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Congratulations, Dr. Ohman!
Mike's thesis defense!

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!

Congratulations Dr. Walter!
Ryan's Thesis Defense

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!

Wisc-e-sota 2023!
Happy 20th Birthday to the Kalejta Lab!
Wisc-e-sota 2022
Jared's thesis defense
Congratulations Dr. Erickson!
ASV 2022
Congrats to Thomas on passing his prelim!
Esther passed her prelim! Congratulations!

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.

Rob visiting his old bench at Princeton
Congratulations Sydney and the UW Women's Volleyball team on their National Championship!
Happy Thanksgiving - 2021
Cheering on Sydney and the UW Women's Volleyball Team - 2021
Bactoberfest 2021 with the Neumann Lab
Congratulations Mike on a successful prelim defense!

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

Congratulations Sydney!
Congratulations Ryan on passing your prelim!
Post vaccination celebration at the Terrace - 2021
Saying goodbye to lab tech extraordinaire Clay as he heads off to the Langolis Lab at the University of Minnesota.

September 2020 – Shelby’s IE19 genome maintenance paper is out in mBio!

March 2020 – Rob and Emily’s review on pp71 functions is published!

Wisc-e-sota 2019
Congratulations Dr. Jeong-Hee Lee!
IHW 2019 in Knoxville
Emily filling in for Rob and presenting Shelby's data on IE19 and genome maintenance at IHW 2019
Rob at the DNA Tumor Virus Meeting 2019
Shelby's last day in the lab - she's off to teach high school science in Kentucky!
Shelby's thesis defense party
Congratulations Dr. Lyon!

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!

Jeong-Hee got the page proofs for her first first-author manuscript coming soon!
Shelby submits her dissertation (look at all those plaque assays!)
Congratulations Dr. Gelbmann!
2018 - Happy Holidays from the Kalejta Lab!
2017 - Happy Holidays from the Kalejta Lab
Wisc-e-Sota 2017
2017 - Satoko's last day
So long Satoko! Best of luck with your new job in Tokoyo!

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.

Congratulations Dr. Angie Umana!
Jared passed his prelim! Congratulations!

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!

ASV 2017
Mitchell presenting his research at the Undergraduate Research Symposium
2016 - Rob visiting the Wuhan Institute of Virology

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.

Loving our new cell culture incubators!
Rob explaining Satoko's data at the Rb Meeting
2016 - Satoko & Rob heading to the Rb Meeting
Satoko on Rob heading to the Rb Meeting
2015 - Celebrating at Shelby's wedding. Congratulations Shelby and Andy!
2014 - Celebrating Rob's promotion to Full Professor!
2012 - IHW in Calgary