At the International Herpesvirus Workshop in Knoxville, TN, Ileana presented our lab's work in a keynote lecture, while Krystal also gave an oral seminar and Xinlei manned the poster session. 

Both graduate students gave oral presentations on their recent work at this year's ASV, which was held in Minneapolis, MN, covering topics ranging from virus-induced acetylation to subcellular protein translocations.

Katelyn continued her science communication efforts via a 55-hour Ask Me Anything (AMA) session, featured on the Addictive Brain Instagram account (see @TheAddictiveBrain and

Katelyn's proposal for the Allergies & Infectious Diseases branch of the NIH was selected for three years of research funding. Congrats on the excellent work, Katelyn!

She will be accepting this competitive award to attend the upcoming American Society of Virology conference in July.

The entire lab road-tripped down to Philly to support Krystal and learn about all the wonderful work on herpesviruses that's being done at the University of Pennsylvania. 

Samvida's accomplishments continue to be honored, with both a summa cum laude bachelor's degree distinction, and a prize for Best Senior Thesis! We are so proud of you, Samvida, and will miss having you around lab!

Ileana will be carrying the role of DGS starting in September 2019, accepting the mantle from Dr. Zemer Gitai. She will be the go-to mentor for all MolBio graduate students at Princeton, and continue to develop our graduate school into a world-class program!

She is thrilled and honored to receive this prestigious award! Congrats Michelle - it's well deserved!

Cora headed up to New Brunswick for the annual American Society of Microbiology (New Jersey branch) meeting, where she interacted with many bacteriologists and got some great feedback on her work on the evolutionarily-conserved antiviral enzyme, SIRT4.