Undergrad Researcher Ella Reithinger in the Agaisse lab at MIC won first place at the 41st Annual Richard D. Katz Distinguished Majors Biology Symposium! Recently graduating from the University of Virginia, she obtained a B.S. in Biology with highest distinction. She will soon be attending the University of Cambridge as a Rotary Global Grant Scholar to pursue an MPhil in Population Health Sciences. In the Agaisse lab, her research project aimed to elucidate the role and regulation of Shigella flexneri virulence proteins, such as IcsA and IpgB1.

Dr. Steven Rolland won the Audience Choice Award for the Lighting Talk Competition at the 2025 Postdoc Research Symposium organized by the Postdoctoral Association of UVA in collaboration with Virginia Tech on 21^st May, 2025. His talk entitled ‘Colon Under Attack: Investigating how Shigella Invades and Spreads’ explained his research findings on cell-to-cell spread in host-pathogen interactions which was the most voted for by the audience.

Agaisse lab welcomes two of its newest members, Ms Mahua Mandal who is lab’s manager and Dr Songyu Dong who is our newest postdoc!