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International Herpesvirus Workshop (IHW) - July 2023

Recent News: 

• April 2023; Emily Hogg was awarded a second UCARE fellowship to continue her work in the lab over the summer.

• April 2023: Chloe Deabler, Kate Thortenson, and Lexi Hauxwell were awarded UCARE fellowships to work in the lab during the academic year 23-24.

• March 2023; Kai Waddell was awarded an INBRE scholarship. He is now funded to work in the lab for the next two years. 

Congratulations everyone!

• May 2023: NVIBE retreat

• January 2023:  Shorooq Al Hikamani, Amara Byrant, and Laura Lienemann joined the group as new undergraduate interns

• January 2023: Lexi was featured in Nebraska Today

• December 2022; our recent publication is live at Current Protocols: Human Embryonic Stem Cells as a Model for Hematopoietic Stem Cell Differentiation and Viral Infection. Current Protocols. DOI: 10.1002/cpz1.622

• October 2022: The 22nd Prem S. Paul Symposium in Virology was a great success, thanks to our visiting speakers for a great day!

• October 2022: Polash Ghosh joined the lab as our second Department of Biochemistry PhD rotation student

• Dr. Crawford presented at these September seminars at UNL - thank you for joining us

  • September 8: Complex Biosystems seminar series: Viral Control of Hematopoietic Stem Cell Fate

  • September 9: College of Engineering 2022-2023 Biomedical Engineering seminar series: Building Better Bone Marrow: Using Chronic Viral Infection to Determine Stem Cell Biology

• August 2022: Alondra Torres joined the lab as our inaugural Department of Biochemistry PhD rotation student

• July 2022: Kamryn Pfenning joined the lab full time as a Research Technician 

• The lab was recently awarded a Layman Award for a seed project titled: "Beta-herpesvirus (HHV-6) control of T-cell differentiation", news article here.

• June 2022: Emily Hogg is joining the lab for a UNL-sponsored research project through the UCARE program

• June 2022: Mary Helms is joining the lab through the Undergraduate Summer Research Experience in Virology, a UNL- and NCV-sponsored REU summer program.

• April 27, 2022: Kamryn Pfenning presented her work on TMC1 and USH1G during cCMV infection at the Nebraska Weselyan Student Research Symposium

• March 2022: Emily Hogg was awarded a UCARE fellowship from UNL to study HCMV UL6 for summer 2022.

• March 2022: Dr. Crawford was featured on the Latency Session panel discussion at the 2022 Annual CMV Workshop (held virtually)

• January 31, 2022: Dr. Crawford was featured in the IANR Faculty Spotlight.

• January 2022: the first groups of undergraduate researchers have joined the lab. Welcome everyone! Details can be found on our members page with content in progress with permission.