News & Announcements

Fall celebration-Lab hike

October 26th 2025. The lab went to Blue Ridge Tunnel for a spooky fall hike — flashlights required!

Followed by pizza and wine at Hazy Mountain Vineyards. We were joined by BIMS rotation student, Alex, and future postdoc, Tania.

Lab anniversary

September 10th 2025. Bodos and cake to celebrate the lab’s one year anniversary. This also marks Sarah’s 10 year anniversary of studying herpesviruses!

New achievement unlocked - herpesvirus custom frosting.

Celebrating the start of a new academic year

July 3rd 2025. Lab lunch (beignets and plantains!) to celebrate two new members. Anne-Fleur is BIMS student rotating for the summer. Agata is joining us from Poland via UVA’s Visiting Student Research Program.

Meghan receives Undergraduate Summer Research Award

April 4th 2025. Meghan is awarded an Undergraduate Summer Research Award from the UVA Department of Chemistry to support her work in the lab this upcoming summer.

she didn’t want me to embarrass her with a photo, so the gif will have to do

Katie’s White Coat Ceremony

April 1st 2025. The School of Medicine celebrates the transition of first year BIMS-students as they enter their permanent research labs.

Read more at UVA Medicine in Motion News

Celebrating the end of rotation season

February 7th 2025. Celebrating the end of a very successful rotation for Katie. Lab pastries & our first photo. Spoiler alert — Katie’s coming back!

Lab holiday party

December 11th 2024. First lab holiday party, celebrated jointly with the Spencer, Tak & Wang labs!