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2023

April

• Our discovery of the first IgA broadly neutralizing antibody against flaviviruses is live on bioRxiv.

2022

November

• The Goo Lab is selected to be among the inaugural class of grantees of the Hypothesis Fund.

October

• Catiana Cartwright joins the lab as Research Technician II

August

• Congrats to Jay Lubow for being selected as a Venture Analyst for the Washington Research Foundation. 

July

• Lucas Contreras is awarded the Postbaccalaureate Fellowship Award from the Fred Hutch ODEI to support his research in the lab.

June

• Goo and Bedford labs move into shared space in the Eastlake building.
• Lucas graduates with a Bachelor of Science in Microbiology from UW and joins the lab full-time as Research Tech I.
• Amelia Wilhelm (MSTP student, pictured below) begins rotation.

May

• Laura Belmont presents their research at the Hutch United symposium.

April

• Lisa Levoir departs the lab to take some time off before starting a PhD program in Biostatistics at Vanderbilt University in the fall.

March

• Jay receives a conference scholarship from the Student/Postdoc Advisory Committee (SPAC) to present a poster at the Antibody Biology and Engineering Gordon Research Conference.
• Laura Belmont is named co-chair of Hutch United.
• Caroline Kikawa (MSTP student) officially joins the lab (co-mentored by Jesse Bloom).
• Laura Belmont passes their qualifying exam to become a PhD candidate.

January

• Guoyue Xu (Pathobiology student) begins rotation.

2021

December

• Jackson Barr Stuart defends his Master of Science thesis.

September

• Leslie’s second child is born.

August

• Lucas Contreras joins the lab as part-time Lab Aide.

June

• The Goo and Matsen labs receive an award from the Translational Data Science Integrated Research Center to fund collaborative work using single-cell transcriptomics to investigate broadly neutralizing antibody responses against flaviviruses.
• Lucas Contreras and Caroline Kikawa join the lab for the summer as Fred Hutch Summer Undergraduate Research Program (SURP) participant and UW Medical Science Training Program (MSTP) rotation student, respectively.

May

• Laura is awarded the Viral Pathogenesis and Evolution T32 Training Grant.

March

• Jay's engagement celebration.

February

• Leslie is invited to participate in the Virology B study section as part of the NIH Early Career Reviewer Program.

January

• The lab participates in the Science Education Program Hutch @ Home virtual field trip series.

2020

December

• Leslie is an invited speaker and panelist at the Antibody Engineering & Therapeutics virtual conference. 

October

• First lab hike.

September

• Jackson Stuart is awarded the Diseases of Public Health Importance T32 training grant.
• First 10X Genomics run in the lab to profile dengue virus-specific antibody repertoires. 

July

• Jay Lubow joins the lab as a postdoctoral fellow after completing his PhD studies on innate immunity to HIV in the Collins lab.

June

• Laura Belmont (MCB) and Jackson Stuart (Pathobiology) join the lab as PhD students.
• Laura is named co-chair of Hutch United's Educational Outreach program.
• Laura, Jackson, and other Hutch United members participate in a "Journeys in Science" panel as part of the Hutch@Home virtual series hosted by Science Education Partnership.

May

• Lisa and Leslie publish a commentary on a study distinguishing the antibody response following primary and secondary infection with dengue virus.

April

• Elizabeth Bonner (left, MCB program) and Jackson Stuart (right, Pathobiology program) begin their spring quarter rotations in the lab. In compliance with physical distancing guidelines to mitigate the spread of SARS-CoV-2, Elizabeth and Jackson will be working remotely.

January

• Lisa Levoir is named co-chair for Educational Outreach program within Hutch United.
• First year MCB students, Laura Belmont (right) and Robin Kaai (left) begin their rotations in the lab.

• Goo Lab hosts a labwarming party

2019

December

• The first publication from the Goo Lab on the identification of new broadly neutralizing antibodies against dengue virus is published in eLife.

November

• Lisa performs the first official wet lab work in the Goo Lab.

October

• Lisa Levoir joins the Goo Lab as Research Technician II.
• The first publication from the Goo Lab is live on bioRxiv.

September

• Leslie joins the VIDD Faculty after leaving her position as Group Leader within the Infectious Disease Initiative at the Chan Zuckerberg Biohub in San Francisco, CA.