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Please welcome Dr. Yo Okamura who joined our lab a week ago! Yo received his Ph.D. from the University of Miyazaki, Japan, His main research interests are comparative mucosal immunology and innate responses. Yo is funded by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science.
Dr. Nandan Gokhale receives the best poster award at the 32nd Annual Immunology Department Retreat. He has received this award two years in a row!
An article in the Atlantic titled "A Better Way to Think About Your Risk for COVID-19" by Roxanne Khamsi highlights studies including ours published in eLife on how innate immune genes play a critical role in early immune responses to control SARS-CoV-2. Our study uncovers a single nucleotide polymorphism that generates distinct OAS1 isoforms. We show that the prenylated isoform OAS1p46 can neutralize SARS-CoV2 virus replication. Patients carrying OAS1p46 have less propensity of developing severe COVID-19 disease. Frank Soveg, Graduate Student in the Ram lab, successfully defended his dissertation on Wednesday, February 3, 2021. His thesis work was on “Prenylation in cell-intrinsic innate immunity to positive-strand RNA viruses” Congratulations Dr. Frank Soveg! Congratulations to Dr. Nandan Gokhale on receiving a three-year Helen Hay Whitney Foundation Fellowship award. Way to go Nandan!
The Helen Hay Whitney Foundation provides support for early postdoctoral research training in all basic biomedical sciences with the ultimate goal of increasing the number of imaginative, well-trained and dedicated medical scientists. A very prestigious award; on average, only 5% of applications receive funding. New 2020 TL1 Program Cohort Joins ITHS
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