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New Equipment

October 27, 2023

We have a new MIMG plate reader that will be installed in the common equipment room on the 4th floor on Nov 14th. Training will also be available and provided by Agilent (BioTek). Please email Sebastiaan Bol to register for this training (time will be announced later). We listened to your wishes and feel this […]


Congratulations Dr. Nu Zhang

October 27, 2023

Dr. Zhang received a fundable score on his recent R01 application – “Lymphoid residency of Tcf-1 + CD8+ T cells during tumor vaccine responses.”


Congratulations Dr. Ann Griffith

October 27, 2023

Dr. Griffith received a fundable score on her recent R01 application – “The role of paracrine growth factor signaling in thymus function and age-associated dysfunction.”



Welcome – Allison Nino

October 27, 2023

Please join us in giving a Texas sized welcome to Ms. Allison Nino, our new MIMG Program Coordinator!  Allison comes to us with several years of academic experience as both a teacher, student advisor and mentor for both UTSA and Texas Lutheran University for undergraduate and graduate students.   She will be assisting Dr’s. Berton, Wickes […]




Enventure San Antonio Seminar

October 3, 2023

Carlo Vanz was a speaker at the Enventure San Antonio seminar. The title of his presentation was “My experience in graduate school and Transitioning into Consulting.”  




Congratulations – Dr. Carlos Rivera

October 3, 2023

Carlos Rivera is a San Antonio Postdoc Research Forum (SAPRF) 2023 Awardee for his poster presentation “Intrinsic B cell TLR-BCR linked coengagement induces class-switched, hypermutated, neutralizing antibody responses in absence of T cells.”  Carlos was one of approximately 200 presenters.




MIMG’s Magnificent 7 – Yanan “Jackie” Zhu, Ph.D.

October 3, 2023

No project information available at the time of publication.




MIMG’s Magnificent 7 – Wei-Bei Wang, Ph.D.

October 3, 2023

No project information available at the time of publication.




MIMG’s Magnificent 7 – Carlo Vanz, Ph.D.

October 3, 2023

Application of obesity mouse model to begin exploring why obesity causes a decrease in vaccine efficacy.




MIMG’s Magnificent 7 – Cheshta Sharma, Ph.D.

October 3, 2023

Working on the elucidation of novel molecular mechanisms of antifungal resistance and virulence in a multidrug resistant human fungal pathogen, Candida auris.