Katelyn presented her work with Sam on Type II secretion and vascular movement of Pseudomonas at the 2026 Celebrate Undergraduate Research and Creativity Showcase. Nice poster!
Katelyn presented her research at CURC 2026
Katelyn Meyer awarded an HHMI summer internship!
Katelyn was awarded a 2026 HHMI Cech Fellows Summer Undergraduate Research position! She’ll be working in the Summers Laboratory at UMBC. Congratulations Katelyn, very exciting!
Nak Hyun Kim joins the lab as a Research Scientist.
Dr. Kim has joined the lab to work on TIR immune receptors. Welcome Nak!
Larissa Adamik joins the lab as a postdoctoral researcher!
Larissa is joining the lab to work on TIR immune receptors. Welcome to Colorado and new adventures!
Sorghum’s “evolutionary rescue” from global aphid outbreak was conferred by a non-canonical NLR locus.
Excited to see Carl VanGessel’s (Geoffery Morris lab) paper out in Science Advances!
These NLRs muct function via a novel mechanism as they lack both an N-terminal output domain and a functional p-loop ATP-binding motif?
TIRome paper out in PNAS!
Adam, Lijiang, Mitchell, and colleagues used natural variation across ~150 Arabidopsis TIRs to help design artificial TIRs with predictable outputs.
First NIH award!
Phew! Very grateful to be awarded a MIRA for “Mechanisms of Toll/interleukin-1 receptor (TIR) domain function in cell death and immunity”. Awesome.
Thomas Gagnier defends honor’s thesis and graduates!
Thomas defended his undgergraduate honor’s thesis for the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology: “GENOME EDITING OF ENHANCED DISEASE SUSCEPTIBILITY1 USING CRISPR-CAS9 IN ARABIDOPSIS”. Worked closely with Sam and did a great job. Congratulations!
Sam presenting at the 2024 Plant Adaptation Symposium at CSU
2024 Summer meetings: Tyler and Sam presented at ASPB in Hawaii; Marc went to IPMB in Cairnes
Tyler stylishly presenting his thesis work on HopBA1.
Small, but definitely Sam!
Marc presented Adam’s TIRome story and explored Australian culture.