Maria gave a lightning talk and poster presentation at the Midwest Neglected Infectious Diseases (MNID) meeting in Ann Arbor, MI. Great job, Maria!

sumiti2024-08-19T16:17:24-05:00August 19th, 2024|

MNID meeting, Ann Arbor MI, August 16-17, 2024

CDPK5 paper: Research Spotlight in Trends Parasitol

sumiti2024-07-17T17:14:53-05:00July 17th, 2024|

Nava MG, Szewczyk J, Arrington JV, Alam T, Vinayak S. The Cryptosporidium signaling kinase CDPK5 controls male [...]

Organized the Midwest Neglected Infectious Diseases Meeting (MNID-2023) at UIUC. Fantastic talks and interactions!

sumiti2023-08-16T13:27:57-05:00August 16th, 2023|

https://vetmed.illinois.edu/about-the-college/pathobiology/mnid-midwest-neglected-infectious-diseases/

Maria features in the Graduate Appreciation Week!

sumiti2021-11-23T17:22:39-06:00November 23rd, 2021|

https://vetmed.illinois.edu/2021/10/27/grad-week-appreciation-maria-nava/

Maria received a travel award to present her research at the Midwest Microbial Pathogenesis Conference. Congratulations!

sumiti2021-09-10T17:17:22-05:00September 10th, 2021|

https://emails.illinois.edu/newsletter/680571219.html

Derek received an honorable mention award for his presentation at the annual pathobiology graduate student EXPO. Congratulations!

sumiti2021-11-22T22:33:50-06:00September 10th, 2021|

https://emails.illinois.edu/newsletter/680571219.html  

February 1, 2021: Big day for the lab. Our NIH R01 grant is funded!

sumiti2021-02-01T20:13:01-06:00February 1st, 2021|

October 1, 2020: In the news: Repurposed anti-malarial compounds kill diarrheal parasite.

sumiti2020-10-04T23:05:10-05:00October 4th, 2020|

https://news.illinois.edu/view/6367/1468157016 https://vetmed.illinois.edu/research-shows-malarial-drug-may-combat-cryptosporidium/

September 30, 2020: Our paper describing a new class of compounds that kill Cryptosporidium and genetic validation of target is out in Science Translational Medicine.

sumiti2020-10-04T22:51:42-05:00October 4th, 2020|

https://stm.sciencemag.org/content/12/563/eaba8412

September 2, 2020: Joanna joins the lab as a visiting research scholar. Welcome back Joanna!

sumiti2020-09-04T20:12:07-05:00September 4th, 2020|

August 25, 2020: Our paper on the conditional system to study essntial gene function in Cryptosporidium parvum was published in mBio. Congratulations to the lab team!

sumiti2020-09-04T20:10:39-05:00September 4th, 2020|

https://mbio.asm.org/content/11/4/e01231-20

Aug 21, 2020: Maria received the 2nd place Voss competition award at the annual pathobiology graduate student EXPO. Congratulations!

sumiti2020-09-04T20:05:53-05:00September 4th, 2020|

It has been a busy summer but lots of fun and cool data with new folks in the lab! A big welcome to Hadi, Derek and Maria

sumiti2019-08-30T20:35:21-05:00August 30th, 2019|

Sumiti has been selected as the University nominee for Edward Mallinckrodt Jr. Foundation grant

sumiti2019-07-15T16:25:07-05:00July 15th, 2019|

http://www.emallinckrodtfoundation.org/Home_Page.html  

Maria joins the lab as a graduate student. Welcome!

sumiti2019-06-21T22:09:27-05:00June 21st, 2019|

Sumiti presented a poster at the Epigenetics and Genome Editing Conference, Chicago IL (June 12, 2019)

sumiti2019-06-21T21:52:47-05:00June 21st, 2019|

Mangesh joins the jab as a postdoctoral fellow. Welcome!

sumiti2019-02-19T19:11:21-06:00February 19th, 2019|

Check out this news story about our recent grant

sumiti2019-02-15T18:15:24-06:00February 15th, 2019|

https://vetmed.illinois.edu/vinayak-cryptosporidium-nih-grant/

We received our first NIH grant! Thanks everyone for all your support and hard work.

sumiti2019-02-15T17:51:27-06:00February 15th, 2019|

Sumiti was invited to give a talk at the Washington University School of Medicine (Nov 7th, 2018).

sumiti2018-11-13T18:51:35-06:00November 13th, 2018|

Josh Lain joins the lab. Welcome!

sumiti2018-10-03T20:09:50-05:00October 3rd, 2018|

Its our lab one year anniversary today! Thank you team for your hard work. Its been a fabulous year!

sumiti2018-08-16T19:06:00-05:00August 16th, 2018|

Brina presented her work at the CVM Summer Research Training Program’s poster session. Awesome job, Brina!

sumiti2018-08-01T17:31:35-05:00August 1st, 2018|

Sumiti was invited to give a talk at the Biology of Intracellular Pathogens (BiP) retreat (June 26-27th) at the Indiana University School of Medicine.

sumiti2018-07-02T16:20:00-05:00July 2nd, 2018|

Sumit joins the lab as a postdoctoral fellow. Welcome!

sumiti2018-06-06T14:57:15-05:00June 6th, 2018|

Rachel joins the lab, Welcome!

sumiti2018-06-06T14:56:34-05:00June 6th, 2018|

Brina, a T35 Summer Research Trainee joins the lab. Welcome!

sumiti2018-06-06T22:42:36-05:00June 6th, 2018|

Exciting Time! We have three new members in the lab. Crypto rocks!

sumiti2018-06-06T14:52:32-05:00June 6th, 2018|

Two new members join the lab

sumiti2018-04-16T21:16:34-05:00March 22nd, 2018|

Lincoln and Savannah join the lab as undergraduate researchers. Welcome!

Sumiti will be giving a seminar

noliver2018-03-22T20:25:53-05:00September 13th, 2017|

Sumiti will be giving a seminar to the Biology of Intracellular Pathogens (BIP) group at Indiana University School [...]

6th Annual Midwest Neglected Infectious Diseases

noliver2017-09-13T20:54:18-05:00August 27th, 2017|

Sumiti was invited to give a talk at the 6th Annual Midwest Neglected Infectious Diseases (MNID) Meeting at University of [...]

Welcome Soon!

noliver2017-09-13T20:52:28-05:00August 16th, 2017|

Soon Oh joins the lab

New!

noliver2017-09-13T20:51:14-05:00August 16th, 2017|

The Vinayak lab officially opens!