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Alison and Sara Graduate

1/9/2025

May 2024. Two newly minted PhDs! Congratulations to Alison and Sara!  

James Boehlke joins the lab

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…

Feb 2024

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…

Jan 2024

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…

Dec 2023

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.…

July 2023

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…

July 2023

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…

May 2023

8/23/2023

The first PhD graduation for the Cliffe lab. Congratulations to Dr. Sean Cuddy!!!!