Congrats to Saraswathy for receiving a position in the inaugural SWIMMER cohort! This NSF Research Training program supports graduate students studying water ecosystems. Saraswathy’s thesis work is on the immunotoxic effects of copper in threespine stickleback.
Lab News
Congrats to 2022 Graduates!
Lab members Maeve Moynihan, Kelli Burke, Elsa Diffo, and Mary Tibbetts graduated in May of 2022! We’ll miss them in the lab!
Steinel Lab Attends Immunology 2022 in Portland OR
In May 2022 Ahmed Attaya, Abdelmounaim Nouri, Saraswathy Vaidyanathan, Alexandra Collias, and Natalie Steinel attended the AAI Immunology 2022 Conference in Portland Oregon. Everyone presented posters and Ahmed also presented a talk.
Gordon Sears completes Honors Project in Steinel Lab
Congrats to Undergraduate Gordon Sears on the successful completion of his honors project: “The effects of copper exposure on the threespine stickleback immune system”.
Dr. Steinel featured on SSE new faculty page
The Society for the Study of Evolution has featured Dr. Steinel on their new faculty page.
Steinel Lab members win UML Research Symposium awards
Congrats to Kelli Burke, Alex Collias, and Mary Tibbetts on their winning 90s lightening talks at the 23rd annual UML Student Research and Community Engagement Symposium. Immersive Scholar students Kelli and Mary presented their work on tardigrade genomics and immunity and Alex presented her masters work on parasite-mediated immunosuppression. All of the videos can be viewed here.
Summer student, Maeve Moynihan, featured on UML website
Steinel Lab featured on UML website
An article highlighting the lab’s current projects and the recently acquired NIH Grant funding this research.
Postdoctoral Research Associate position open
The Steinel Lab is hiring a postdoctoral research associate. Please submit applications via the HR websiite.