Camila Beraldo joined the lab as a postdoc. She recently completed her PhD at the University of Helsinki in Finland working with Anne Duplouy on symbiosis and the microbiome. She will work on evolutionary divergence in immune defense between species at KU.
Jessie Perlmutter (postdoc) leaves to start her own lab at the University of Virginia
Jessie presenting her work at the KINBRE meeting in 2024
Jessie started at KU in March of 2020 after an incredibly successful graduate degree at Vanderbilt with Seth Bordenstein. She continued to do great things at KU including…
getting her own funding: an NSF PRFB and an NIH K99!
publishing: papers in PLOS Genetics, MBE, BMC Biology and more!
outreach and community building: Jessie founded the Kansas Postdoc Outreach Program (KPOP) and was a leader in KU Center for Genomics efforts including the annual Symposium.
mentoring: Jessie was an exceptional mentor to others in the lab serving as almost a second advisor and a good sounding board for me
the lab social organizer: she organized outings (Ren Fest), book clubs, the often disappointing lab trivia team, and more.
Jessie will be missed dearly, but we are looking forward to seeing what she does in her own lab. She is joining the Department of Biology at the University of Virginia and will work on various aspects of symbiosis, Wolbachia and immune defense. Good luck Jessie!
Taiye Adewumi passed his qualifying exam!
Congratulations Taiye!
Presenting Dr. Kent Mulkey!
Kent’s defense
Congratulations Kent on a successful PhD defense! Kent defended his dissertation in March 2025. His work paved the way for new research on DNA virus/host interaction.
Several pictures of lab events, talks and posters...
This includes the 2024 KU Center for Genomics Symposium (Nilanjan was runner-up for best talk!), a few dinners, the KINBRE symposium in January 2024, and Paul throwing axes.
Paul gets a job!
Postdoc Paul Ginsberg is starting a faculty position at Ottawa University (the one in Kansas) in Fall 2024! Congratulations Paul!
Maggie's defense
Maggie Schedl defended her Masters thesis in May 2024. Maggie worked on establishing DiNV (a nudivirus) as a lab experimental system. She did amazing work and we will miss her very much!
