We had awesome weather hanging out playing ping pong and eating tacos!
Group Gelato Gathering!
Lab Holiday Gathering 2023!
Research from the lab featured in U of T med magazine!
A little bit of the lab's work on intergenerational immunity (including a pretty worm pic by Hala) was featured in the latest issue of the U of T med magazine!
Summer 2023!
The lab’s first BBQ was replite with chalk art, tacos, corn on the cob, ping pong, and an epic game of UNO!
The lab's first Ph.D. student!
Congrats to Hala on the successful defense of her Ph.D!
Our paper on using C. elegans to identify microsporidia inhibitors is published!
Preprints and evoworm 2022!
We posted two new preprints! One is on the conservation of transcriptional responses in coevolved microsporidia and hosts, and the other is on identifying wild C. elegans isolates with sensitivity or resistance to differnt microsporidia species. See threads here and here.
Yin and Angcy gave great presentations on these stories at the Evolutionary Biology of Caenorhabditis and Other Nematodes conference held in McMaster!
Microsporidia book and early researcher award!
The new microsporida book is finally out including our chapter on determinants of microsporidia infection and host specificity!
Also we were awared an Ontario Early Resercher award! Here is an interview talking about some of our recent work in understanding microsporidia.