News

2024

  • Erick Perez awarded Molecular Microbiology Training Grant Fellowship 
  • Cole Moore, undergraduate from Tarleton State University, joins the lab as a SURF student
  • The lab publishes collaborative study using sACE2 as SARS-CoV-2 inhibitor in mBio
  • Emi Nakahara accorded an Honorable Mention in the 2024 NGraduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) competition
  • Matt McDougal defends dissertation
  • The lab welcome graduate student Anthony De Maria
  • The lab welcomes PSTP fellow Cameron Lander MD, PhD

2023

  • The lab publishes SARS-CoV-2/COVID-19 collaborations in Cell Reports and Biomedicine & Pharmacotherapy
  • The lab welcomes Beutler Institute undergraduate researcher Jie (Claire) Lin
  • Matt McDougal publishes first author study on cooperativity of ISGs during antiviral responses in EMBO Reports
  • Alex Wells receives HHMI Hanna Gray Award
  • Sung-Yeon Hwang receives National Research Foundation Fellowship from South Korea
  • Katrina Mar publishes first author study on the role of LY6E during coronavirus pathogenesis in vivio in Nature Microbiology
  • Maikke Ohlson publishes first author study on discovery of viral host dependency factors in MBio
  • Anthony De Maria receives a National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) Award
  • The lab welcome graduate student Emi Nakahara

2022

  • The lab publishes SARS-CoV-2/COVID-19 collaborations in Clinical Immunology, Clinical Chemistry, Circulation, Elife
  • The lab welcomes postdoctoral researcher Sung-Yeon Hwang PhD
  • The lab welcomes postdoctoral researcher Qi Tang PhD
  • Wenchun Fan publishes first author paper on enterovirus strategy to evade TRIM7 in Journal of Virology
  • Jennifer Eitson publishes collaborative work with Tagliabraccci lab on SARS-CoV-2 capping in Nature
  • The lab welcomes Post-baccalaurate researcher Anthony De Maria
  • Matt McDougal, Ian Boys, and Pam De La Cruz Rivera publish review article on ISG evolution in Current Opinion in Virology
  • The lab receives grant from The Welch Foundation
  • The lab receives R01 grant from NIH
  • The lab welcomes postdoctoral researcher Alex Wells PhD
  • The lab welcome graduate student Erick Perez

2021

  • The lab publishes SARS-CoV-2/COVID-19 collaborations in Clinical Immunology, Clinical Chemistry, Circulation, Elife
  • Natasha Hanners published first author paper on Shiftless-mediated restriction of Zika virus in PNAS
  • Ian Boys publishes first author paper on the evolutionary diversification of antiviral RTP4 in Plos Genetics
  • Wenchun Fan publishes first author paper on TRIM7-mediated suppression of enteroviruses in Cell
  • Ian Boys defends dissertation
  • The lab welcomes Research Scientist Dr. Marley Van Dyke
  • Ian Boys receives the Nominata Award (highest honor given to UTSW grad student for excellence in research scholarship)

2020

  • The lab's work on COVID-19 is mentioned/featured in Time, Texas Monthly, and KERA/NPR
  • Katrina Mar published co-first author study on the discovery of LY6E as a coronavirus restriction factor in Nature Microbiology
  • Ian Boys publishes first author paper on the role of antiviral RTP4 in flavivirus-host genetic conflicts in Cell Host & Microbe
  • John Schoggins receives NIH Pioneer Award

2019

  • John Schoggins receives Innovation Award from American Lung Association
  • John Schoggins named 'Investigator in the Pathogenesis of Infectious Disease' from Burroughs Wellcome Fund
  • Nick Rinkenberger publishes first author paper on mechanisms of Zika virus entry in Virology
  • The lab receives grant from The Welch Foundation
  • Matt McDougal receives a National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) Award
  • Nick Rinkenberger defends dissertation
  • Natasha Hanners MD receives NIH K08 award
  • Katrina Mar defends dissertation
  • The lab welcomes graduate student Matt McDougal

2018

  • Blake Richardson defends dissertation
  • Blake Richardson publishes first author paper on antiviral IFI6 protein in Nature Microbiology
  • Pam De La Cruz Rivera published first author paper on IFN responses in bat cells in Journal of Immunology

2017

  • The lab welcomes postdoctoral researcher Wenchun Fan PhD
  • Matt McDougal returns for SURF #2
  • Jennifer Eitson promoted to Research Associate

2016

  • Natasha Hanners MD awarded a Scholar position on NIH-sponsored K12 program
  • Nick Rinkenberger awarded Molecular Microbiology Training Grant Fellowship
  • John Schoggins discusses Zika virus research with NPR affiliate KERA
  • Matt McDougal, undergraduate from LATech, joins the lab as a SURF student
  • Natasha Hanners publishes first author paper on Zika virus in neural progenitors in Cell Reports
  • Maikke Ohlson PhD joins the lab
  • Ian Boys receives a National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) Award
  • The Lab receives grant from The Clayton Foundation

2015

  • Natasha Hanners MD receives the W.W. Caruth Fellow Award

2014

  • John Schoggins is named Rita Allen Foundation Scholar, with distinction as the Foundation's Milton E. Cassel Scholar
  • Jennifer Eitson promoted to Research Assistant II
  • John Schoggins awarded NIH Director's New Innovator Award (DP2 Program)
  • The lab welcomes MD/PhD candidate Pam De La Cruz Rivera
  • Blake Richardson awarded Molecular Microbiology Training Grant Fellowship
  • Katrina Mar awarded Immunology Training Grant Fellowship
  • Ian Boys returns for SURF #2
  • Nick Rinkenberger receives Honorable Mention from National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP)

2013

  • The lab welcomes pediatric infectious disease fellow Natasha Hanners MD 
  • The lab welcomes graduate student Nick Rinkenberger j
  • Ian Boys, undergraduate from Baylor University, joins the lab as a SURF student
  • The lab welcomes lab manager Jennifer Eitson and graduate students Katrina Mar and Blake Richardson