Sept 2022: Fun to be in Atlanta for the Southeastern Regional Virology Conference! Great talks by Drake and Josh!

July 2022: It was so great to be at an in-person ASV meeting again and to have the opportunity to share our work!

Josh, Brittany, and drake at asv 2022 in madison, wi

Drake presents “IFN-l signaling protects from severe hsv-1 skin disease”

Josh presents his work on no-known-vector flaviviruses

brittany presents her work studying powassan virus in collaborative cross mice

lazear lab at asv 2022

UNC at ASV 2022: Lisa gralinski, craig cameron, jamie arnold, nick catanzaro, jaclyn higgins, drake philip, lily adams, josh nielsen, tim sheahan, matt vogt, calvin yeager, jenny loome, fulla abdelgadir, david aponte diaz, helen lazear, brittany jasperse, deanna zhu

June 2022: Congratulations to Drake for receiving an F31 fellowship! We are excited to have this support for his work studying how IFN-L acts to limit HSV skin lesions.

May 2022: Congratulations to Becca for a terrific thesis defense! Check out the (first) paper about her thesis project in mBio.

March 2022: Fun times at our lab holiday party (even if we were delayed by omicron).

Feb 2022: Congratulations to Brittany for receiving an F32 fellowship! We are excited to have this support for her work using Collaborative Cross mice to study how host genetic differences affect the pathogenesis of Powassan virus and other neuroinvasive flaviviruses.