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Celebrating the acceptance of Amy & Emily's lab animal manuscript describing the murine norovirus strain wu23 as a robust small animal model of norovirus diarrhea!

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Lufuno and Zhengzheng begin their postdoctoral fellowships
Spring 2023

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A jam-packed and successful 1st annual university of Florida virology retreat!
Austin Cary Learning Center, December 13, 2022

Beautiful venue for a local conference. There were even baby gators in the lake to entertain us!
Amy presenting on the role of ASBT in MNV pathogenesis
Joyce presenting on the role of TGR5 in protecting from MNV disease
Quyen presenting on the cell tropism of diarrheagenic murine noroviruses
Meera presenting on the role of EDC4 and XRN1 in human coronavirus replication
Marco, Joyce and Amy
Amy gave a great trainee talk and Joyce, Marco, Quyen, and Meera all did terrific jobs at their posters.

Joyce passed her qualifying exam!
November 14, 2022

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Congrats to Dr. Helm!

The new Dr. Emily Helm successfully defended her dissertation on March 15, 2022 and received her doctorate! Emily will be returning to finish medical school this summer and will be missed in lab. We wish Emily the best of luck in the future!
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Congrats to our simr students and their awesome mentors for a successful summer internship!

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Amy and SIMR student Quyen studied how murine norovirus breaches the intestinal epithelium to reach its immune cells targets

Summer 2022


Quyen and Meera were two of our Summer Internship in Microbiology Research (SIMR) students in 2022 and did a fantastic job carrying out full-time research while also learning all about graduate school.
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Marco and SIMR student Meera studied how EDC4 and XRN1 promote human coronavirus replication
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