Summer Chaudhry, our SURP student, who worked closely with Eric Bartnicki in lab is saying goodbye this week as she goes back to school after a fantastic internship in lab. Come back and visit soon!
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We are delighted to welcome back our high school student this summer, Katelyn Bhattacharia. Katelyn goes to Ossining High School and this is her second year joining us to learn about tissue-resident macrophages in the lungs.
We are delighted to welcome Summer (Sumra) Chaudhry to #TeamKhanna for the next 2 months. Summer is joining us via the SURP program at NYU Langone. Summer has worked with Dr. Erin Harberts at Townson University where she worked on investigating LPS structure modifications. Summer has deep interest in immune response to cancer and is closely working with Eric Bartnicki in lab.
It was a pleasure to have Yanjun Tan (NYU Langone Vilcek grad) in lab this spring/summer quarter. Yanjun worked closely with Payal and Stephen in lab, who guided her into uncovering the macrophage ontogeny using our transgenic systems. Yanjun gave a fantastic lab meeting today and we wish her all the best for her future endeavors. Yanjun Tan moves on from her rotation co-mentored by Payal and Stephen.
Congratulations to Payal for being selected as the Bernard Levine Postdoctoral Fellow 2023-2024. So much great science to come from this award! This is a highly prestigious award given to 2 fellows each year. Read more about Dr. Bernard Levine, here:
https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/nytimes/name/bernard-levine-obituary?id=12628123 We are thrilled to welcome Mimi Kostoska, our new PhD student, to #TeamKhanna. Mimi did her undergraduate work at Yale and comes to us with excellent science and immunology background. We are so excited to see all the amazing things you'll do in lab! Stephen's LPS paper is out is Cell reports! Read it here!
We had a great time hosting Joe and Mimi this semester. Joe did a beautiful study evaluating the impact of IAV infection in a variety of conditional knockout models as well as worked closely with Payal on very elegant multiOme analyses. Mimi worked closely with Stephen in developing Listeria models in conditional knockouts and have really nailed down some important techniques and learned a lot about CD169+ macrophages. Both the lab meeting presentations were fantastic and we are very excited for these two bright young scientists and their upcoming endeavors!
Congrats to Payal for being awarded the Jan T. Vilcek Fellowship for the 2022-2023. This is a tremendous honor for the lab. With this funding, Payal will continue to work on uncovering the mechanisms by which tissue-resident macrophage subpopulations function in distinct and critical ways to resolve injury and infection, as well as maintain tissue homeostasis!
This work will support the ongoing work Payal has been doing in lab (look out for her manuscripts this year) and will be a fundamental resource to the lung-resident macrophage field. |