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What Is Herd Immunity And What Does It Mean For COVID-19?

INDIVIDUAL IMMUNITY Immunological memory is the ability of the immune system to quickly and specifically recognize a previously encountered antigen (i.e. a pathogen-derived epitope) and initiate a directed immune response. Generally, secondary, tertiary and subsequen...
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Meilinn Tram Named SGA Representative of the Year

Meilinn Tram, a second year D.D.S./Ph.D. student has been named Student Government Association (SGA) representative of the year. Tram has been part of SGA since starting the D.D.S./Ph.D. program in 2018. “I am humbled by being chosen for this award and being recognized for...
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Coping with the stress of social distancing as a graduate student

Being a fifth year Ph.D. student, I had extensive timeline and professional plans for the next few months that revolved around completing my Ph.D. and the future after that. When COVID-19 pandemic prompted, causing non COVID related labs to be shut down and all the events being...
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Faculty Spotlight: Diana M. Cavazos, Ph.D., MSN, RN

1) Please tell me about yourself. I was born in Laredo, Texas and I was raised going back and forth to the border town of Reynosa, Mexico where I completed my first nine years of school. This allowed me to grow up knowing the American culture and the Mexican culture at the same...
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In Press: Henry Miller Publishes First Author Paper in MDPI Cancers

Researchers in the Greehey Children’s Cancer Research Institute recently published  in MDPI Cancers as part of a special issue on Ewing sarcoma. Their study, titled “Reconstruction of Ewing Sarcoma Developmental Context from Mass-Scale Transcriptomics Reveals Characteristics of...
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Meet the Researcher: Victoria Bry & Her Passion For Medical Physics

From a young age, Victoria has always aspired to understand how the world works and she became passionate about science as she learned it provides the foundation for this knowledge. Bry is originally from San Diego and received her bachelor’s degree in physics at Colorado...
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Meet the Researcher: 9 Questions With Justin Moroney

1) Your name, program, mentor name. My name is Justin Moroney and I am a fourth-year Ph.D. candidate in Dr. Paolo Casali’s lab in Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Molecular Genetics. I am part of the Molecular Immunology & Microbiology discipline in the Integrated...
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Wellness Wednesday Submissions: Look At The New Hobbies Graduate Students Have Picked Up

This year for Graduate Student Appreciation Week, we hosted Wellness Wednesday where we asked students to share with us their hobbies that they’ve picked up during this period of self-isolation as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. Congrats to all our gift card winners from...
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