Lab News & Updates

Best Wishes to Jeremy

March 2023

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

lab gathering

Farewell, Bob!

Farewell party for Bob at Cali N Tito'sSeptember 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!

Welcome, Mohammad!

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!

Congratulations, Ethan!

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!!

Congratulations and farewell, Claire!

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!

Welcome, Fiifi & Lasya!

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

Fiifi's Portrait     Lasya's Portrait