Do you have questions about the COVID-19 vaccine? Do you have concerns about whether you should get vaccinated or not? In this seminar, Dr. Tokuyama, a viral immunologist in the Department of Microbiology & Immunology, provides an overview of how the COVID-19 vaccine works and how the vaccine generates an immune response that protects us against severe disease caused by SARS-CoV-2. The discussion is a live recording about why vaccination is important for individuals and the larger community, and a Q&A session. Dr. Tokuyama is a new faculty in the... Read More
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Monday, July 26, 2021
HOW A VACCINE IS MADE FACTS The COVID-19 vaccine was created in under a year. Despite this, NO safety shortcuts were taken. There is no live COVID-19 virus in the vaccine so you will not get COVID from getting vaccinated. 3 COMPONENTS OF A VACCINE FORMULATION 1. The antigen – Picking one or more components of the disease-causing organism that you want to mount an immune response to 2. The adjuvant – Generates signals that will fully trigger the immune response to those antigens... Read More
Tuesday, June 29, 2021
César de la Fuente, a Ph.D. graduate (2014) and Postdoctoral Fellow (2015) from the Hancock lab, has been awarded the 2021 CSM Thermo Fisher Scientific Award, which recognizes new researchers in the microbiological sciences! “It is an honor, particularly given the caliber of individuals that have been previously recognized. I am truly humbled,” says de la Fuente. “This recognition means a lot to me, particularly in a year that has been dominated by a microbe, emphasizing the importance of microbiology research to improve our world.... Read More
Tuesday, June 8, 2021
By Dr. Moritz Koch, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Hallam Lab Climate change represents potentially the biggest environmental threat to human kind since our existence. Still, our chemical industry relies mostly on the usage of fossil resources for the production of various products, such as plastics, chemicals, or fuels. In my work with microalgae, we describe an alternative process that sequesters CO2 from the atmosphere and allows a carbon-neutral production of all these products. This could allow us to transform our industry: away from... Read More
Tuesday, May 18, 2021
“It feels awesome to start a new project in a new place with this kind of momentum. It’s a really special kind of welcome and motivation,” shares Jen Nguyen, a postdoc who joined Carolina Tropini’s lab in January 2021. Nguyen recently received the Killam Award Fellowship for her postdoctoral research and is very excited about her placement in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology. “I'm indebted to mentors who have believed in and advocated for me, and in doing so, taught me how to do that for myself. Carolina also has ... Read More