1/9/2025
May 2024. Two newly minted PhDs! Congratulations to Alison and Sara!
1/9/2025
April 2024. James Boehlke joins the lab as a graduate student. James will be working on RNA binding proteins in HSV latent infection
Congrats to Alison on a successful PhD defense
1/9/2025
April 2024. Alison successfully defended her PhD on "Heterogeneous Polycomb Silencing of Incoming Herpes Simplex Virus Genomes During Productive Infection". Congrats Alison!
Sara wins the Peach Award for outstanding graduate student in BIMS!
1/9/2025
April 2024. The hugestest congratulations to Sara Dochnal for being award the UVA BIMS Michael J. Peach Outstanding Graduate Student award! This award is given to a graduate student who…
1/9/2025
Our paper on the targeting of incoming HSV-1 genomes by Polycomb silencing mechanism was published in mBio. Congratulation to first author Allison Francois. This study uses a new method to…
1/9/2024
Our paper on the role of the host cell stress transcription factor, c-Jun, in HSV-1 reactivation has been published in Journal of Virology (read more here). While there are multiple…
1/9/2024
Congratulations to Sara Dochnal on very successfully defending her PhD. Throughout her graduate studies, Sara has developed a novel model of HSV-1 latency and reactivation using a recombinant "Stayput-GFP" virus.…
8/23/2023
Anna gave a talk at the International DEEP-DV Summer School 2023 in Hamburg and got to hear about some really amazing science being performed as part of the DEEP-DV consortium…
8/23/2023
Sara Dochnal gave a spotlight talk at her first in-person International Herpesvirus Workshop in Missoula, Montana. Plus she was awarded a Merit Award. The lab is super proud of all…
8/23/2023
The first PhD graduation for the Cliffe lab. Congratulations to Dr. Sean Cuddy!!!!
