Eray Enustun successfully defends his PhD thesis!
Congratulations to Eray on an extraordinary thesis defense!
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May
26
Jan
HHMI Emerging Pathogens Initiative Featured in UC San Diego Today
This initiative funds a collaborative effort between the Joe Pogliano lab and 7 other labs at UC San Diego, Yale, and the J. Craig Venter Institute. The consortium investigates nucleus-forming jumbo phage for phage therapy applications. See the article here.
18
Sep
Eray and Emily awarded endowed fellowships at annual BioSci retreat!
Eray Enustun and Emily Armbruster were recognized with endowed fellowships at the annual Biological Sciences-Salk Institute Retreat. Eray received the Goeddel Endowed Fellowship and Emily received the McElroy Fellowship. Read more here.
Congratulations Eray and Emily!
03
Aug
Jumbo Phage collaboration featured by UC San Diego Today, HHMI
Work from our collaboration with the labs of Elizabeth Villa, Kevin Corbett, and Rommie Amaro was featured in an article from UC San Diego Today and a press release by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI). This work investigates formation of the phage nuclear shell during 201φ2-1 infection of Pseudomonas chlororaphis (Laughlin & Deep et al. Nature 2022).
Congratulations to first authors Tom & Amar, and Pogliano lab co-authors Amy, Eray, Kanika, Erica, and Emily!
19
Jul
Arica VanderWal joined the lab!
Arica joins the lab as a postdoc and will be co-advised by Elizabeth Villa (UCSD, HHMI).
13
Jun
Lab attends ASM Microbe Meeting
This week, the lab attended ASM Microbe in Washington, DC. We heard many great talks, especially “Identifying Key Components of Phage Nucleus System” by our very own Eray Enustun! Amy Prichard also presented a poster on jumbo bacteriophage diversity. Congratulations Eray and Amy!
15
Apr
18
Mar
Erica Birkholz successfully defended her PhD!
Congratulations to Erica on a fantastic thesis defense!
01
Dec
Annie Aindow joined the lab!
Annie joined the lab as a new postdoc, working on a collaboration with Elizabeth Villa’s lab.
14
Oct