Summer has flown by! Lots of changes and things to clink glasses to around here…

• The lab had our first annual retreat in Sonoma

• New research tech Sebastian Flores started and is chromato-gramming up a storm

• Kristine was awarded the iMicro fellowship for 2019-2020

• Our newly minted PhD Candidate Fauna was selected as a HHMI Gilliam Fellow

• Calla Martyn has joined the lab to apply her bioinformatics wizardry to study tick-microbe interactions

• Seemay was named a Pew Biomedical Scholar and dyed her hair (unrelated)

• And today we bid farewell to our beloved Summer Research Training Program student Eleanor Wang, aka resident lysis assay expert and Kombucha taster-in-chief.