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We are interested in coral immunity, coral diseases and symbiosis
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Laura Mydlarz and Kevin Schug (faculty from Chemistry) win the Tech Titans Award University Award for their educational program that gets first year UTA students into original research.

The Mydlarz lab was at the 13th International Coral Reef Symposium in Honolulu, Hawaii in June. Laura, Lauren and Contessa each presented their work.

Members of the Mydlarz Lab attended the Maverick speaker series Jane Goodall lecture and undergraduate student Bren Ledbetter was selected to ask her a question.

PhD student Lauren Fuess won the Deans Award for best Graduate presentation at UT Arlington's Annual Celebration of Excellence by Students Symposium.

PhD student Contessa Ricci is awarded a National Science Foundation and Louis Stokes Bridge to Doctorate degree fellowship for 2 years!

PhD student Lauren Fuess was interviewed on  KERA (our local NPR station) talking about sea star wasting disease and immune genes. 

PhD student Lauren Fuess published a paper on the immune responses of the sea star infected with wasting disease. http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0133053

The Mydlarz lab will be at ECOFEST Arlington at the Levitt pavilion September 19th. Pass by to learn about coral reefs and other environmental projects going on at UTA.

Dr. Pinzon took a job at University of Texas, Southwestern Medical School working on Drosophila genetics and genomics. We will miss him here at UTA, but happy he is still in the area.

PhD Student Lauren Fuess is awarded the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship. She will receive a stipend for research for 3 years. Press release.

Dr. Pinzon published a paper on coral bleaching and the effects on immune genes in The Royal Society Open Access. See the paper here: http://rsos.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/2/4/140214.

Dr. Matthew Steffenson returned to Texas to get married!

Dr. Whitney Mann Graduated with her PhD! and is now working at Alcon Labs in Fort Worth, TX.

Joshuah Beach-letendre Graduated with a Masters of Science! He is working at EcoWater Systems Hydrodynamic Cavitation in San Antonio, TX.