Kaitlin Sawatzki (PhD candidate) received the Microbiology department’s Russek Student Achievement second prize award. Kaitlin will give a poster presentation of her work. Sawatzki, K., Ataca, W., Watanable, K., Kuraoka, M., Walter, E., Kelsoe, G., Feng, F. and Kepler, T. Non-specific activation of autoreactive B cells after anthrax vaccination delays protection.
Congratulations to Sila Ataca (PhD candidate, Microbiology), who received a Graduate Medical Sciences Student Organization (GMSSO) Community Service Award. Awardees are selected on the basis of an outstanding track record of volunteer service in the Greater Boston Area undertaken since matriculation and comes with a $500 prize to offset the cost of travel to or […]
Stephanie D’Souza (MD student and PhD candidate) will give a talk on her research (“A draft genome sequence for the Egyptian fruit bat, the reservoir host for Marburg virus”) at the Next-Generation Sequencing (NGS) 2016 conference in Barcelona next week. This conference is hosted by the International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB) and the Centre […]
Tom Kepler has been selected to replace David H. Sherr as the director of the Immunology Training Program (ITP). The ITP is an interdepartmental teaching and research program involving faculty from multiple disciplines within the Boston University Schools of Medicine, Public Health, and Dental Medicine.
Tom Kepler presented a talk entitled “Evolutionary Dynamics in the Antibody Response” on March 11, 2016, as part of the Laufer Center for Physical and Quantitative Biology seminar series.
Katherine (PhD candidate, Bioinformatics) attended the Antibody/Viral Coevolution Workshop March 3-4, 2016. The workshop, hosted by the New Mexico Consortium, was held in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Congratulations to our own Kate Sawatzki (PhD candidate, Microbiolgy), who is the first place winner of the Microbiology Trainee Travel Award! She will use the funds to travel to the Gordon Research Conference on Antibody Biology and Engineering, from March 20-25, 2016, in Galveston, TX.
Statistics is a key competency in scientific research—never more so than today—but too often is presented in a dry and detached manner, leaving the impression that statistics is an unfortunate but necessary hurdle to clear after the real science is done. In contrast to this view, we will approach the subject from the broader perspective […]
Tom Kepler will give a talk, entitled “The Ig Repertoire of the Rhesus Macaque”, on Thursday December 10 at the Antibody Engineering and Therapeutics conference in San Diego, CA. Conference details can be found here.
Congratulations to Stephanie D’Souza (PhD/MD Program), won an award for her poster, entitled “A draft genome sequence for the Egyptian fruit bat, the reservoir host for Marburg virus”, at the Genome Science Institute Research Symposium on November 10th!