News and Events
It is our pleasure to announce that Sherin Rouhani (from Vic Engelhard's laboratory), has been selected as the the 2015 MIC Outstanding Student, and will be the MIC Graduate Program's nominee…
CJ Anderson, Kendall lab, has been awarded the Richard and Mary Finkelstein Student Travel Grant!
CJ Anderson, from the Kendall lab, has been awarded the prestigious Richard and Mary Finkelstein Student Travel Grant to present his research on Salmonella pathogenesis at the American Society for Microbiology…
David Brautigan Fund for MCB Student Travel
A hearty congratulations to Dr. David Brautigan, Program Leader of SIG, who recently was honored by Brown University with a fund for student travel named in his honor: the “David…
Laura Gonyar, a former PhD student in the Kendall Lab was selected as the winner of the 2015 Robert R. Wagner Prize for Outstanding Research in Microbiology Laura received the Wagner…
Search for inexpensive, accessible test for Ebola
MIC Professor Daniel Engel, PhD and structural biologist Zygmunt S. Derewenda, PhD search for inexpensive, accessible test for Ebola. "Derewenda and Engel recently made a breakthrough in Ebola research when…
UVA Team IDs effect of chronic stress on fat cells
MIC/Cell Signaling Center Researcher Lifu Wang in the David Brautigan Lab (UVA Cell Signaling Center) and team ID effect of chronic stress on fat cells. "The findings provide valuable insight…
MIC Students present at Mid-Atlantic Microbial Pathogenesis Meeting
MIC students Laura Gonyar, Emily Billings and Carrie Cowardin and postdoc Richard Juneau presented at the Mid-Atlantic Microbial Pathogenesis Meeting, January 25-27. This meeting occurs every 2 years and showcases…
School of Medicine Awards 2014: Dean’s Award for Excellence in Team Science Research
Congratulations to Kodi S. Ravichandran, Douglas A. Bayliss, Norbert Leitinger, Brant Isakson, Mark Yeager, Ulrike M. Lorenz, and Bimal Desai for winning the distinguished Dean’s Award for Excellence in Team…
SOM 2014 Awards for MIC Faculty
School of Medicine Awards 2014: Dean’s Award for Excellence in Teaching Alison Criss, PhD received the Dean’s Award for Excellence in Teaching! Information about the award can be found here.…
Article of significant interest by Laura Gonyar
Congratulations to Laura Gonyar, a graduate student in the Kendall lab - her article, "Ethanolamine and choline promote expression of putative and characterized fimbriae in enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli O157:H7" was chosen as a…
