Look for Lazear Lab members at these upcoming meetings and conferences:

News


Jan 2024: Margaret talked with Shadow a Scientist about her project and how high school students can get involved with research:
https://www.instagram.com/reel/C2aAt0eOfdJ


June 2023: Great to have the opportunity to share our work at the American Society for Virology meeting in Athens, GA!

Lazear lab at asv 2023: nigel, helen, mikhala, drake


May 2023: Spring party to celebrate so many accomplishments by our lab members (current and alumni), including (but not limited to): graduating with a BS in Biology (Nigel), joining our lab as a new PhD student (Mikhala), passing qualifying exam and advancing to PhD candidacy (Margaret), tenure (Helen), moving on to a new job (Brittany), and matching for residency/fellowship (Cesar). So proud of all of you!


April 2023: It was great to see Nigel present his work at the UNC Celebration of Undergraduate Research! Nigel has worked with Drake to adapt our models for acute and recurrent HSV-1 skin disease to HSV-2. We’re glad to have Nigel continue on in our lab as a technician!


April 2023: Congratulations to Margaret for passing her qualifying exam and advancing to PhD candidacy! Look out for her cool work about IFN-L mediated immunity at the maternal-fetal interface!


March 2023: Helen promoted to Associate Professor with Tenure! So grateful to the current and former lab members who made this possible, and to colleagues near and far for all their support. Proud of what we’ve accomplished so far, and excited for great science yet to come!


Feb 2023: A much-delayed gathering, but: happy holidays from the Lazear Lab!


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.