Congrats to Nick for graduating with his PhD in MCB!

Congratulations to Rita for Graduating with her PhD in Plant and Microbiology! (You can guess which one she worked on…)

Our newest paper “Autophagy restricts Mycobacterium tuberculosis during acute infection in mice” has been published in Nature Microbiology!

Congratulations to our graduate student, Christine “The Poster Queen” Qabar, on winning the Best Poster award at the Annual Student Microbiology Symposium this past weekend!

Congratulations to our graduate student Ellie on passing her qualify exams!

Two new lab members who joined us as staff researchers this past academic year! Laura Britt joined us in August of 2022 and Linda Del Cid just recently joined us in March of 2023!

Rita McCall, a Cox lab graduate student, has just earned an NSF Graduate Research Fellowships Program Award for her proposed research project: “Uncovering the regulatory network that drives morphological fate switching in Mycobacterium avium”! Kelsey Hern, a Cox lab graduate rotation student, has also earned an honorable mention for this award for her proposed project: “Investigating the Role of Cyclic-di-GMP in Host-Phage Interactions”!