Featuring: Vladimir Badovinac, PhD; Roger Berton, PhD; Matthew Gosse, MD; John Harty, PhD; Mohammad Heidarian, MSc; Shravan Kumar Kannan, MS; David K. Meyerholz, DVM, PhD; Andrean Simons-Burnett, PhD

Elizabeth Escue successfully defended her M.S. thesis on March 26, 2025, completing the Pathology M.S. program. Her thesis, titled The Ability of Memory CD8 T Cell Subsets to Numerically and Functionally Recover Following Whole-Body Irradiation is Influenced by Their History of Cognate Antigen Exposures, explores the impact of whole-body irradiation (WBI) on memory CD8 T cells with repeated cognate-antigen (cognate-Ag) exposures.

Featuring: Sahaana Arumugam, BS; Vladimir Badovinac, PhD; Lecia Epping, BS; Kathryn Eschbacher, MD; Cori Fain, PhD; Lisa Hancox, BA; John Harty, PhD; Mohammad Heidarian, MS; Jia Luo, PhD; Ashutosh Mangalam, PhD; Madison Mix, BA; Elizabeth Saery, BS; Cassie Sievers, BS; Stephanie van de Wall, PhD

Drs. Vladimir Badovinac and John Harty have been awarded R21 grant entitled ‘Evaluation of CC mice as an improved model for influenza immunity’ from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases...