Skip to main content

Pseudomonas needs calcium for motility!

July 29, 2010

This inference is reported in January 2010 PNAS by Dr. Matt Wolfgang and collaborators, and highlighted in the Spring issue of UNC’s Endeavors magazine…

Kwun Wah Wen is the 2010 Manire Award recipient

July 22, 2010

The Department of Microbiology and Immunology is pleased to announce that Kwun Wah Wen is the 2010 Manire Award recipient. Kwun Wah is a fourth year MD/Ph.D.student in Blossom Damania’s lab. The selection committee felt that Kwun Wah’s research accomplishments were most impressive…

Malaria article in Endeavors

July 22, 2010

The Winter 2010 of Endeavors magazine includes a malaria article written by M&I graduate student Beth Mole; HIV articles featuring the work of M&I faculty members Ron Swanstrom, David Margolis, and Victor Garcia-Martinez; and a story on M&I faculty member Jon Serody’s work on graft-versus-host disease.

Dr. Jenny Ting appointed to top NIAID advisory committee

July 22, 2010

Jenny Ting will soon begin a four-year term on NIAID’s National Advisory Council, which approves new initiatives for NIAID and performs administrative review of grant applications. The Council is the chief advisory committee for NIAID, which funds most of the grants in the Department of Microbiology & Immunology at UNC…