July 2023The very first paper from the Wagar lab was published in
Immunity on July 20th! Time to celebrate! Check out the amazing paper from first-author Jenna Kastenschmidt (and several Wagar lab co-authors)
here. Based on this work, Jenna established a new working model of how vaccine format influences the magnitude and quality of the influenza responses.
June 2023
Congratulations to Kyle for completing his Bachelors degree in Computer Science! We're also celebrating the kickoff of the Wagar lab's first R01 grant, which will focus on identifying host factors that affect the immune response to flu.
May 2023
Welcome to Erika Joloya, who is officially joining us for her graduate studies after a successful spring rotation!
December 2022
Congratulations to Zach for winning second prize for his poster at UCI's Institute for Immunology annual symposium!
December 2022
Lisa, Suhas, Zach, and Jenna traveled to Boston for a Wellcome Leap HOPE program meeting. It was a fantastic meeting - very exciting to see the incredible progress from several labs and lots of fun to catch up with friends and collaborators.
October 2022
Congratulations to postdocs Jenna Kastenschmidt and Suhas Sureshchandra for receiving Society of Leukocyte Biology trainee travel awards! They did a great job representing the lab at the annual meeting in Hawaii. We also celebrated Canadian Thanksgiving at Lisa's house - how the lab and families have grown over the past year!
September 2022
The Wagar lab welcomes a flurry of trainees to the lab for the new academic year. A warm welcome to David Bojorquez (CMB rotation student), Kyle Batucal (Bio199 CS student), and Tim Yates (bioinformatics programmer).
August 2022
Congratulations to grad student Mahina Mitul on advancing to PhD candidacy. We're so proud of you Mahina, you nailed it!
August 2022We're excited to kickoff a new NIAID-funded project in collaboration with the rest of the
UCI Vaccine R&D Center! The project will focus on characterizing and understanding mechanisms of action underlying vaccine adjuvants. The Wagar lab will contribute to the data management and integrated multi-omics analysis efforts.
June 2022
Congratulations to (now alum) Aviv Benchorin for graduating! Aviv completed his BSc in Computer Science. We're grateful for Aviv's contributions to the lab (thoughtful analysis strategies for datasets of epic proportions) that culminated in a successful honors thesis project.
May 2022
We finally got our own 10X controller. Thx Zach for being a great backdrop to show off those GEMs!
May 2022Lisa, Suhas, and Zach traveled to Atlanta for the bi-annual
Wellcome Leap HOPE PI meeting. It was great to meet all the performers in person and to catch up with our amazing collaborators. Color coordination on point.
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April 2022
Graduate student Mahina Mitul received first prize for her oral presentation at the
SoCal Flow Summit. Way to go Mahina!
October 2021
The Wagar lab welcomes postdoc Suhas Sureshchandra to the lab. Welcome Suhas!
September 2021
The Wagar lab welcomes 4th year undergrad student Aviv Benchorin to the lab. Looking forward to seeing what Aviv will develop for his thesis project over the academic year!
May 2021
The Wagar lab welcomes graduate student Zach Wagoner to the lab. Zach enjoyed his spring rotation and decided to stay. Welcome Zach!
March 2021
Our team has been selected to contribute to the
Wellcome Leap HOPE program. We are very excited to address big and important questions in predicting immunogenicity in human tonsil organoids. Looking forward to meeting the other performers and establishing new collaborations!
October 2020
The Wagar lab welcomes its first members to the lab after several months of ordering equipment and patiently awaiting its arrival to Hewitt Hall! Welcome to grad student Mahina Mitul, assistant specialist Jenna Kastenschmidt, and research assistant Andrew Sorn.
