Lab News
April 2025 - New preprint out on immunoglobulins in Artibeus jamaicensis, a collaboration with Tony Schountz’s group at CSU, Taylor Pursell and Tanya Lama. Congrats to Ashley Reers on this tour de force!
March 2025 - Congratulations to Mika O’Shea, the BaT lab’s newest PhD candidate!
February 2025 - Congrats to Phoebe Reuben on the publication of some of her undergraduate fieldwork in Ecosphere!
February 2025 - New preprint out with Dan Becker’s lab and other colleagues on the diversity of bat immunity.
November 2024 - Congratulations to Andrea Calderon Brito for advancing to PhD candidacy!
November 2024 - New review paper out about studying bats using a OneHealth lens.
October 2024 - Much of the lab attended the North American Symposium on Bat Research in Guadalajara, Mexico!
Special shoutout to Andrew Spencer, who did his first ever conference presentation, and Phoebe Reuben, who won a poster award!!
August 2024 - New preprint out as part of a collaboration with Scott Boyd’s laboratory at Stanford, led by Stanford PhD student, Taylor Pursell! Vespers have two IGH loci. Wild!
May 2024 - Congratulations to BS grads, Chiara Whitehurst and Ben Perry, who both won departmental prizes! And we’re so excited to be holding onto Chiara as our tech this coming year!
April 2024 - Congratulations, Hannah Eiseman, on advancing to PhD candidacy!
March 2024 - Congratulations, Phoebe Reuben, on advancing to PhD candidacy!
August 2023 - Welcome, Mika O’Shea, our Lighthouse Scholar, to the lab!
August 2023 - Congratulations, Juniper Rosen, on advancing to PhD candidacy!
June 2023 - Thank you, Dr. Carter A. Lea, for the amazing logo! (If you want to hire them, do it!: calea<at>tulane.edu)
January 2023 - Welcome, Dr. Ashley Reers, to the lab!
August 2022 - Thank you to the NSF for funding for the Biology Integration Institute! We’re looking for a postdoc and a PhD student!
August 2022 - Welcome, officially, Juniper Rosen and Andrea Calderon Brito, to the lab!
August 2022 - Congrats to Phoebe Reuben on winning a poster award at her very first International Bat Research Conference!
July 2022 - New paper out in Proc B!
April 2022 - Congratulations to Phoebe Reuben on being awarded an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship!!!!!!
March 2022 - Huge thank you to NIH for funding our work on bat adaptive immune responses to rabies vaccination and infection! We’re looking for a postdoc!!
December 2021 - Thanks to the Research Corporation for Scientific Advancement for their support! And thanks to Tulane for the nice article and pic!