As a part of the development of graduate students into scientist, each student is required to put together an initial draft of what they imagine their thesis might look like 3-4 years from now. Today, Elias successfully defended his plans for identifying potential scaffold to control the ever growing number of antibiotic-resistance pathogens as well as identifying the target and mechanism of an effector protein that Dr. Heisler has been interested in since 2017.
Morgan Successfully Defends her Dissertation Outline
As a part of the development of graduate students into scientist, each student is required to put together an initial draft of what they imagine their thesis might look like 3-4 years from now. Today, Morgan successfully demonstrated how she plans to tackle an ongoing problem in Listeria biology for explaining how our cells sometimes cannot protect themselves from a Listeria infection, and how the bacteria uses its virulence factors to successfully do this.
Congrats Morgan!
Not the WORST EVER!
Was Dr. Heisler is a rush this morning? Yes. Did he park great? No. But the worst ever? Really!?
Dr. Heisler admits, he could have done better.
Winters Foundation Grant Supported!
Today, we received that our proposal for investigating mechanisms of Pathogenic hijacking of plasma membrane cholesterol has been selected by the Samuel and Emma Winters Foundation for funding! Builing on the work Dr. Heisler did in his postdoctoral studies with Neal Alto and Arun Radhakrishnan, this project is hopes to uncover novel mechanisms bacteria use to control host cholesterol levels and the implication of those on host-pathogen interactions.
Fully Funded Travel Award for Trista to Attend the GCURS!
Trista, as a Goldwater Fellow, we selected to attend the Gulf Coast Undergraduate Research Symposium (GCRUS) at Rice University this fall. On top of being selected, she was awarded a Travel Award that provides full financial support to attend. Huge CONGRATS to Trista!