2020

February

Liz has been accepted at University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine! Congratulations Liz!!

Jasmine Tuazon, MD-Ph.D. student in the MSTP program, rotates in the lab. Welcome Jasmine!

January

Taylor Feldt, Ph.D. student in the MCDB program, rotates in the lab. Welcome Taylor!

2019

December

Liz gives a talk at the Center for Retrovirus Research Lab Meeting and Seminar Series.

October

Anna presents a poster at the Midwest Virology Symposium.

September

Liz has started interviewing for medical school. Good luck Liz!

Amit gives a talk at MICaB Graduate Program at University of Minnesota.

Geraldine Vilmen joins the lab as our first postdoc. Welcome Geraldine!

Kyle Yamat joins the lab as an undergraduate intern. Welcome Kyle!

August

Anna Smith, Ph.D. student in the MCDB program, joins the lab. Welcome Anna!

July

Amit gives a talk at the American Society for Virology’s Satellite Symposium "Howard Temin’s Legacy: Innovations in Virology".

Jessica presents a poster on her summer research project at 2019 National Veterinary Scholars Symposium at Tufts University.

Our paper identifying macaque IFITMs as restriction factors for SHIV is published in PLoS Pathogens.

June

Anna Smith, Ph.D. student in the MCDB program, rotates in the lab. Welcome Anna!

May

Amit gives a talk at the Second HIV Mucosal Systems Meeting in Chicago, IL.

Jessica Garcia, a DVM candidate, joins the lab as a summer researcher. Jessica’s application to the OSU Veterinary Student Summer Research Program was funded and she received the Boehringer Ingelheim Veterinary Scholar. Congrats Jessica!

March

Amit receives NIH; NIAID R00 Grant entitled “Host innate immune response as a barrier to cross-species retrovirus transmission."

January

Liz Kairis joins the lab as an undergraduate intern. Welcome Liz!

2018

September

Our review article on CD4-HIV Envelope interaction is published in AIDS Research and Human Retroviruses.

August

Sharma lab is open!