Congratulations to two talented undergrad students in the Pantophlet Lab: Yiqiu Yang and Diana Yang! Both received news recently of their successful Undergraduate Student Research Award (USRA) applications to the Faculty of Health Sciences (FHS). The awards will support them financially as they contribute to ongoing research projects in the lab this Fall (2020). Yiqiu, who has been a member of the lab since 2019, will continue to work on neutralizing antibodies to the high-mannose patch on HIV gp120. Diana, a new recruit to the lab, will contribute to research on the selective recognition of flu hemagglutinin by germline precursors of broadly neutralizing antibodies.

Our latest research contribution to identifying potential hurdles to the elicitation of glycan-specific HIV-neutralizing antibodies has just been published with @SpringerNature in @Scientific Reports! Read here: [article]

Congratulations to Quiana Ang! Quiana has been awarded her second Undergraduate Student Research Award (USRA), which will enable her to continue her undergraduate research in the Pantophlet Lab over the summer, and has been accepted as a Master’s student in the Faculty of Health Sciences for Fall 2020!

The Pantophlet Lab is seeking an experienced Research Assistant to support ongoing NIH- and CIHR-funded research related to HIV and flu vaccine development. Candidates will be interviewed on a rolling basis until the position is filled.

For more information, visit our Opportunities page.

Quratulain, an undergrad research intern in the Pantophlet Lab, talks to SFU-SURJ (Science Undergraduate Research Journal) in a short blog post about her work in the lab these past few months. In addition, she discusses how she got into research and her career goals and aspirations.

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