Announcements
September 23, 2021
Congratulations, Elizabeth and Jonathan!
A review about herpesvirus capsids across the three subfamilies is now published in Viruses.
September 13, 2021
Welcome, Haley!
Haley is a PhD student in the Cellular, Molecular and Developmental Biology program rotating in our lab working with Bing on HSV-1 nuclear egress factors.
September 13, 2021
Welcome, Ariana!
Ariana is a PhD student in the Molecular Microbiolgoy program rotating in our lab working with Martin on an in vitro fusion system.
August 24, 2021
Congratulations, Mike!
A story of how HSV-1 NEC order lipids with clusters of basic residues in UL31 is now published in mBio.
June 14, 2021
Welcome, Jonathan!
Jonathan is a summer student working with Elizabeth virtually on a thorough literature review of the similarities and differences in capsid structure and capsid protein function between the three human herpesvirus subfamilies.
May 17, 2021
Welcome, Erin!
Erin is a PhD student in the Cellular, Molecular and Development Biology program rotating in our lab, studying HSV-1 fusion with Zemplen.
April 6, 2021
Welcome, Izzy!
Izzy is a PhD student in the Molecular Microbiology program rotating in our lab, studying the nuclear egress complex with Mike.
March 2, 2021
Congratulations, Adam!
A story of HSV-1 entry routes published in mBio.
February 22, 2021
Welcome, Sammy!
Sammy is a PhD student in the Cellular, Molecular and Developmental Biology program rotating in our lab, studying nuclear egress with Bing.
February 18, 2021
Congratulations, Elizabeth!
Peptides from HSV-1 UL25 are shown to inhibit HSV-1 NEC membrane budding in a paper published in Nature Scientific Reports.
September 15, 2020
Congratulations, Katya!
Katya received funding from the Pew Innovation Fund in collaboration with Daniela Nicastro PhD to investigate herpesvirus escape mechanisms via cutting-edge imaging techniques.
August 12, 2020
Welcome, Gonzalo!
Gonzalo joins our lab as a postdoctoral scholar in the Tufts IRACDA Program.
June 24, 2020
Congratulations, Elizabeth!
NEC cryo-EM studies published in eLife.
May 18, 2020
Welcome, Nathalie!
Nathalie joins our lab as a PhD student from the Molecular Microbiology program.
May 5, 2020
Congratulations Claire and Andrea!
UL11 structural studies published in mBio.
April 13, 2020
Congratulations, Elizabeth!
Elizabeth received The American Society for Virology Travel Award for ASV2020.
June 3, 2019
Welcome, Aiden!
Aiden is an undergraduate studying the nuclear egress complex in the lab this summer.
June 3, 2019
Welcome, Sammi!
Sammi is an MD/PhD student rotating in our lab this summer, studying the role of glycoproteins during entry.
June 3, 2019
Welcome, Bing!
Bing joins our lab as a PhD student from the Cellular, Molecular and Developmental Biology Program.
May 9, 2019
Congratulations, Adam!
Review article is published in PLoS Pathogens.
May 3, 2019
Congratulations, Andrea!
Andrea successfully defended her PhD thesis.
April 23, 2019
Congratulations, Adam!
Adam received an American Society for Virology (ASV) travel award.
January 28, 2019
Congratulations, Katya!
Katya is elected fellow into the American Academy of Microbiology.
August 22, 2018
Congratulations, Mike!
Mike is the recipient of the Rosenberg Fellowship from the Tufts Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences.
August 7, 2018
Congratulations, Katya!
Katya is awarded an NIH R21 grant for investigating HSV-1 entry mechanisms.
May 29, 2018
Congratulations, Katya!
Katya has been appointed the American Cancer Society (Massachusetts Division) Endowed Professor of Molecular Biology.
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