Lorellin Durnell @lorellin_d
PhD candidate @ University of Iowa • Sinn Lab • Viruses are cool 🦠 • https://t.co/h0qinO00ay • views are my own! Joined April 2022-
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Apparently my title is too long for Whova, but if you’re interested in EBOV tropism in the mouse peritoneal membrane and spleen, come to my flash⚡️talk on Tues at 4:48 pm in Athena CD room and/or poster Tues at 5 pm (P37-37)! #ASV2023 #UGA #EBOV #LOVEVIROLOGY
#ASV2023 delivers with a full double rainbow. I’m naming the next virus I discover (so the first one) after this.
My co-first author paper with Paige McCaslin from the lab of @MaryWeb15082904 was accepted and published at IAI! In this manuscript we identify and offer preliminary characterizations of NEW Type III secreted effectors in Chlamydia trachomatis journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/ia…
Congratulations to the predoctoral recipients of the NIH T32 Training Grant: Molecular Virology, Viral Pathogenesis, and Viral Vectors! Lorellin Durnell Paige Richards Anthony Rojas-Chávez Noah Schuster 📷 This grant is effective from June 1, 2023, to May 31, 2024!🦠🔬
First first-author pub hot off the press: pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn… I’m very excited to share my first research manuscript from my dissertation work!! Very grateful to all the authors who contributed and special thank you to @MaryWeb15082904 for all her guidance and support. 🧵 1/x
Today! MICROBIOLOGY THESIS SEMINAR PhD candidate – Yifeng Zhang on 5/25 at 1 PM in MERF 2117 "The ISG15 antimicrobial chronicle: a fable narrated by Listeria monocytogenes" Zoom details: [email protected] @uiowabiomed @UIGradCollege
🎉 Big shoutout to Paige McCaslin for winning the award for Best Staff Poster Presentation and Lorellin Durnell for Best Graduate Student Poster Presentation for their outstanding entries at the Dept. Retreat and 85th Anniversary Celebration! 🏆 Shine Bright! ✨@UIGradCollege
Had an amazing time at @MMPConference . So much exciting science! Now on to #LakesidePTE2022. Also thanks to Jaby our outstanding photographer 😉
BREAKING: The first case of mosquito born fentanyl overdose reported in Florida. “I was handcuffing a suspect and saw the mosquito go from his arm straight to mine. I overdosed immediately and kept overdosing all the way to the hospital.” -Corporal Chad Blaze, Miami PD
NEW: The University of Iowa surpasses Harvard, Princeton as the #2 university in the country for writing. Iowa is the only public university in the top ten. The ranking recognizes the importance of teaching writing and communication in all disciplines. spr.ly/6013MPsXT
Several staff from the Department investigate the causes of Bacterial Meningitis with Indigenous High School students from the Iowa First Nations Summer Camp this summer. @TheresaHo_Micro @UIowaMicroDEI
current obsession is getting pillows made for trainees with their first big paper printed on the front. science office decor.
Congratulations to Microbiology graduate student Sylvia Faurot who passed her thesis. She begins her new position soon as a researcher at Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science. @uiowabiomed @UIGradCollege
Current and former @msdiamondlab members including @meizi_liu4 @lbthackray @lorellin_d @NMKafai Brett Case @Blargsky @HydeLab @ChrisBStudious @Roy_047 Arthur Kim @FeverLab and @LabRichner with @VogtVirusLab as the senior member at this #ASV2022!
I had such an amazing experience sharing my research at the #MeVMiniSymposium! Next up: #ASV2022!
Look for the current and former members of @msdiamondlab at #ASV2022. Current: @ChrisBStudious, @NMKafai, @Roy_047, Pritesh Desai, @meizi_liu4, Brett Case; Former: @lorellin_d, @HydeLab, @LazearLab, @Blargsky, @LabRichner!!!
Look for the current and former members of @msdiamondlab at #ASV2022. Current: @ChrisBStudious, @NMKafai, @Roy_047, Pritesh Desai, @meizi_liu4, Brett Case; Former: @lorellin_d, @HydeLab, @LazearLab, @Blargsky, @LabRichner!!!
MICROBIOLOGY THESIS SEMINAR MS candidate – Sylvia Faurot on 7/14 at 2PM in BSB 1-107 “Splenic Hypoxia During Early-Stage Plasmodium Infection Promotes Extrafollicular Plasmablast Differentiation” Zoom details: [email protected] @uiowabiomed @UIGradCollege

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