We have several new people in the lab this semester and finally were able take a lab photo with most of us. Missing from the photo are undergrads Tamara-Doubra Anarose-Thomas, Brook Anaya, Jordanne Paxton, Emma Knoles, and Murtaza Shoaib.
Several hires in biology at KU
The departments of Molecular Biosciences and Ecology and Evolutionary Biology are both hiring. The positions are:
Evolutionary Genomics: http://www.employment.ku.edu/academic/20324BR
Immunology: http://www.employment.ku.edu/academic/20319BR
Infectious Disease: http://www.employment.ku.edu/academic/20320BR
A few words about these. Genomics is an exciting area of growth at KU. We recently established the KU Center for Genomics (http://genomics.ku.edu/ - site still under construction), bringing together genomics researchers from across campus. These two hires, as well as a recent hire in human genomics, means we will have a great cohort of junior faculty in genomics. Likewise, microbiology has been an area of growth over the last few years and these two hires add to that strength.
Kent Mulkey passed his qualifying exam. Congratulations Kent!
Kent is working on nudivirus infection dynamics in Drosophila. He’s worked hard to develop systems to study this new virus in both hosts and cell culture. Congratulations Kent!
Kervens Accilien joins the lab as a graduate student
Kervens is from Port-au-prince, Haiti and completed his undergraduate degree at Minnesota State University in Moorhead, MN (2020). His graduate work will focus on evolutionary biochemistry of antimicrobial peptides.
The lab bids Tom Hill a fond farewell
Tom is off to a position at NIH Frederick as a Bioinformatics Analyst. He started in the lab in August 2016 right when the lab started. He will be missed!
Brielle McKee joins the lab for a rotation
Brielle is a first year graduate student from Kansas. Her rotation project will involve working on genes that show similar influence on immune defense in flies and worms even though flies and worms don’t share canonical immune pathways. She will be in the lab from November to mid-December. Welcome Brielle!
Kervens and Vedant try out the lab as rotation students
Kervens Accillien and Vedant Jain are two first year students rotating in the lab for the next several weeks. Kervens comes from Minnesota and is working on in vitro aspects of antimicrobial peptides. Vedant comes from Pittsburgh State in Kansas and is working on meiotic drive. Welcome to both!