Haley Aponte has recently joined the lab as a new Master’s student. She successfully earned her B.S. in Biology from UMass Amherst in May of this year. As an undergraduate, she gained valuable research experience during a summer internship at the University of Tennessee, Oak Ridge Innovation Institute. Haley will be taking over Casey’s drug delivery project. Please join us in extending a warm welcome to Haley!

Kashif Chowdhury, a new Microbiology PhD student, joins the lab for the fall semester rotation. Welcome!

Hiro’s work, entitled “A cell wall synthase accelerates plasma membrane partitioning in mycobacteria”, was published in eLife. In this collaborative work, Hiro showed that PonA2 mediates membrane partitioning during recovery from membrane fluidizing stress. It is a pioneering work to reveal the mechanism of membrane compartmentalization in mycobacteria. Congratulations!!