Criss Lab News

March 2013: Brittany Johnson and Kylene Daily were selected to present at the "Two Hoos" session of the Huskey Graduate Research Exhibition on March 27, 2013.  Their talk on "Mechanism of Neisseria gonorrhoeae internalization by neutrophils" was one of seven given by pairs of graduate and undergraduate student researchers.  Congratulations Brittany and Kylene!

February 2013: Congratulations to Kylene Daily, who received a 2013 Harrison Distinguished Undergraduate Research Award!  Kylene's project will explore how unopsonized Neisseria gonorrhoeae is internalized by primary human neutrophils.  More on the Harrison Awards is available here (http://www.virginia.edu/cue/harrison.html).

January 2013: We welcome Stephanie Ragland to the Criss lab!

Stephanie received her undergraduate degree from Virginia Commonweath University and worked in Jason Carlyon's lab at VCU prior to entering the BIMS program at UVA in July 2012.

January 2013: The manuscript “Neisseria gonorrhoeae Phagosomes Delay Fusion with Primary Granules to Enhance Bacterial Survival Inside Human Neutrophils” by Brittany Johnson and Alison Criss was accepted at Cellular Microbiology.  Link to the manuscript:  http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/cmi.12117/pdf

The Criss lab presented at the Mid-Atlantic Microbial Pathogenesis Meeting at Wintergreen Resort in Virginia, January 27-29.  Brittany Johnson was selected to give a talk and received a travel award.  Louise Ball, Jonathan Handing, Rick Juneau, and Asya Smirnov presented posters.