Kissinger Research Group

March 2023

We wish Jeremy all the best in his wonderful new job at the Foundation for NIH. 

September 30, 2022

Bob is leaving the lab to start a position in industry. We all said goodbye at Cali N Tito's! We wish you the best of luck, and will miss having you around!

September 29, 2022

Jessie was interviewed for Episode 85 of the The Genetics Podcast, 'Dr Jessica Kissinger on large-scale parasite genomics and the power of multi-omic data' hosted by Dr. Patrick Short. Way to go Jessie!

August 22, 2022

Mohammad Obaidat, a professor at the Jordan University of Science and Technology, joined the lab as a visiting scholar and student! Welcome to the lab Mohammad!

June 10, 2022

Fiifi was selected as one of the recipients of the Genetics T32 Training Grant fellowship for the 2022-2023 academic year. Congratulations, Fiifi!

May 27, 2022

Lasya was selected as one of the recipients of the George Hugh Boyd Memorial Scholarship for the 2022-2023 academic year. Congratulations, Lasya!

Ethan Smith won the Outstanding Undergraduate Thesis award in Genetics for his work on compressed repetitive regions in the Toxoplasma gondii genome sequence! He graduated this May, and is off to graduate school at the University of North Carolina. Congratulations, Ethan!!

May 10, 2022

Yiran's paper, "Small and intermediate size structural RNAs in the unicellular parasite Cryptosporidium parvum as revealed by sRNA-seq and comparative genomics" has been published in Microbial Genomics. Congratulations!!

May 2022

Claire completed her undergraduate thesis entitled "Generation and analysis of new annotation and DNA motifs in the protist parasite Sarcocystis neurona", and will graduate in May 2022! She will be missed, but we wish her the best of luck in her future studies!

January 26, 2022

Jessie was elected as a member of the 2021 Fellows of AAAS! Jessie thanks the wonderful teams she has had the pleasure of working with that helped make this possible. Congratulations, Jessie!!

Fiifi Agyabeng-Dadzie and Lasya Penumarthi joined the lab as Graduate Research Assistants! Welcome to the lab!

December 22, 2021

Rodrigo's paper, "Analysis of Long Non-Coding RNA in Long-read assembly and comparative evidence-based reanalysis of Cryptosporidium genome sequences reveals expanded transporter repertoire and duplication of entire chromosome ends including subtelomeric regions" has been published online in Genome Research. Congratulations!!