Kissinger Research Group

December 16, 2021

Rodrigo is leaving the lab to begin an independent research career in early 2022 at Houston Methodist. We all said goodbye at White Tiger Gourmet! We wish you the best of luck, and will miss having you around!

December 2021

Rachel Lippincott completed her undergraduate thesis, and is leaving the lab to focus on her studies. We wish you the best of luck with finishing your studies, and congratulations on completing your thesis!

October, 2021

Jessie was interviewed for a special episode of the Peoples, Parasites and Plagues podcast, Special Mini Episode: 'A Career in Science, with Dr. Jessica Kissinger' hosted by Dr. David Peterson and Dr. Liliana Salvador at the University of Georgia. Way to go Jessie!

September 30, 2021

Jessie was interviewed for a an episode of the Peoples, Parasites and Plagues podcast, Episode 7: Petabytes of Problematic Pathogens' hosted by Dr. David Peterson and Dr. Liliana Salvador at the University of Georgia. Way to go Jessie!

August 3, 2021

Ethan is leaving the lab to focus on his studies. We all said goodbye at Cali N Tito’s! We wish you both the best of luck with finishing your studies, and hope to see you around during the upcoming school year!

July 23, 2021

Alicia Trujillo and Miguel Iglesias completed their summer research internships in the lab, and are off to finish their studies at their home institutions! We all said goodbye at Cali N Tito’s! We wish you both the best of luck with finishing your studies, Alicia and Miguel!

July 22, 2021

SUNFIG student Alicia Trujillo finished her summer internship in the lab with a successful poster presentation!

June 10, 2021

Rodrigo’s paper, “Challenges for Cryptosporidium Population Studies” has been published in Genes. Congratulations, Rodrigo!

June 1, 2021

Alicia Trujillo, Miguel Iglesias and Fiifi Agyabeng-Dadzie have joined the lab as visiting students for the summer. Alicia is a SUNFIG student, Miguel is an REU student working with Rodrigo, and Fiifi is an ILS student rotating in the lab. Welcome to the lab, Alicia, Miguel and Fiifi! 

May 2, 2021

Ethan Smith successfully completed his undergraduate thesis! Congratulations!

April 27, 2021

Ranjani's paper, "A novel fragmented mitochondrial genome in the protist pathogen <i>Toxoplasma gondii</i> and related tissue coccidia" has been published in Genome Research. Congratulations, Ranjani!

April 1, 2021

Rui “Ray” Xiao, a graduate student in the Bioinformatics program, joined the lab. His first project will be to disambiguate Cryptosporidium transcripts with new PacBio IsoSeq full-read data. Welcome to the lab, Ray!