#TeamKhanna super star undergraduate, Eduardo Bernier, presented his project at the Conference for Undergraduate Research in Biology (CURB 2024) at NYU Downtown this week. Under Eric Bartnicki's mentorship, Eduardo has blossomed into a budding scientist and learned fantastic new skills such as multiparametric flow cytometry and analysis on IMARIS as well as genomic analyses of high dimensional 1 10x datasets using R. We are so proud of you, Eduardo!
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Congratulations to our undergraduate students Varshini Vimal and Tanzim Farham for scoring DURF awards from NYU Dean's office. This is such a great accomplishment for the students, and this award will help them uncover basic biology of immune cells in lung and brain.
We are so proud of you both and can't wait to see the wonderful data that comes from this award. We are super thrilled to announce that Dr. Stephen T. Yeung will be starting his own independent research at Northwell (Feinstein Institute) as an Assistant Professor. Stephen will be recruiting trainees and staff soon, so look out for his adverts on Twitter.
Stephen has been a part of #TeamKhanna for nearly a decade dating back to Khanna Lab at UConn. He transferred from the UCONN graduate program to the Vilcek in NYULH, and graduated with his PhD from in 2020. After 2 incredibly productive years at Weill Cornell, where he worked on a number of projects including HIV and Sars, Stephen returned to NYU and Team Khanna in 2022 as a Senior Scientist and has been an integral part of the lab's ecosystem. We can't wait to see what Stephen will do at Northwell and will be championing him from the sidelines throughout. So proud of you, Stephen. Cheers! Congratulations to our undergraduate, Eduardo Bernier for winning the Dean's Undergraduate Res Fund award. This is a cash award which will be used for Eduardo's ongoing project in lab under Eric's mentorship towards investigating mechanisms of regulatory macrophages in Tumor Microenvironment.
Dr. Payal Yokota presenting her talk at NEIC-2023 Payal, Eric and Mimi presented their projects at the New England Immunology Conference in Woods Hole (MA) that took place Dec 2,3.
Payal gave a short-talk about her ongoing pursuit to understanding innate memory in heterologous infections, and snagged one of the best talk awards. Eric presented his project about the function of regulatory macrophages and tumor metastases and also snagged a poster award! Mimi did a brilliant job presenting her project on splenic res macrophages in bacterial infections and got a lot of questions on her poster. Congratulations to our NYU Langone colleagues, Thales and Sergei on this new work in Cell Reports.
New story from our NYU Langone colleagues was published this month in Nature. From Weimin Zhang (postdoc, Jef Boeke Lab), this is a highly innovative work with an elegant genetically engineered mouse model to study SARS-CoV-2.
#TeamKhanna members Payal, Camille and Stephen contributed with their ABSL3/SARS expertise in this study. Eric's imaging always dazzles and the TriC community at NYU LH agrees! Eric Bartnicki wins "The Best Poster" title at TriC/I&I retreat, 2023
#TeamKhanna postdoctoral fellow, Dr. Payal Damani-Yokota, presented her work at the VIB@EMDS2023 meeting in Ghent, Belgium. This was a great meeting to showcase our work. Look out for this study, soon to be out for the world to see.
Payal also won one of the trainee awards at the EMDS2023! Congratulations to Dr. Denis Loredan, a recent Khanna lab alumni, on his first paper as a first author. In this story, Denis evaluated the role of CX3cR1+ cells during Staph infection. Co-mentored by P'ng Loke and Victor Torres, this is an important study towards the understanding of Birc5 signaling! Check it out, here.
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