UPTON LAB
LAB NEWS
NEW STUDENTS!
August 2019
Rachel Haich, Oliva Brahms, and Shawn Yates join the Upton Lab.
DR. KATIE RAGAN SUCCESSFULLY DEFENDS HER THESIS AND RECEIVES HER PH.D.
December 2018
Congratulations to Dr. Ragan!
UPTON LAB MOVES TO AUBURN
August 2018
WDE
SANDHYA'S PAPER IS PUBLISHED INÂ VIROLOGY
September 2018
Sandhya's first author paper, Murine cytomegalovirus M72 promotes acute virus replication in vivo and is a substrate of the TRiC/CCT complex, is published in Virology--check it out!
DR. SANDHYA GOPAL SUCCESSFULLY DEFENDED HER DISSERTATION AND RECEIVES HER PH.D.
August 10, 2018
Congrats to Dr. Gopal!!
KATIE PRESENTS A POSTER AT TOLL2018
June 6-9 2018
Katie and Jason attended Toll2018 in Porto, Portugal where Katie had the opportunity to present a poster
SANDHYA GIVES TALK AT ASV
June 27, 2017
Sandhya received the opportunity to present a talk called "Characterization of conserved Murine Cytomegalovirus gene M72 in viral pathogenesis" at the American Society for Virology meeting in Madison, Wisoconsin and was granted a travel award by the conference.
PRIYA AND KATIE'S PAPERÂ IS PUBLISHED IN EMBO REPORTS
June 12, 2017
Our paper, Murine cytomegalovirus IE3-dependent transcription is required for DAI/ZBP1-mediated necroptosis, was released on the Embo Reports website!  Check it out!
NEURONS LOOSEN THE GRIP OF DEATH NATURE MICROBIOLOGY NEWS AND VIEWS PREVIEW IS PUBLISHED
May 22, 2017
We were invited to write a News and Views preview for Nature Microbiology on Dr. Andrew Obherst's recent Cell paper, RIPK3 Restricts Viral Pathogenesis via Cell Death-Independent Neuroinflammation, which revealed an exciting new cell death independent role for RIPK3 in viral infection.
May 2017
Dr. Upton and our collaborator Dr. Balachandran wrote an up to date review on RIPK3-dependent cell death in response to viral infections--check it out for a great primer on the subject!
DR. ADAM HILTERBRAND SUCCESSFULLY DEFENDS HIS DISSERTATION AND RECEIVES HIS PH.D.
April 4, 2017
Congrats to Adam!!
March 8, 2017
Dr. Upton and our long time collaborator Dr. William Kaiser were invited to write a commentary for Cell Host and Microbe regarding MCMV-induced necroptosis.
ADAM'S PAPER IS PUBLISHED IN MBIO
January 17, 2017