And Paul presents the newest research on mysterious marine mobile genetic elements
News
A mysterious new virus? - Preprint!
A new preprint in collaboration with Toni Luque from U. Miami describes our accidental discovery of a novel genetic element that looks suspiciously like a virus but does not resemble anything else we've seen before
Alex defends her thesis, and Padam gets a job at UNC Chapel Hill!
Big News!
Alex becomes the first graduate of the Kirchberger Lab - congratulations Master Chiconas!
Also, Padam moves on from his short stint in the Kirchberger lab to start a postdoc at UNC Chapel Hill - all the best to you Padam!
Paul presents at Evolution of Symbiosis, Insects and Microbes Symposium at UT Austin
A.K.A. the Howard Ochman & Nancy Moran Lab alumni reunion in lovely Austin Texas.
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".