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Congratulations all around the Bollyky lab this summer! Liz Burgener received a Child Health Research Institute (CHRI) Clinical Trainee Grant for studying phage titers and clinical outcomes in Cystic Fibrosis patients. Ben Danielson received a T32 Immunology Training Grant for continuing his postdoctoral work. Koshika Yadava received a Child Health Research Institute (CHRI) Postdoctoral Award forContinue reading “Congrats to the New Grant Awardees”

Maria Birukova is a graduate student in the Stanford Medical Scientist Training Program (MSTP). She is a member of the Bollyky lab with a research interest in Pseudomonas aeruginosa biofilms and wound healing research.  Congratulations to Maria. 

The Bollyky Lab was recently awarded a Grand Challenges Grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation  to study  Bacteriophage and the Physical Structure of the Microbiota. This funding was award to the Bollyky Lab together with our collaborators KC Huang in the Stanford Bioengineering Department and Eric Nelson in the Stanford Pediatric Infectious Disease Division.  Further information onContinue reading “Bollyky Lab Awarded a Grand Challenges Grant”

Dr. Nadine Nagy presented her Type 1 diabetes research this week at the Stanford Medicine sponsored symposium  Bridging Clinical and Basic Sciences: Frontiers in Diabetes and Metabolism Research.   She and other Stanford researchers shared the latest developments and technology being used today in diabetes research.

Heather Ishak, the Bollyky lab manager, received the School of Medicine Employee of the Month award for January 2016.  Heather feels incredibly honored to be recognized by Stanford and the Bollyky lab for her work. http://medicine.stanford.edu/news/current-news/employee-of-month/2016/ishak-eotm.html

Dr. Bollyky has received the Falk Catalyst award for 2016 from the Dr. Ralph and Marian Falk Medical Research Trust.   The Catalyst Research Award Program provides one year of seed funding for high risk/ high reward biomedical research.   The Bollyky lab will be looking to solve the problem of antibiotic resistance by the bacteria Pseudomonas aeruginosa.   To hearContinue reading “Falk Catalyst Research Award”

This is an update from our previous post about Ethan winning the Sterling Award.  He has also been selected to receive the 2015-16 Dean’s Award for Academic Achievement!  Ethan is officially an overachiever.  😉 Ethan, an undergraduate researcher in the Bollyky lab, has been honored to receive the J.E. Wallace Sterling Award for Scholastic Achievement.  This award isContinue reading “Ethan Katznelson receives the 2015-16 Dean’s Award and is named a Sterling Scholar”

Dr. Bollyky was selected by the Immunology Graduate Students as the  Immunology Faculty Mentor of the Year!   As part of the reward, he got roasted by the graduate students from our lab and they were not short on material. Dr. Bollyky finally heard the secret definition of what it means “to be Bollyky’ed” (verb) –Continue reading “Faculty Mentor of the Year”

The Bollyky lab is immensely proud and sad to be losing Dr. Shannon Ruppert to Genentech.   Shannon will be a Senior Scientific Researcher in the cancer immunotherapy department.   We are excited for her and her next adventure.  

Cell Host and Microbe has published Bollyky lab research in the 2015 November issue.  Click here to read the full article  or read the summary below. Biofilms—communities of bacteria encased in a polymer-rich matrix—confer bacteria with the ability to persist in pathologic host contexts, such as the cystic fibrosis (CF) airways. How bacteria assemble polymers intoContinue reading “Bollyky Lab in Press @ Cell Host and Microbe”