Lab News
2022
October
Congratulations to Han for receiving the IDTG!
Congratulations to Dr. Hannah Lewis for being the first student from the Avgousti Lab to successfully defend her PhD Thesis!
September
Congratulations to Laurel for passing her General Exam!
Congratulations to Han for receiving honorable mention for their poster at the Basic Sciences retreat
August
Lab goes on annual summer fun outing for an afternoon of SUPing!
June
Pre-print of HSV-1 exploits host heterochromatin for egress is available.
Avgousti Lab feature, What viruses can teach us about ourselves, is published in FHCC news.
Robin moves on to Nikon. Contratulations Robin !
May
Congratulations to Robin on earning his Master's degreee from UW MCB Program!
March
Congratulations to Edward & Robin for passing their General Exam!
2021
December
Secret Santa continues, cautiously in person!
November
Kelsey Lynch moves on to Umoja Biopharma. Congrats to Kelsey!
October
The lab celebrates it's first publication in Current Biology.
September
The lab welcomes the newest and youngest member - Nephele!
July
The lab welcomes Dr. Hannah Arbach to the lab as a postdoctoral research fellow.
Melanie Dillon moves on to begin her PhD program at Vanderbilt University, we will miss her energy and positive attitude.
June
The lab welcomes Laurel Kelnhofer-Millevolte as a graduate student in the UW MCB/MSTP program.
The lab welcomes Mia Brinkley as a research technician.
May
Edward is awarded the Viral Pathogenesis and Evolution Training Grant.
March
Robin is awarded the NSF GRFP! Congratulations Robin!
Edward passes his topics exam! Well done Edward!
February
Hannah Arbach from the Wills lab at UW will be joining the lab as a postdoc this summer!
January
Brendan McShane from MCB rotates for the fall quarter, welcome Brendan!
2020
December
The holiday Secret Santa goes virtual… ho ho ho!
October
Group lab costume: pirates! Thanks to Luna for taking our picture down by the water.
A valiant effort at pumpkin carving by Robin this year - beautiful pumpkin!
September
The lab attends the virtual Cold Spring Harbor meeting on Chromatin and Epigenetics, fun times!
August
Best western compettion reinstated and our first winner: Hannah! For a beautiful blot and experimental result.
July
Kudos to the lab for keeping up good spirits with virtual lab meetings, happy hours and socially distant lunches!
June
Graduate students Robain Kaii, UW MCB & Edward Arnold, UW Microbiology, join the lab.
March
The youngest member of the Avgousti lab arrives on the scene - Leandros! (aka Leo).
January
Welcome to rotation students Edward Arnold (Micro) and Carlos Segura (MCB)!
2019
November
Hannah passed her qualifying exam!
October
Pumkpin carving contest 2019!
September
Poster prizes still going for September - Hannah also won 1st place at the HB Retreat, getting the prestigious Galloway Cup!! The prize is we all get to go mini golfing, woohoo!
Welcome to rotation student Robin Kaai from MCB, and congratulations to Hannah on her poster prize at the Microbiology Retreat at Sleeping Lady!
Welcome to new technician Melanie Dillon!
Dr. Avgousti is awarded a Maximizing Investigators' Research Award for Early Stage Investigators (MIRA R35) by the National Institute of General Medical Sciences, hooray for the first NIH grant to the lab!
August
Lab summer party on Lake Union! And Monji joins the lab as a technician, welcome Monji!
June
Welcome to summer intern Kimia Preston and SURP student David Galambos!
May
Hannah receives HB Travel Award to attend the 2019 International Herpesvirus Workshiop - well done Hannah!
Congrats to Hannah for being appointed to the Viral Pathogenesis and Evolution Training Grant!
April
More exciting news in April with a poster prize to Kelsey at the PAM-IRC 2019 Retreat! Way to go Kelsey!
Congrats to Hannah for Honorable Mention on her NSF Proposal!
2018
December
Dec 11th is our one year lab anniversary! Happy hour at Cask and Trotter
November
Mini Golf with the Hatch lab
October
Avgousti Lab Halloween costumes – Pacman and the Ghosts (and Cherry, undergrad Monji isn’t always around, but when she is, she is the bomb!)
September
Postdoc Kelsey Lynch appointed to Chromosome, Metabolism and Cancer Training grant, well done Kelsey!
August
Grad student Hannah Lewis joins the lab.
Postdoc Kelsey Lynch receives Travel Award to attend NIH Chromatin control of Virus Infection Workshop!
July
Technician Nick Donadio joins the lab.
June
Postdoc Kelsey Lynch joins the lab.
Emily Hsieh rotates in the lab.
March
Hannah Lewis and Monet Jimenez rotate in the lab.
2017
December
Avgousti lab opens its doors!
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