Another long gap since the last update and there’s lots to report.
Student Defenses - Marija Nadjsombati (October 2022) and Tyler Billipp (July 2023) defended their dissertations and earned PhDs (and the tuft cell helmet)! Marija has since left to study breast cancer metastasis in a postdoc at the University of Utah, but check out her fantastic Pou2af3 paper in the Publications tab. Tyler remains in the lab to finish a publication. Congratulations to both of the new doctors!
Tenure - Jakob officially became a tenured and was promoted from Assistant to Associate Professor on July 1st 2022! It’s a great achievement and a testament to contributions from all the lab memebers past and present, but as one colleague reminded Jakob: “now you’re just another kind of Ass”.
Fellowships & Awards - Moltke Lab trainees have continued to knock it out of the park. Postdoc Margaret McDaniel was selected as a Hanna Gray Fellow and postdoc Thornton Thompson as a CRI Irvington fellow. Tyler Billipp received a fellowship from the UW Immunology Department. Heber Lara finished up his two years on the CMB Training Grant and immediately followed that with an ISCRM Fellowship. He also continues his astonishing run of poster prizes - four and counting! The undergraduates excelled as well. Danielle Jones was selected as a Mary Gates scholar and presented her work at the UW Undergrad Symposium. Tuan Vu received UW-STAR funding for his summer research in addition to multiple scholarships and awards from the Microbiology Department and others.
Lab Gatherings - There have been too many lab gatherings to list them all here. Sadly, we frequently had to say goodbye to lab members moving on to the next stage of their career. One major highlight was the tie dye extravaganza (thank you Aloe and Luke!) we pulled together for Marija’s sendoff…
…and the lab’s charcuterie game remains incredibly strong. The cookies for Marija’s defense and the swiss rolls (not pictured) for Tyler’s defense were also next level.
