A.K.A. the Howard Ochman & Nancy Moran Lab alumni reunion in lovely Austin Texas.
News
Mehraj, Alex and Nathan present at ASM Regionals 2025
while Paul sits in the audience!
New Paper on microviral infection mechanisms
Lead author Dr. Pavol Bardy from Prof. Fred Antson's lab at the University of York publishes a beautiful new paper in mBio, and we were lucky enough to collaborate with them on this project!
New Year, New Lab members!
With the coming spring 2025 semester, three new lab members are joining us!
New labspace, new virus structures
The lab has successfully made our move into LSE006, our new space for years to come.
More funding from the NIH!
More good news! The National Insitute of Health are funding our R03 grant "Mechanisms and dynamics of superinfection exclusion in microviral prophage populations".
Alex presents at ASM2024 Atlanta
Paul and Alex travel to the 2024 meeting of the American Society of Microbiology in Atlanta, Georgia
New phage, new preprint
Wherein Paul describes a new phage infecting Rhodobacter with Friend of the Lab and Cryo-EM Wizard Pavol Bardy.
Hiring Postdoc!
We are hiring a postdoctoral reserearcher to isolate and characterize microviruses of the human gut.
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