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Esther presenting her research at ASV 2026

Ethan presenting his research at the Palmenberg Symposium — Esther presenting her research at ASV 2026

August 2025 – Kylee heads off to start her faculty position and the Morrison Lab at Western Michigan University! Best of luck, Kylee!
September 2024 – Mike’s paper showing the HCMV Pentamer complex inhibits viral IE gene expression is published in PNAS! Congrats Mike and co-authors Emily and Chris!
September 2024 – Ryan’s paper demonstrating that ATRX plays both pro- and anti-viral roles during productive HCMV infection is published in PLoS Pathogens! Congratulations Ryan!
July 2024 – Congratulations to Esther on her F31 award for her work on the control of pp71 localization!
May 2024 – Emily’s paper showing foreign DNA signaling promotes viral IE gene expression is published in Viruses!
May 2024 – Minor and Kristen’s paper on the regions of IE19 required for viral genome tethering during mitosis is published in mBio!
April 2024 – Congratulations to Kylee on her F32 award for her work on how SLBP affects viral infectivity!
April 2024 – Rob is appointed as a Section Editor for DNA viruses at PLoS Pathogens!
September 2023 – Happy 20th Birthday to the Kalejta Lab!

Cleaning up a flooded lab — The Great Lab Flood of 2023

Group of virologists dressed as fruit ninja — The Great Lab Flood of 2023

March 2023 – Emily’s paper mapping MIEP sites that mediate VPA-responsiveness is out in JVI with contributions from Ryan Walter and Ryan Saffert!
November 2022 – Jared’s paper on ATM function during AcMNPV infection is out in JVI!
November 2022 – Satoko and Angie’s paper on UL97 regulation by 14-3-3 proteins is published in J Biol Chem!
August 2022 – Congratulations to Ryan on being awarded a T32 Cancer Biology Fellowship!
April 2022 – Emily and Kylee’s paper on replication-independent histone synthesis and SLBP function during HCMV infection is out in PNAS! With contributions from Padhma, Jeong-Hee, and Mark in collaboration with the Terhune and Ahlquist labs.
December 2021 – Emily’s paper on UL138 inhibition of foreign DNA sensing pathways is out in mBio. Congrats to Emily and co-author Clay!
August 2021 – Rob’s virology laboratory guidelines are published in JVI
May 2021 – Rob and Ann Palmenberg publish an updated analysis of gender parity trends at virology conferences in JVI

Group dressed up as Lord of the Rings for Bactoberfest — Bactoberfest 2021 with the Neumann Lab

Mike celebrating passing his prelim — Bactoberfest 2021 with the Neumann Lab

September 2020 – Shelby’s IE19 genome maintenance paper is out in mBio!
March 2020 – Rob and Emily’s review on pp71 functions is published!
October 2019 – Jeong-Hee and Joe’s work on viral entry into cell types supporting latency is out now in JVI!
September 2019 – Chris’ paper on the role of UL138 golgi sorting motifs during latency is published in Virus Research
July 2019 – Jeong-Hee’s paper on entry mechanisms and pp71 localization in CD34+ HPCs is out in JVI!
May 2019 – Chris’ paper on MRP1 downregulation by UL138 is published in JVI!

Rob and Shelby celebrating her thesis defense — Shelby’s thesis defense party

Shelby celebrating her thesis defense — Shelby’s thesis defense party

August 2018 – Chao’s paper on HCMV infection in primary epithelial cells is published in JVI!
July 2018 – Emily and Rob are co-authors on a new study from the Kenney Lab on EBV Z promoter variants out now in PLoS Pathogens.
April 2018 – Shelby and Rob’s preview for Procter et al., 2018 is published in Developmental Cell
December 2017 – Angie’s AS kinase paper is published in ACS Chemical Biology!
December 2017 – Satoko’s paper on phosphorylation of Rb pathway transcriptional regulators by UL97 is published in Virology!
July 2017 – Rob and Ann Palmenberg publish their analysis of gender parity trends at virology conferences in JVI.
May 2017 – Che’s paper on HCMV infected glioblastoma cells is out in mSphere!
April 2017 – Satoko’s paper on UL97 phosphorylation of p130 and p107 is out in JBC! Congrats to Satoko and co-authors Angie and Halena!

Lab group at the terrace — Shelby’s thesis defense party

Mitchell presenting his research poster — Shelby’s thesis defense party

November 2016 – Emily’s paper on histone variant deposition on HCMV genomes is out in JVI! It was also selected by the Editors as a Spotlight!
November 2016 – Che and Rob are co-authors on a new study on TMEM135 now out in eLife
September 2016 – Our paper on long and short isoforms of UL138 and their functions during latency is out now in JVI. Congratulations SongHee, Emily, Jeong-Hee, and Chris!
September 2016 – Chad’s paper on the effects of dNTP sources on viral DNA replication is out in JVI
September 2016 – Rob’s Research Matters feature on our lab’s history and research is out now in PLoS Pathogens.