This Thursday Owen Jensen from the Daniel T Leung Lab will defend his doctoral thesis! 🗓️Thursday, Mar 9 at 11:30 am 📌Gesteland-White Auditorium, EIHG We'd like to wish him the best of luck!

Congratulations to Dr. Owen Jensen on the successful defense of his PhD thesis, "The role of MAIT cells in B cell help"! Many thanks to University of Utah Microbiology & Immunology committee members, and our collaborators at University of Utah Health icddr,b AubeLab MGH Division of Infectious Diseases.

This Wednesday, Daniel Labuz from the Daniel T Leung lab will defend his doctoral thesis! 🗓️Wednesday, Apr 5 at 1:00 pm 📌Gesteland-White Auditorium We'd like to wish him the best of luck!

Congratulations to Dr. Daniel Labuz, who successfully defended his PhD thesis, “MAIT cells in critical illness.” Many thanks to University of Utah Microbiology & Immunology committee members, and collaborators University of Utah Burn Surgery Fellowship Matthew Rondina AubeLab

Work by Melissa Pender S. Kyle Throneberry, MD University of Utah Department of Internal Medicine Intermountain Health describing potential for over-treatment of CDiff positivity on GI PCR panels, and need for consideration of pre-test probability (which was assoc w/toxin positivity). Utah IM CMRs

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Wrapping up a visit w/ collaborators in Geneva, andrew azman @andrewazman.bsky.social and others Epicentre_MSF. Discussing research on #cholera, persistent fever, viral hepatitis, and travel medicine.

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Today is the last day in the lab for Dr. Daniel Labuz and Dr. Owen Jensen Owen Jensen, who both graduated last week with a PhD from the Molecular Biology Program UtahBioscience University of Utah Microbiology & Immunology. We'll miss you both!

Lab lunch gathering to send off summer students Keri (Genomics Summer Research for Magnificents - UofU), Micaela (BRIDGE-UP), and Matthew (MSRP/GERM).

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University of Utah Global Health having a blast in the windy city ASTMH with Daniel T Leung @melissawatt_slc

Featuring our PhD student Paola Fonseca-Romero Paola Fonseca Romero

Molecular testing of children with gastroenteritis improved pathogen detection and decreased the likelihood of return visits to a healthcare provider. A reminder that the benefits of diagnostic advances may extend beyond finding "treatable" pathogens. doi.org/10.1093/cid/ci…

Out in Science Advances, we explored using population-level data to improve individual-level clinical prediction of #dengue testing. Led by RJ Williams Utah IM CMRs University of Utah Health. Collab w/AFRIMS, Nonthaburi MOPH, @hsalje @PDGCambridge, others. science.org/doi/full/10.11…

Was a pleasure for our group (Christy Clutter, PhD (Christy Harrison)) to be involved in this collaboration with @AndyHogan82

Out in PLOS Global Public Health - our group's review on inappropriate antibiotic use in South Asia, led by MD/PhD student Jenna Murray, w/@melissawatt_slc University of Utah Health in collaboration w/icddr,b investigators. #GlobalHealth

We recently celebrated Olivia Cheng's successful defense of her PhD thesis, on "The role of MAIT cell in colon cancer and the transcriptional regulation of its effector function." Congratulations, Dr. Cheng! University of Utah Microbiology & Immunology UtahBioscience University of Utah Department of Internal Medicine

Now out: Our work comparing model-estimated with directly-observed weather data for diarrhea etiology prediction, led by Ben Brintz. Collab w/Ben Zaitchik, Josh Colston, Sharia M Ahmed, Dennis Chao. doi.org/10.1017/S09502…

Congratulations to Daniel Leung, MD, MSc, on receiving the 2025 Outstanding Undergraduate Research Mentor Award from Undergrad Research. 🏆 Hear what this incredible recognition means to him. 👇 #meded #researchexcellence #mentorship #universityofutah Daniel T Leung