UAMS researcher Lu Huang, Ph.D., has received a $3.7 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to support his pursuit of a more effective tuberculosis (TB) vaccine, a feat that has eluded scientists for more than 100 years.

Presentations Our undergraduate interns completed their summer programs on July 26. This culminated in the presentation of their research in the Arkansas Undergraduate Summer Research Symposium last July 24, 2024 here at UAMS. Congratulations to all the students! They are: Oral Presentation (12 chosen from 53 submissions) Allie Farrar, Hendrix College (Manzano Lab), pictured above […]

Presentations by Trainees in International Meetings LeKivia Cobb (Boehme Lab), oral presentation at the American Society for Virology Annual Meeting at Columbus, OH last June 25. Steven Murdock, Jr. (Forrest Lab), oral presentation at the International Symposium on EBV and KSHV and Related Agents and Diseases at Boston, MA last July 3. Shana Owens, Ph.D. […]

Bacterial pathogens are coated by a wide array of glycan layers that protect against antimicrobials, immune systems, and environmental hazards. Though formidable, these protective layers harbor a critical weakness: most are assembled on a vulnerable lipid carrier known as undecaprenyl phosphate (Und-P). While most studies have focused on the consequences of decreasing Und-P levels, very […]

Dr. Ashley Groshong is an alumnus of our Ph.D. program in Microbiology & Immunology (2014). Working in the laboratory of Dr. Jon Blevins, she studied virulence factors of the Lyme disease spirochete, Borrelia burgdorferi. She continued her work on B. burgdorferi as a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Connecticut Health Center focusing on gene […]

We welcome eight undergraduates joining MBIM labs for their Summer Research Programs. They are: Youssef Baghat, University of South Carolina (Forrest Lab) Nicole Chong, UC Berkeley (Lee Lab) Allie Farrar, Hendrix College (INBRE, Manzano Lab) Armari Jackson, Arkansas State University (SURP, Aachoui Lab) Kalayna King, Arkansas State University (SURP, Liu Lab) Brianna Lee, Xavier University […]

Lucy Fry, fourth year Ph.D. student, Weinkopff Lab) won the best poster (Graduate Student category) in this year’s Student Research Day (SRD) on March 5, 2024, which highlighted her parasitology project involving a non-healing form of cutaneous leishmaniasis caused by Leishmania amazonensis.

The Department of Microbiology and Immunology hosted the American Society for Microbiology South Central Branch Meeting at the Statehouse Convention Center last November 10-11. Close to 200 scientists and trainees from Arkansas, Louisiana, and Mississippi participated in the two-day event and shared their work in the plenary and poster sessions.  This include several trainees from […]

UAMS now officially has a chapter of the American Society of Microbiology for students and postdoctoral trainees.