We have one new PhD student: Ellie who joined the lab!
Congratulations Hannah and Christine!
Congratulations to our graduate students, Hannah and Christine for passing their qualification exams.
Congratulations Jon!
Jonathan Budzik, a Cox lab postdoctoral fellow, took part in the challenge to design a low-cost ventilator during the recent Covid-19 Hackathon! The team received a prize from the Chan Zuckerberg Biohub to invest in bringing their projects to fruition. Jon’s diverse team members were Eric Bennett, from Frontier Bio, Winnie Liang, from Neptune Fluid Flow Systems, environmental scientist Michael Salisbury, and Annesya Banerjee and Achal Nilhani, who are both students in Electrical Engineering from Jadavpur University.
Congratulations Rita and Kelsey!
Rita McCall, a Cox lab graduate student, has just earned an NSF Graduate Research Fellowships Program Award for her proposed research project: “Uncovering the regulatory network that drives morphological fate switching in Mycobacterium avium”! Kelsey Hern, a Cox lab graduate rotation student, has also earned an honorable mention for this award for her proposed project: “Investigating the Role of Cyclic-di-GMP in Host-Phage Interactions”!
New Publication!
Our newest paper “Dynamic post-translational modification profiling of M. tuberculosis-infected primary macrophages” has been published on eLIFE!
New Paper on eLIFE!
Our newest paper “Cas9+ conditionally-immortalized macrophages as a tool for bacterial pathogenesis and beyond” has been published on eLIFE!
Congratulations Kelsey!
Kelsey Talkington, a Cox lab undergraduate research student, has been granted the “Outstanding Immunologist” Award for the MCB Class of 2019!
Congratulations to Jeff Cox for his election to the American Academy of Microbiology!
New Paper in Molecular Cell!
Our newest paper “An Mtb-Human Protein-Protein Interaction Map Identifies a Switch between Host Antiviral and Antibacterial Responses” has been published in Molecular Cell!
Welcome Nick and Michael!
We have two new PhD students: Nick Garelis and Michael Cronce joined the lab!