Oct 2025:
Jared was recently awarded two early-career research grants:
The V Foundation V Scholar Grant supports early-career, tenure-track faculty in cancer research, funding both fundamental laboratory and translational projects. His project, “Developing tools to unlock the role of the pulmonary microbiome in lung cancer” will develop novel sequencing methods to functionally characterize the lung tumor microbiome, aiming to define the specific microbial activities that promote malignancy.
The Edward Mallinckrodt, Jr. Foundation Award provides start-up support to advance research toward independent funding. To combat antibiotic resistance, his project, “A metabolomics pipeline to uncover new microbial targets in infection,” will expand the application of a reverse-translational metabolomics pipeline to Gram-positive infections, identifying microbial metabolic behaviors in patients that are essential for pathogenesis and represent new targets for intervention.
June 2025:
MaryGrace joins the lab as our first graduate student from the MCB program
Apr 2025
Elle, our new staff scientist, joins us from UNC. Welcome!
Mar 2025
Jared receives two PAM-IRC pilot grants for new sequencing approaches to explore the role of the pulmonary microbiome in lung cancer.
Our first postdoctoral fellow, Sahana, joins the lab from UCSD!. Welcome!
Oct 2024
Zoë joins the lab as our first full-time lab member!
Sept 2024
The Mayers Lab is open.