A new Doctor is in the house! and a new doctoral candidate, too! and Danny remains a true champ!
Members of the lab have been thriving in very public ways of late. For example, the marvelous Jackie successfully defended her Ph.D. this past week!! Photos coming to the gallery soon. And the fantastic Liana recently defended her dissertation proposal, so she became an official doctoral candidate! And last but definitely not least, one of the undergraduate researchers in the lab, the awesome Danny Navarrete, has been profiled by the university to celebrate his scientific achievements thus far, and the many more to come. Congratulations and thanks to you all!
Jackie’s newsworthy mice
Our lab’s work on worms and germs in rewilded mice, especially a huge experiment led by Jackie, has been getting a lot of TLC lately! For example, Princeton’s Office of the Dean for Research featured a synopsis of our city mouse-country mouse comparisons on the university website. Further afield, the work has been featured in scientific journals such as Lab Animal and, most recently, in a news feature in PNAS.
Making sense of worm-malaria co-infections
Our collaborative work on human worm-malaria co-infections in Indonesia has recently been featured (together with awesome custom artwork!) on Princeton’s website and subsequently on The Franklin Institute website and in science media in the Asia-Pacific region. We found that competition among parasite species for red blood cells is an important determinant of the outcome of these co-infections. Very well done to Sarah for leading the charge on this project!
Jackie is in full swing
Jackie has undertaken two major projects to explore nematode-microparasite interactions in hosts in natural populations. Despite the awesome challenges, she is persevering. So watch this space for developments in the coming year!
Welcome to new arrivals
2015 has brought some new faces to the Graham Group: we are delighted to welcome postdocs Sarah Budischak and Micaela Martinez and graduate student Ed Schrom!!! Each brings amazing new insights and skills to the group.
Now he’s a Jolly Good Fellow!
Many congratulations to Romain Garnier, who has just been awarded an AXA Fellowship! We will miss him, come autumn, but will console ourselves in the knowledge that this move will take him closer to world centers of cheese, whisky & sheep diversity… and of course represents an exciting career move too. Well done, Romain!
Hooray for our very own hackathon winners and collaborators, Romain and Quentin
These amazing fellows subsisted for days on piles of pizza, donuts and electronics to generate a prize-winning mousetrap at HackPrinceton 2015.
Congratulations Dr. Jenni!
Jenni Peterson successfully defended her Ph.D. yesterday. Many many congratulations, and all best wishes in the mad world of epidemiological modeling, Jenni!
NSF Research Coordination Network on Infectious Disease Evolution Across Scales has launched
Andrea is delighted to announce the launch of the NSF-funded RCN on the evolution of infectious diseases. Please check it out, and join the juggernaut!
Congratulations, Dr. Ann!
Ann Thomas Tate successfully defended her Ph.D. last week. Many congratulations, Ann, and all best wishes for the future! We will miss you!