The summer has flown by and among the highlights were several lab potlucks. The photos above don’t do it justice, but our team has some amazing cooking skills. Reasons for our gatherings included: 1) the receipt of institutional training grants…

Last weekend was our annual lab Holiday Party, and we took the occasion to celebrate the recent accomplishments of a couple of our graduate students. Owen Jensen and Daniel Labuz, students in the Molecular Biology graduate program, passed their prelims!…

As we mentioned in a previous post, recently at the ASTMH conference, we held a kickoff meeting for a project titled, “Development of a Bayesian diagnostic for etiological management of pediatric diarrhea.” This project is funded by the Bill &…

  Last week, 5 members of our group attended the Annual Meeting of the ASTMH (American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene) in New Orleans. We experienced some amazing Cajun food, street Jazz, and of course, the charms of the…

Over the summer, we’ve had a couple of bittersweet parties, where we celebrated achievements, welcomed new PhD students, and sent off two of our lab members. Michael Graves is leaving us to attend medical school in Iowa, and Cole Anderson…

Last week, we went out to Asian Tao to celebrate a few of our team’s recent achievements: 1) We received an R01 award, a 5-year grant from the NIH/NIAID. We will be working in collaboration with scientists at the icddr,b in Dhaka,…

Congratulations to Anita Iyer, PhD, postdoctoral fellow in our lab, who has been selected to receive an ASTMH (American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene) Annual Meeting Award, supported in part by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. She will…

Congratulations to our Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP) recipients for their poster presentations at recent research conferences! Joe Fuell presented a poster on “Immune Response to Native American Antidiarrheals” at the Utah Conference on Undergraduate Research in February (left photo),…

The Leung lab has been awarded a grant from the University of Utah’s Center for Clinical and Translational Science and Program in Personalized Health to identify biomarkers for refractory Clostridium difficile infection. Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) is the most common…

Congratulations to our 3 University of Utah Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP) grantees! Amanda, Joe, and Mait all received summer stipends to work on their research projects in our lab.  Amanda Barrett The purpose of my UROP project is to…