The Dennehy Lab

Congratulations to Carmen Urgiles! She was accepted into the Summer Research Program at University of Iowa. She will be working with Dr. Maurine Neiman on the evolution of sex.

Congratulations to Sangeetha Tandalam! She was accepted into the Summer Research Program at Albert Einstein College of Medicine.

04/27/16 Please join us on Friday, May 13th at 3 pm for Lauren A. Esposito’s Masters thesis defense. The defense of her thesis, “The evolutionary interpretations of viral host range and biodiversity through the analysis of codon usage bias”, will take place in the Science Building (SB) room D139. Refreshments will follow in SB D348 at 4:30pm.

L-R: Fraida, Carmen, Elsa, Vincent. Not pictured: Lauren who was probably taking the picture.

Congrats to Texas A&M for recruiting Marko Baloh to their PhD program where he intends to continue research in microbiology. Predictably, Marko will probably gain an interest in college football and add the phrase “Gig ’em Aggies!” to his verbal repertoire.

04/02/16 Soon-to-be lab alumna Lauren Esposito is off to Mount Sinai this Fall to start a MPH in Epidemiology. Amazing work Lauren!

03/22/16 Please join us in congratulating Swati Gupta (BA ’15). She will be leaving us for the Accelerated Professional Master’s program in Cytotechnology at Thomas Jefferson University. Congrats Swati!

Emily, Elsa, Carmen, James, Marko and John attended the 1st Annual EEB Retreat at the Poconos Environmental Education Center.

Check out more photos in the gallery section!

9/2/2015 – Congratulations to Dr. Brian Ford who successfully defended his dissertation entitled,  Pseudomonas Bacteriophage Φ6 as a Model for Virus Emergence. Well done, Brian!

Brian is joining the Mechano Micro Biology Lab at Brooklyn College as a postdoctoral associate.

08/07/15 Lab lunch to see off David Toubiyan to med school in the Caribbean and Lixing He back to Penn State.