2024

October

• Sophie Kogut wins the Advisory Board Favorite Fast Pitch at the 2024 TDS-IRC retreat. Contratulations Sophie!

August

• The lab rode 25 miles in the 2024 Obliteride!

July

• 2nd Annual Lab retreat. This time hiking at Heather Lake. The chalk talk in the woods was fun!
• Megan Levy joined the lab as a MSTP rotation student. Welcome to the lab!

June

• Bryce Inman from University of Alaska Anchorage joins the lab as a SURP Fellow. Welcome to the lab!

May

• Anahi Sanchez joins the lab as a visiting scientist from LIIGH-UNAM. Welcome to the lab!

March

• Elizabeth J. Martinez joined the lab as a rotation student. Welcome to the lab!
• Sara Backer joined our group on March 4th, 2024. Welcome to the lab!

January

• Miguel Alejandro Navarro will be visiting our group from Mexico. Miguel is afiliated with UNAM's Bachelor in Genomics. Welcome to the lab!

2023

November

• Daniel was named one of this year's SN10: Scientists to Watch by Science News Magazine. Check the full SN10 list here.
• The lab turns 2 years! What a ride!

October

• Our paper exploring the multiple functions of Influenza A virus NS1 protein is out is now published in Frontiers in Microbiology.  

September

• Catherine Gohar joined our group as a Rotation Student. Welcome to the lab! 

August

• Sophie Lu left the lab for collegue. Best of luck in UC Berkeley!
• The lab was awarded our first NIH grant: New Innovators Award DP2 from NIAID. Really excited for the work ahead.

June

• Sophie Kogut joined our group as Graduate Student on June 20, 2023.  Sophie is affilated with the MCB program. Welcome to the lab! 
• Erin Barnett joined our group as Graduate Student on June 9, 2023.  Erin is affilated with the Pathobiology program. Welcome to the lab! 
• Our review on Paleovirology "A Glimpse into the Past: What Ancient Viral Genomes Reveal About Human History" is now published in Annual Reviews Virology
• Daniel was named a 2023 Searle Scholar by the Kinship Foundation.

April

• Mónica Padilla-Gálvez joined our group as a Laboratory Technician on April 12, 2023. Welcome to the lab! 
• Qing Yang was awarded a postdoctoral fellowship from the Diseases of Public Health Importance Training Program in the Department of Global Health (UW). Congratulations Qing! 

January

• Erin Barnett joined our group for a rotation on September 28th, 2022. Welcome to the lab! 

2022

November

• Our Lab turns 1!!! 

October

• Daniel was awarded the 2022 V Scholar Grant from the V Foundation for Cancer Research. Our research on the role of HERVs in Cancer is funded by the Stuart Scott Memorial Cancer Research Fund and the V Foundation wine celebration in honor of Leo Slattery (2022 volunteer grant honoree).

September

• Our lab received the Translational Data Science IRC New Collaboration Award together with Fred Hutch researchers Evan Newell and Roland Strong.
• Sophie Kogut joined our group for a rotation on September 28th, 2022. Welcome to the lab! 

August

• Qing Yang joined our group on August 1st, 2022. Welcome to the lab!
• Sophie Lu joined our group for an internship on August 29th, 2022. Welcome to the lab!

July

• Lots of love for our new lab whiteboard (>9K likes on Twitter). Art/design by Hector Blanco.

March

• Guoyue Xu joined our group for a rotation on March 29th, 2022. Welcome to the lab! 

January

• Ting Liu and Ellie McIntosh joined our group on January 4th 2022. Welcome to the lab!

2021

November

• The Blanco-Melo Lab officially opened its doors on November 1st 2021.

September

• We are Hiring! We are looking for talented and highly-motivated students, postdocs and research assistants. Join our team and be part of our history. Learn More.
• Our eLife paper was featured in ”This Week in Virology” TWiV 801.
• Our paper “Ancient viral genomes reveal introduction of HBV and B19V into Mexico during the transatlantic slave trade” is now published in eLife. 

April

• Daniel will be joining the Vaccine and Infectious Diseases Division at Fred Hutch next Fall as an Assistant Professor.