Lab life

Identifying Cre Driver Lines for Conditional Knockout of Defensins in Murine Tissues

Mikaila Labit and Maliha Batool

Identifying the ligand and downstream signalling associated with Mrgpra6

Zahra Janjua and Waris Khuwaja

Influence of Host Defensins on the Virulence of Staphylococcus aureus in ssaA and dltA mutants in an In vivo Skin Infection Model

Monica Thanigaivel, Matthew Thomas, Bhavani Balasundarasekar

Identifying the UPEC-related ligands for Mrgpra6 using calcium imaging

Landry Woodward and Waris Khuwaja

Spatial Mapping of Nociceptive Neuronal Subtypes in the Mouse Bladder

Kathleen Haliburton and Ridma Sirimanna

Winner of the 2025 School of Natural Sciences and Mathematics SPUR Award

The role of Mrgpra2 receptor in mediating neutrophil-T cell crosstalk in psoriasis

Joann N Truong and Sharan Kumar Balaji

Winner of the 2025 Erik Johnson School of Engineering and Computer Science SPUR Award

Stress Protection of mRNA with tardigrade IDPs for vaccine stability applications

Namyuktha Prakash, Selina Wang, Amanda Le, Maria Shaikh, Aaliyah Sherfuddin

UT Dallas IGEM Team

Independent Undergraduate Research Team mentored by Dr Dong & Dr Dingal

SPUR 2025

Summer Platform for Undergraduate Research