| May 02, 2025 | - We were awarded a Proof of Concept grant from the Colorado OEDIT Advanced Industries Accelerator program.
- Welcome to Emily DeCurtis, joining the lab from the Molecular Biology program.
- Ira Fleming was awarded an NIH/NIAID F30 “Investigating the role of type 1 interferon signaling on vaccine stability within lymphatic endothelial cells”
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| Nov 01, 2024 | - Welcome to Lane Anderson, a rotation student from the Molecular Biology program.
- Welcome to Emily DeCurtis, a rotation student from the Molecular Biology program.
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| Feb 27, 2024 | - Welcome to Grace Li, an undergraduate researcher from UC Denver, and welcome back Sami del Pozo, RBI summer intern.
- We were awarded an NSF MFB grant with Laura White, Olivia Rissland, and Matt Taliaferro to study “Cracking the Codes: Understanding the Rules of mRNA Localization and Translation”.
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| Jul 09, 2023 | - Welcome to Christina Akirtava, PhD, who joined the RBI Informatics Fellows, and a new PRA, Kelly McEntee.
- Ira Fleming was appointed to the Molecular Biology T32 grant.
- Jay was promoted to Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics.
- Welcome to three new students Ira Fleming (MSTP > MOLB), Ashlyn Stahly, (MSTP > MOLB), and Jill Bilodeaux (MICB), a new PRA (Kezia Dobson), and a summer intern (Samantha del Pozo from the RBI summer internship).
- Farewell to Saylor Strugar, who is joining the University of Wisconsin for graduate school, Rachel Ancar, MD, PhD, who graduated from the CU MSTP and is moving to Mass General Hospital for residency, Mandy Richer, PhD, who took a position at Honeycomb Bio, Tyler Matheny, PhD, who took a position at Sophia Genetics, and Aspen Martin, who took a position with Foresight Diagnostics.
- Jay won the CU Anschutz Research Faculty Collaborator Award.
- We were awarded a Cancer League of Colorado collaborative award with Linda van Dyk, PhD to study “Immune targeting therapies to disrupt virus-associated lymphomas.”
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| Dec 01, 2022 | - Catherine Nicholas was awarded an NIH/NIDDK F31 NRSA.
- We were awarded an AB Nexus collaborative award with Ondrej Kostov and Marvin Caruthers to study “Gene-specific antisense oligonucleotide therapies for diseases of haploinsufficiency.”
- We were awarded a CU ASPIRE award with Beth Tamburini, Tem Morrison, and Jenna Guthmiller to study “Mechanisms of immune protection and pathology by lymph node stromal cells.”
- We were awarded an NIH/NIAID R21 with Ross Kedl to study “mRNA encoding of immune receptor-targeting antibodies for the augmentation of vaccine-elicited cellular immunity.”
- We won the departmental pumpkin carving competition with a nanopumpkin sequencer, complete with butternut “pore”, acorn “motor”, and a threaded vine “RNA” (truly a masterpiece).
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