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The Ott Lab shares research at the 2019 Gladstone Scientific Retreat

This year at Gladstone’s Scientific Retreat, several members of the Ott Lab presented their research. Postdoctoral scholar Nathan Meyers gave a talk entitled “HCV Infects and Perturbs Liver Stem Cells”, which received great interest from Gladstone colleagues. Lab members Jennifer Hayashi, Camille Simoneau, Parinaz Fozouni, Albert Vallejo-Gracia, Kristoffer Leon, and Sarah McMahon presented posters, with Parinaz winning a ‘Best Poster’ award.

Congrats, Parinaz, and great job to everyone who presented!

Ott Lab Alumni Achieves Graduate School Success

Former Ott Lab intern Musette Caldera has been accepted to San Francisco State’s Masters Program in Cell and Molecular Biology. Musette was also awarded the NIH Bridges to PhD Fellowship. She will begin her studies this coming Fall 2019.

Congrats, Musette!

The Ott Lab gets exciting grant news

The Ott Lab, in collaboration with Drs Niren Murthy, and Nir Yusef at UC Berkeley as well as Dr. Steven Deeks at UCSF, was awarded an R61 grant by the National Institute of Health’s National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA). This grant will enable the Ott Lab to study primary latently infected T cells isolated from aviremic HIV-infected drug users using single-cell RNA-Seq and CRISPR technology.

In more good news, the Ott Lab’s recent R01 renewal ranked in the 3rd percentile during review at NIAID.

Dr. Melanie Ott organizes successful Keystone Symposia

Dr. Ott was on the scientific organizing committee for the April 24-29, 2019 Keystone Symposia, Functional Cures and the Eradication of HIV. The meeting took place in Whistler, British Columbia, and was very well attended.

Two new members join the Ott Lab

The Ott Lab started off 2019 by adding two new postdoctoral scholars, Gili Aviv and Danielle Lyons. We are very excited to have these two join our team! Welcome, Gili and Danielle!

To learn more about our lab members, scroll over the ‘People’ button, and select ‘Lab Members’.

Melanie Ott receives Chan Zuckerberg Award

Dr. Melanie Ott was awarded a Chan Zuckerberg Intercampus Research Award for her project “Defining host responses of virus- infected and uninfected neighbor cells”. This funding from the CZ Biohub will foster further scientific research collaboration between Stanford, the University of California at Berkeley, and the University of California at San Francisco. More information about the award can be found here.

Congratulations, Dr. Ott!

Krystal Fontaine and Kristoffer Leon publish Zika paper

Krystal and Kris’ paper “The cellular NMD pathway restricts Zika virus infection and is targeted by the viral capsid protein” has been accepted for publishing by mBio! Co-authors include Mir Khalid, Sakshi Tomar, David Jimenez-Morales, Mariah Dunlap, Julia A Kaye, Priya S Shah, Steve Finkbeiner, Nevan J. Krogan, and Melanie Ott.

Congrats, Krystal and Kris!