Science Everywhere is coming April 22nd!

Our lab will be hosting a lab tour and virus-related demos and activities for Science Everywhere.  We hope to see you there! See what’s happening here.

Adamson students Kirsten Mitchell and Kate Tirrell with their presentation

Our Undergrads took 3rd place at the Expo!

Two of our lab’s Undergrad researchers, Kirsten Mitchell and Kate Tirrell, presented a poster of their work at the 17th annual Carolyn and Norwood Thomas Undergraduate Research and Creativity Expo, held on April 6. They took home the 3rd place prize for their presentation! Congrats to Kirsten and Kate.

Students to present!

Our lab has students presenting this Spring at the Thomas Undergraduate Research and Creativity Expo and at the Graduate School’s Research and Creativity Showcase of Scholarship.  We can’t wait to showcase our research!

New funding to study EBV’s impact upon cellular metabolism

We’ve been awarded funding through UNCG’s Internal Award program for our research study “Epstein-Barr virus upregulates glycolysis to promote viral replication and persistence.”  Alexis will be carrying out this project and we are excited to get started!

Former students at ASV2022!

It was so wonderful to see and talk with my former MS students Pascaline Kohio and Steven Moran.  They are currently doing a postdoc / getting ready to finish their PhD program (respectively).  They did great jobs presenting their work and I’m so glad to see them thriving in the… Continue reading…

Great time at ASV2022!

ASV2022 was held in beautiful Madison, Wisconsin.  It was great to see everyone in person and hear about all of the exciting research going on!  And cheese curds were a definite plus.

Accepted manuscript!

Just got word that our paper “Epstein-Barr virus lytic replication activates and is dependent upon MAPK-interacting kinase 1/2 in a cell-type dependent manner” was accepted for publication in Virology.  Congrats to my student co-authors Dana Jeffus, Alexis Davis, and Eva Greengrove!  This paper, containing 12 figures that include a total… Continue reading…