We are hiring a postdoctoral reserearcher to isolate and characterize microviruses of the human gut.
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News
NIH funds our research
Good news! The NIH Centers of Bioedical Research Excellence (COBRE) program is funding the Oklahoma Center for Microbiome Research, which includes our lab's project "Engineering host-determinants of novel gut microviruses"
New paper - Microviruses: A World Beyond phiX174
Our new article is published in Annual Reviews of Virology covering microvirus diversity, biology and taxonomy. A beginner's primer for research into these tiny bacteriophages!
New Semester, new course, new lab members
New researchers join the lab and teaching commences.
2023 Molecular Genetics of Bacteria and Phages meeting in Wisconsin, Madison
Mehraj and Paul travel to lovely Madison, Wisconsin.
Viruses of Microbes 2023 - Tbilisi Georgia
Paul presents the lab's research in a historic setting.
The lab is up and running, plus virus structure
The lab is operational, new people have joined, and science news.
Keynote at International Symposium on single-stranded DNA Viruses, Sete, France
As we are continuing the lab setup, Paul Kirchberger advertises the lab and microviruses in general with his keynote talk "Causes and Consequences of Lysogeny in Microviruses" at the International Symposium on ssDNA Viruses in Sete, France.
Starting a new lab!
The Kirchberger lab, shared with Prof. Reed Stubbendieck's lab, is (not quite) open for business.