perspective article on how gut fungal commensals promote social behavior in mice. “Fungi Make Fun Guys”
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1931312822000956?via%3Dihub
Biswas Lab publishes new Cell Host Microbe paper about neutrophil sensing of fungal infections, with input from Gaffen lab members
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1931312822001032?via%3Dihub
Congrats to former student Chunsheng Zhou and the Naglik lab for new Science Signaling paper and journal cover
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/scisignal.abj6915
Martinna de Bertolini, DDS, PhD, joins the Gaffen Lab
The Gaffen Lab welcomes new postdoc, Dr. Shachi Vyas
Sarah Gaffen and Partha Biswas receive new joint R01 grant from NIH to study RNA binding proteins in autoimmune kidney disease
Dr. Gaffen selected as a Fellow of the AAAS
https://www.pitt.edu/pittwire/features-articles/american-association-advancement-science-fellows-2021