2025
Second week of cake madness 2025-grand finale.
Nolan presented his work at the UROP Symposium and got Blue Ribbon!
Breana gave a talk about her work at the UROP Symposium and got the Best Presentation award!
2024
Group picture at CSHL Retroviruses Meeting 2024. From left to right: Ricardo, Tomoyuki, Akira, and Rajat.
Rajat, Ricardo, Kai-Neng, Akira, and Bia to watch the solar eclipse 2024.
From left to right: Ricardo, Rajat, Chris, Akira, Bia, Kai-Neng, and Tomoyuki.
2023
Kazuaki Monde (left, back), a former postdoc in the lab and now an assistant prof at Kumamoto University, visited us at Ann Arbor!
Group picture at CSHL Retroviruses Meeting. From left to right: Tomoyuki, Kazu (former lab member, now Asst.Prof at Kumamoto Univ.), Akira, Ricardo, Rajat, and Cristina.
The department celebrated Tomoyuki's promotion to Research Assistant Professor! Congrats, Tomoyuki!
Halloween
2022
[from left to right] Tomoyuki Murakami, Rajat Mudgal, Akira Ono, Ricardo de Souza Cardoso, and Cristina Santos da Costa.
Happy holidays...in person and inside!
Chris defended his thesis successfully!
We won the third place (and donuts) in the M&I Holiday Door Decor Competition!
Belated celebration of Dishari's successful thesis defense. Also, a bittersweet farewell for her. Best wishes for Dishari's next adventure!
2021
[from left to right] Akira Ono, Rajat Mudgal, Vicky Wang, Dishari Thornhill, Chris Sumner, Ricardo de Souza Cardoso, and Tomoyuki Murakami.
Holiday zoom 2021. Cozy indoor and safer for our youngest associate!
2020
-----transition from in-person to zoom
Ricardo is going back to Brazil after 6 months of PhD study abroad in our lab. See you soon, Ricardo!
Sukhmani (on the left middle) received 2020 MacNeal Award (the department best thesis award)!! Congratulations!
Congratulations, Nancy!
(Nancy graduated with Bachelor of Science in Microbiology)[from left to right] Amanda Haag, Chris Sumner, Nancy Carmona, Dishari Thornhill, Sukhmani Bedi, Tomoyuki Murakami, and Akira Ono
Congratulations, Dishari!
(for the Best Poster Prize at 11th IRNCAS in 2019)[from left to right] Akira Ono, Chris Sumner, Tomoyuki Murakami, Sukhmani Bedi, Dishari Mukherjee, and Amanda Haag
(not shown: Nancy Carmona)
We had a power outage!
Contestants of annual M&I Hotdog Eating Competition
Surprise party... for what?
[from left to right] Dishari Mukherjee, Priya Begani, Tomoyuki Murakami, Akira Ono, Amber and Chris Sumner, and Sukhmani Bedi
[from left to right] Dishari Mukhejee, Sukhmani Bedi, Akira Ono, Chris Sumner, Balaji Olety Amaranath, and Tomoyuki Murakami
[from left to right] Jingga Inlora, Sukhmani Bedi,Tomoyuki Murakami, Balaji Olety Amaranath, Justin O'Neal, Jenni Chung, and Akira Ono
[from left to right] Balaji Olety Amaranath, Sukhmani Bedi, Jenni Chung, Akira Ono, Justin O'Neal, Gabrielle Todd, and Jingga Inlora
[from left to right] Jenni Chung, Gabrielle Todd, Ed Trubin, Jingga Inlora, Jonathan Grover, Akira Ono, and Balaji Olety Amaranath
[from left to right] Jenni Chung, Akira Ono, Jingga Inlora, Alexander Myong, Nick Llewellyn, Jonathan Grover, and Balaji Olety Amaranath
(not shown: Gabrielle Todd and Ed Trubin)
[from left to right] Jonathan Grover, Balaji Olety Amaranath, Vineela Chukkapalli, Kazuaki Monde, Jingga Inlora, Nick Llewellyn, and Akira Ono
(not shown: Alexander Myong)
[from left to right] Vineela Chukkapalli, Ian Hogue, Jingga Inlora, Jonathan Grover, Madeline Nye, Jay Oh, Nick Llewellyn, Kazuaki Monde, and Akira Ono
[from left to right] Jay Oh, Nick Llewellyn, Jingga Inlora, Akira Ono, Ian Hogue, Vineela Chukkapalli, and Leslie Goo
[from left to right] Akira Ono, Vineela Chukkapalli, Ian Hogue, and Alexandra Lecorps