Fall 2024 so far...
September 2024
Hanley lab came out in force for the meeting of the Rio Grande branch of the American Society for Microbiology. Carleen Silva won second place for graduate student oral presentations, and Andrew Montoya won third place for undergraduate student poster presentations!
From left: Carleen Silva, Josh Wojahn, Celia Lopez, Andrew Montoya, Kathy, Lindsey Biehler
August 2024
El Paso International Airport has an amazing new art exhibit featuring interpretations of El Imperio Ancestral Del Xoloitzcuintle. This isn’t Hanley lab news per se, but we all spend so much time in this airport and we are dazzled by this installation!
One of many interpretations of Xoloitzcuintle, the legendary dog of the Aztecs
August 2024
Kathy is teaching her class on Biology of Emerging Infectious Diseases for the tenth time; this time, mpox and Oropouche viruses have been added to the syllabus.
Oropouche virus is also known as “sloth fever”. Picture credit: World Wildlife Foundation
August 2024
Lindsey Biehler joined the lab as a PhD student; welcome, Lindsey!
Lindsey and Pica de Gato
August 2024
Kathy traveled to Mexico City along with Steph Seifert (WSU) to kick off the pilot research program of Jesus Torres (IPN).
From left: Kathy, Jesus Torres, and Steph Seifert in front of a beautiful church door in Coyoacan, Mexico City
August 2024
Lawrence Zhou returned to Chiapas for his study of VSV in forest habitats.
Edilberto Hernandez, “Santa” Irene Lopez, Nathan Penagos, Lawrence Zhou
June 2024
Carleen Silva and her intrepid field assistants headed to Pecos, NM, to investigate Sin Nombre virus.
From left: Carleen Silva, Kaleb Villegas, Eliana Ortega
May 2024
CREATE-NEO team members assembled at the CREID meeting in Durham, NC.
CREATE-NEO team members at the CREID meeting in Durham, NC
May 2024
Kathy along with Barbara Han and Adrian Castellanos (both Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies) traveled to the Darien province of Panama to investigate emerging alphaviruses with the crack team of JP Carrera, Anayansi Valderrama, Luis Felipe Rivera, and their army of assistants. If there was a minor shipwreck and we did sing a chorus of “My Heart Will Go On”, well, that can’t be proven.
(From right) Luis Felipe, Barbara, Adrian, Kathy, and the healthcare providers of Hospital El Real de Santa Maria
May 2024
High school student scholar Megan Legault graduates Las Cruces High and heads to Harvard University. MARC undergrad scholar Marissa Padilla graduates and enters a PhD program at Penn State University. Undergrad scholar Jenna Wainwright graduates and heads to Albuquerque for an education Masters that will move her into teaching in the public schools there. Bravo to all!
(From left) Marissa Padilla, Megan Legault, Kathy, Paige Harman, Jenna Wainwright
May 2024
Paige Harman completed her Biology Masters degree and set off for USDA in Manhattan, Kansas, where she will be an ORISE fellow.
All We Are is Dust in the Wind (and Paige is going to Kansas, get it?)
May 2024
Kathy, Lawrence Zhou, and Jess Martin traveled to Colorado for the biannual VSV meeting and saw some familiar faces!
(From left) Jessica Martin, Brett Moehn, Federico Valdez, Kathy, Stacey Scroggs, Lawrence Zhou
April 2024
Andrew Montoya wins best undergraduate poster at the NMSU Biosymposium!
Andrew is a winner and Kathy is a Plaque Assay Princess
March 2024
Kathy traveled to the Pantanal in Brazil to work with post-doc Kristin Sloyer and colleague Daniel Aguiar on Kristin’s study of the effect of flooding on arboviral emergence.
Kathy and Kristin still smiling in 104°F heat!
January 2024
Kathy traveled to Costa Rica with her USDA collaborators to launch the VSV project there.
(From left) Luis Rodriguez (USDA), Carlos Jimenez (UNA, Costa Rica), the farm manager, Kathy, Chad Mire (USDA), and Bernal Leon (SENASA, Costa Rica)
