• Well, now these website updates have dwindled to an annual affair. It was a year that started with all of us hunkered down for the winter COVID wave, but much has improved since then. Most important highlights are the comings and goings in the lab. Jack McGinty became our first PhD graduate and left in the summer to pursue a career in industry.
• In May, Jakob was named a Burroughs Wellcome Fund Investigator in Pathogenesis of Infectious Disease for a proposal built on Aloe’s work in the lab.
• Over the summer we were joined by outstanding undergraduate Derek Sargent via the UW-STAR program. He and Tyler made some exciting discoveries and Derek presented his work in the Undergraduate Research Symposium before heading back for a final year of college.
• This fall brought the arrival of three outstanding postdocs/research scientists. Margaret McDaniel from UT Southwestern/Cincinnati, Thornton Thompson from UC Berkeley, and Shan Kasal from U Chicago. We are so excited to see how their projects develop!
• And just in general, it’s been so nice to all be back in lab at the same time and to have opportunities for more normal interactions.
