Summer is Going Great Guns!

At our end of term party, Paige Harman invented what we hope will be the first of many Hanley lab bespoke cocktails – The Positive Control

Eduardo Hernandez Acosta started a post-doctoral fellowship in the lab of Allison Kell at University of New Mexico

Kathy and many of her CREATE-NEO partners participated in the annual CREID meeting in Rockville, MD (where she discovered Sheba restaurant…such good Ethiopian food!)

Helene Cecilia posted the first Trade-Off paper on biorxiv

Immunologically mediated trade-offs shaping transmission of sylvatic dengue and Zika viruses in native and novel non-human primate hosts.

Hanley KA, Cecilia H, Azar SR, Moehn B, Yu W, Yun R, Althouse BM, Vasilakis N, Rossi SL.bioRxiv. 2023 Jun 30:2023.06.30.547187. doi: 10.1101/2023.06.30.547187. Preprint.PMID: 37425901 

Lawrence Zhou was accepted to VEME (https://veme.climade.health/) in South Africa

Lawrence and Jeremy Rascon headed back to Chiapas for a season of field work

Kathy gave an invited talk at the Gordon Research conference on the Evolution and Ecology of Natural Microbial Communities (https://www.grc.org/microbial-population-biology-conference/2023/)

Kathy and the other speakers in her GRC session....AFTER the talks!

Kathy gave double-decker talks at UC Davis for the Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology as well as the Designated Emphasis in the Biology of Vector-Borne Disease

Flyer DEBVBD Symposium 2023

Andrew Montoya, Jenna Wainwright and Kalli Sparks joined the lab

Kathy and Nik Vasilakis and Shannan Rossi traveled to Panama to meet with our partners at Gorgas

Why are Panamanian raccoons so sexy???

Sadly, Kathy’s very ancient dog Coco passed away…we genuinely thought she might be immortal

Coco, a Good Dog

The Spring Semester was Hopping in the Hanley Lab!

Eduardo Hernandez Acosta (Dr. Eddie!) successfully defended his PhD

Eduardo Graduation

Lanie Whelpley successfully defended her Masters and was accepted to the University of New Mexico School of Medicine

Lanie gets accepted to medical school

Jordan Gass was accepted to a PhD program at the University of New Mexico

Brett Moehn was accepted to a PhD program at Colorado State University

Marissa Padilla was accepted to a summer internship at Harvard University

Ayana Pai was accepted to a summer internship at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center

Paige Harman was accepted into an IRES summer research fellowship in Brunei (Kathy died of envy)

Kathy traveled to Argentina to work with Carina Sen and Malala Martin on their CREID pilot studies of rodent-borne viruses

Tucuman province, Argentina

The VSV gang (Lawrence, Lanie, Jeremy, Brett and Kathy) traveled to Plum Island (no photos allowed, sadly) for a Grand Challenge meeting.  We stayed in the prettiest possible Airbnb, and Jeremy has decided to give up science for life on the sea (just kidding?)

Adam Hendy’s most recent paper on bridge vector ecology in Manaus was published in PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases:
Where boundaries become bridges: Mosquito community composition, key vectors, and environmental associations at forest edges in the central Brazilian Amazon.

Hendy A, Hernandez-Acosta E, Valério D, Fé NF, Mendonça CR, Costa ER, Andrade ES, Andes Júnior JT, Assunção FP, Scarpassa VM, Lacerda MVG, Buenemann M, Vasilakis N, Hanley KA. PLoS Negl Trop Dis. 2023 Apr 26;17(4):e0011296. doi: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0011296.

Betania Drumond’s CREID pilot study was published Adam Hendy’s most recent paper on bridge vector ecology in Manaus was published in PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases:

Ecological drivers of sustained enzootic yellow fever virus transmission in Brazil, 2017-2021.