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GW Microbiology, Immunology, and Tropical Medicine Retreat - Dr. Hovel-Miner and Students (Indea Rogers, Kenna Berg, and Hayley Ramirez) share their data at our annual departmental retreat.

Graduate students Kenna Berg and Hayley Ramirez Present posters at PAraCon 2023

Graduate students Kenna Berg and Hayley Ramirez Present posters at Molecular Parasitology Meeting (MPM) 2023 in Woods Hole, MA

Preprint available for new manuscript

Every pathogen faces a similar predicament of how to exploit nutrient-rich, but often inhospitable, host environments.

African trypanosomes establish deadly, chronic infections of trypanosomiasis in the bloodstream by using repetitive 70-bp regions in the genome to regularly change out the active coat protein gene.

Expression of the human NUP98-HOXA9 oncoprotein during eye development in Drosophila leads to eye-to-wing transdetermination.

In February 2016, the Hovel-Miner lab has been joined by new Senior Research Assistant Stephanie Gomez.

Galadriel Hovel-Miner, PhD, who had previously been a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Laboratory of Lymphocyte Biology at Rockefeller University in New York, has joined the Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Tropical Medicine in December 2015 as a new Assistant Professor. Dr. Hovel-Miner…