Isaac Babcock awarded AAI fellowship
9/20/2024
Congratulations to Harris Lab graduate student Isaac Babcock, who was awarded a 2024 fellowship by The American Association of Immunologists!
Tajie Harris, PhD, Awarded $2.6 Million to Study How the Immune System Benefits the Brain
9/5/2024
Congrats to Tajie Harris, who was awarded a five-year $2.6 million grant from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, titled “Caspase-8 mediated control of CNS infection.” Visit this…
Tajie Harris Appointed as Shannon Center Mid-Career Fellow
6/11/2024
June 2024 - Congratulations to Tajie Harris, Ph.D., who was selected as a Shannon Center Mid-Career Fellow! The Shannon Center Mid-Career Fellowship program was launched last year to honor outstanding…
Tajie Harris Featured in The New York Times and Time Discussing Brain Parasites
5/21/2024
May 2024 - Tajie Harris, PhD, was recently featured in The New York Times and Time discussing the effects of parasites on the human brain. Visit this link for more information!
Outstanding Graduate Student in Neuroscience
5/4/2023
April 2023- Michael Kovacs, from Tajie Harris’s laboratory, has been selected as the 2023 MIC Outstanding Student. Mike will also represent the MIC Graduate Program as our nominee for the…
Carleigh publishes paper and passes thesis defense!
3/7/2019
March 2019- Carleigh O’Brien is nearing graduation! She published her second first author paper in February of 2019 in the Journal of Immunology, titled “IL-10 and ICOS Differentially Regulate T…
3/7/2019
Congratulations to Sam Batista, who received a 1.5 years of funding in January 2019 for a research supplement to Tajie’s current R01 to promote diversity in academic research!
Maureen awarded a Training Grant
3/7/2019
Congratulations to Maureen Cowan for being awarded an Immunology Training Grant in July for the 2018-2019 year! Immunology is one of several training grants represented in the Harris Lab, also…
American Association for Immunologists (AAI) 2018 Conference Travel Awards
3/7/2019
Kate and Sam received travel awards to attend and give oral presentations at AAI, May 4th – May 8th 2018. They enjoyed their first visits to Austin, TX!
22nd Annual Woods Hole Immunoparasitology Meeting
3/7/2019
Tajie, Carleigh, Sam, and Kate attended the Woods Hole Immunoparasitology (WHIP) conference April 15th – April 18th, 2018. Kate and Sam gave oral presentations, and Carleigh received a poster prize…
