Chioma had a successful PhD defense this week titled: Synthesis and Transport of Bacterial Sphingolipids!!!
What’s New?
Sphingolipid transport paper on bioRxiv
Chioma’s new paper on sphingolipid transport is posted on bioRxiv. This is a collaboration with Georgia Isom (Oxford) that shows that sphingolipid and LPS transport share common features and proteins. Check it out at: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.04.12.717747v1
Wellcome Discovery Award!!
Our lab is part of a new 8-year Wellcome Discovery Award with collaborators Dom Campopiano, Jon Marles-Wright, Georgia Isom, and James Connolly. This grant will explore bacterial spingolipid biochemistry, transport, regulation, and importance in host-microbe physiology. I’m very much looking forward to this exciting work with a fantastic group of researchers!!
New paper with the Yakoby and Piccoli labs!
A new paper on EGFR signaling in Drosophila has been published at PLoS Computational Biology. This was a collaboration with the Yakoby and Piccoli labs and included image analysis tools developed in our Matlab Image Analysis Workshop! Check the paper out at: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1013802
Flynn and Joctan win a best poster award!
Congratulations to Flynn and Joctan for winning a best poster award at the Fall 2025 RU-Camden Virtual Biology Day!
Chioma won a TSS Best Poster Award
Congratulations to Chioma on winning a Best Poster Award at the Fall 2025 Theobald Smith Society meeting!