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Welcome Dr. Yo Okamura!

10/17/2021

 
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. 

Congrats Nandan!

10/17/2021

 
Dr. Nandan Gokhale receives the best poster award at the 32​nd Annual Immunology Department Retreat.  He  has received this award two years in a row!  

The Atlantic highlights our study that implicates prenylated OAS1  in protecting against severe COVID-19 disease.

10/6/2021

 

              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. 

Congrats Dr. Frank Soveg!

2/12/2021

 
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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!

Dr. Nandan Gokhale Awarded Helen Hay Whitney Foundation Fellowship

11/13/2020

 
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.
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Rachel secures ITHS fellowship!

7/9/2020

 

New 2020 TL1 Program Cohort Joins ITHS
ITHS is very pleased to welcome 16 new trainees to its TL1 Translational Research Training Program for the 2020-2021 cohort. The ITHS TL1 program is a one-year mentored research training program in translational science for predoctoral students. This program creates a cross-disciplinary community of emerging researchers and provides them with specific training, career development opportunities, and team science skills to help them function effectively within translational science teams. We look forward to supporting these trainees while they grow and develop as translational researchers.

Ram lab members on a roll!!!

3/20/2019

 
​Fellowships awarded  in 2017-18
Adriana Forero -T32 Cardio vascular pathology TG
Solomon and Julian Smith -T32 Immunology TG
Matthew Hendricks -T32 Pathobiology TG
Frank Soveg - T32 CMB TG

Congrats  Frank !!!!

3/20/2019

 

 Frank received  F31 Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award. This competitive and prestigious NIH predoctoral fellowship will support his dissertation research. The title of his project is “Defining the roles of OAS1 isoforms in RNA virus immunity.” Frank is interested in how the cell-intrinsic innate response to viruses achieves specificity. One way he believes this is happening is through isoform diversification of antiviral genes such as oligo adenylate synthetase 1 (OAS1). By producing isoforms with different antiviral specificities, the immune system can recognize and respond to different viral threats.

Congratulations Dr. Joslyn !!!

8/16/2018

 
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Rochelle successfully defended her PhD thesis on August 15th 2018!!!

Students from Mukogawa University, Japan      visit Ram Lab

10/1/2017

 
Pharmacy students from Mukogawa Women's University, Hyōgo, Japan visited Ram Lab on August 24th 2017. They spent the afternoon listening to the research conducted in the Ram lab as well as learning molecular biology techniques.
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