March 2024
Maham Saeed passes her qualifying exam with flying colors! We are so proud of her!
Magda Chlebicz joins the Reese lab for her Ph.D thesis! Lucky us!
October 2023
Christina’s tour de force paper is published in PLOS Pathogen! Check it out!
https://journals.plos.org/plospathogens/article?id=10.1371/journal.ppat.1011691
September 2023
We say goodbye to Christina 😢, and wish her the best in her new postdoctoral position at BioStone in Dallas. She will be missed!
We welcome two new Research Scientists to the lab! Welcome Kazi and Anuja!
March 2023
Guoxun’s paper comes out online in Nature! The UTSW newsroom came out to take some pictures and Guoxun and I had a very serious talk about a plaque assay plate 😂.
Thanks to Dustin Hancks for a wonderful collaboration!
January 2023
Phil and Lili’s paper is published in Microbiology Spectrum!
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1128/spectrum.02337-22
November 2022
Christina defended her dissertation on Nov. 10, 2022. The Reese lab has its first Ph.D. graduate!
September 2022
Lab lunch to bid Amritha farewell. We will miss her!
June 2022
The Reese lab takes an outing to White Rock Lake. Thanks, Phil and Madison for coming up with the scavenger hunt!
2022
The Reese welcomes more members: Mo Goodarzi, Adriano Silva, and Shajedul Haque!
April 2021
We had a lab outing to Arbor Hills to celebrate vaccination!
March 2021
Jaime “J” Coronado has decided to do his PhD work in the Reese lab! Welcome to the lab!
February 2021
The Reese lab is growing! We’ve welcomed Josephine Thinwa, Madison Roberts and Zhongju Zou from Beth Levine’s legacy lab. As part of this expansion, Dr. Reese has become the PI of one of the projects for the CETR grant “Autophagy Modulators as Novel Broad-Spectrum Anti-Infective Agents”. We are joining an excellent group of scientists, including Skip Virgin, Ramnik Xavier, Michael Shiloh, Christina Stallings, Seungmin ‘Sam’ Hwang, and Ben Cravatt to identify novel proteins and chemical compounds that induce autophagy.
October 2020
We had to say goodbye to Lili last week. She is moving to Vanderbilt to start a Medical Microbiology fellowship. We will miss her skilled hands, strong intellect and warm personality.
October 2020
One positive of the pandemic is I’ve had to flex my #scicomm skills! As a member of the Health Committee at my child’s school I periodically write communications to the parents about health measures important during the pandemic. Here’s my article on why vaccination against influenza is so important right now.
The Reese lab welcomed 3 new lab members this summer! Phillip Dryden, Amritha Achuthkumar, and Tania Majumdar are all braving the pandemic lab!
July 2020
June/July 2020
A socially distanced farewell to Alex! She will be missed!! She’s off to bigger and better things and will join UTSW for graduate school.
March 2020
We are a virtual lab for now.
We are now on Twitter! Follow us @TiffanyReeseLab!
February 2020
The Reese Lab was awarded a CPRIT grant! https://www.cprit.state.tx.us/news-events/articles/cancer-prevention-research-institute-of-texas-awards-78-million-in-new-grants/
April 2019
We commemorated our 4 year anniversary with a “State of the Lab” address. Although I never thought being a PI would be easy, I don’t think I realized when I started how hard it would be at times. Despite the roller coaster, I’m still happy to be doing this job!
July 2018
We received our first R01 from NIAID!!!
June 2018
Tiffany is named a 2018 Pew Scholar in the Biomedical Sciences! https://www.utsouthwestern.edu/newsroom/articles/year-2018/pew-scholar.html
http://www.pewtrusts.org/en/projects/pew-biomedical-scholars
May 2018
Lili gives a talk at the 2018 DFW Immunology Symposium at the Kimball Art Museum in Fort Worth.
April 2018
Tiffany quoted in the News Feature in Nature about clean mice and research. https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-03916-9
December 2017
Christina passes her qualifying exam!
August 2017
Tyron leaves the Reese lab to start graduate school at UTSW. We will miss him!
July 2017
The Reese lab is awarded an American Heart Association Scientist Development Grant!
March 2017
Lili and Tiffany publish a review in Trends in Immunology.
Making Mouse Models That Reflect Human Immune Responses. Tao L, Reese TA. Trends Immunol. 2017 Mar;38(3):181-193. doi: 10.1016/j.it.2016.12.007. Epub 2017 Feb 1.