December 2023: Rachel publishes in Microlife.
11/6/2025
Rachel’s review, written in collaboration with the Hubert Hilbi and his student Simone Vormittag, “Pathogen vacuole membrane contact sites – close encounters of the fifth kind” is available on line:…
September 2023: Eleanor is awarded an Ingrassia Research Grant
11/6/2025
This grant will fund Eleanor’s research in our lab for the fall semester. Congratulations Eleanor!
11/6/2025
Our lab relocated to a newly renovated space with windows and an attached cell culture suite!
July 2023: Welcome Haley Adcox
11/6/2025
We welcome postdoctoral fellow Haley Adcox, who is joining us from the Carlyon Lab at VCU.
March 2023: Farewell to Eugenia
11/6/2025
Eugenia will start as a research specialist in the Bazzini Lab at the Stowers Institute in Kansas. Thank you, Eugenia, for all you have done for the lab. We are…
March 2023: Eugenia publishes in mSphere
11/6/2025
Congratulations to Eugenia. Her latest publication “Homologues of the Chlamydia trachomatis and Chlamydia muridarum Inclusion Membrane Protein IncS Are Interchangeable for Early Development but Not for Inclusion Stability in the…
March 2023: CBRS Meeting in Omaha, NE
11/6/2025
Eugenia gave a talk, Forrest a short talk, and Samantha presented a poster. Haley, soon to be lab member, came along to get her first Chlamydia infusion. Lots of fun…
February 2023: Mid-Atlantic Microbial Pathogenesis Meeting
11/6/2025
Eugenia gave a talk. Samantha and Forrest presented posters. Eleanor attended her first scientific meeting. All got a chance to meet their scientific Aunts Tamara O’Connor and Kim Davis, as…
January 2023: UVA Infectious Diseases Day
11/6/2025
Samantha, Eugenia, and Forrest presented a poster. Samantha won best poster prize!









