2024-2025

Lab Members Alix, Xavier, Steve, and Jaby attended the Lakeside Conference on Protein Toxins and Effectors at The Abbey Resort, Wisconsin (Oct 6-9).

Collage of images from the lakeside conference that depicts all members who attended next to their posters or giving their oral presentation.

Congratulations to Dr. Bri Steiert on successfully defending her thesis: Elucidation of the Chlamydia trachomatis - Host Interactome.

Set of images depicting Bri before her thesis defense, her actively presenting her thesis, as well as at graduation with her mentor Mary Weber.

Our summer REU student, Larissa Cooper, presented her poster at the Summer Undergraduate Research Conference.

Depicts Larissa standing next to her poster at the 2024 undergraduate research conference here at the University of Iowa. She is flanked by Paige and Bri.

Lab members Mary, Paige, and Bri attended the American Society for Rickettsiology Conference in Colonial Williamsburg, VA (July 13-16, 2024).

Shows side by side images of Bri and Paige next to their 2024 ASR posters.

Congratulations to Paige for being awarded the 2024 National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship!

Image displaying announcement congratulating Paige on receiving NSF Graduate Research Fellowship.

New funding announcement!

Award announcement stating that Mary Weber has received a three year R61 grant from the NIH.

2023 - 2024

Two of our undergraduate students, Jawad and Kellyann, presented their posters at the Summer Undergraduate Research Conference.

Combined photo of Jawad and Kellyann presenting their posters.

 

Lab members Mary, Paige, and Bri attended the American Society for Rickettsiology in Snowbird, Utah (July 8-11, 2023).

Combined photos from ASR conference. Depicts group photo of Mary, Paige, and Bri, as well as Bri giving her talk.

 

Congratulations to Mary for her promotion and for receiving tenure!!

Shows image of the announcement that Mary and Noah were promoted and have received tenure.

 

Congratulations to Paige and other members of the lab for their publication in Infection and Immunology!

Shows the titles and authors of Paige's paper in I&I.

 

This shows a cropped image of figure 5 of Paige's I&I paper, with only the vector and CT392 being in view.

 

Read the published paper here!

 

Congratulations to Bri and other members of the lab for their publication in PNAS!

Shows title of Bri's paper for PNAS.
Depicts figure 4 from Bri's paper.

 

Read the published paper here!

 

Many of our lab members attended the biennial Chlamydia Basic Research Conference (CBRS) in Omaha, NE (March 19-23, 2023).

Shows front page of CBRS program and group photo from conference.

2022-2023

Many lab members attended the Midwest Microbial Pathogenesis Conference and Lakeside Toxins and Effectors Conference in Wisconsin.

Group folder of the many members of the lab that attended the ASR conference.

 

Lab members Bri and Mary attended the Gordon Research Conference on Microbial Toxins and Pathogenicity in Southbridge, Massachusetts.

Photos from Gordon Conferences. Includes photo of Mary and Bri, as well as Bri next to her poster.

2021-2022

Our outstanding undergraduate, Caro, was just appointed to the Iowa Biosciences Academy. Way to go Caro!!!

Depiction of our undergraduate student, Caro Icardi, who was accepted into the Iowa Biosciences Academy.

 

Super excited to share our latest funding news.

Grant award for Mary Weber for the pursuit of characterizing chlamydial secreted effectors.

2020-2021

Congratulations to Alix, Robert, and Shelby on their new paper in PLOS Pathogens!

Role of conventional secreted effectors in host cell invasion

 Check out the manuscript!

 

New Funding Announcement!

R01 grant award for Mary Weber for pursuit of characterization of Chlamydia inclusion membrane proteins.

 

Big congratulations to our amazing undergraduate student Shelby Andersen!!! Shelby is the winner of this year's Stinski fellowship. 

Shelby

Shelby will be working on identifying and characterizing Chlamydia trachomatis type III secreted effector proteins. Read more about Shelby and the Stinkski Fellowship.