July 29, 2022 was a wonderful evening to celebrate the progress we've made on malaria in the past year. The lab team, families, significant others, and friends gathered at the Murphy's house for toasts, ping pong, dinner, and lots of camaraderie. Congrats to Dr. Dianna Hergott for completing her PhD this year and to PhD candidates Felicia Watson and Caroline Duncombe for obtaining fellowship funding support. Congrats also to faculty member Dr. Melanie Shears for obtaining her first fundable score on an NIH R21 grant! Cheers to the MMDL team of Mariko Seilie, Chris Chavtur, Weston Staubus, and Dr. Ming Chang for a successful CAP inspection and for tremendous progress on numerous clinical trial projects including a local CHMI study, an important clinical trial in sub-Saharan Africa, and an ongoing FDA project. Congrats and thanks to our vaccine production team led by Anya Kalata who has been busy at work producing high-quality DNA vaccines to support our mouse and non-human primate studies. Dr. Rebekah Reynolds was hailed for her leadership of our U01 project, which just had its first major publication in Nature Communications with Dr. Hai-Quan Mao's laboratory at Johns Hopkins. Dr. Reynolds and Sam Mak are also making amazing progress with the UW-based insectary that we share with Dr. Marion Pepper's nearby UW laboratory. Finally, thanks to our newer lab members Dr. Naveen Yadav, Dr. Ken Boey, Shruthi Shankar Raman, Ethan Conrad, and Emily Scott who are all making great contributions to our team. Finally, thanks to Dr. Reynolds as well for teaching us how to sabre champagne bottles in celebration of all of these achievements!
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