Updates from the lab

  1. BWF PATH

    MAY 20TH, 2024

    The Ìýis a highly competitive award program that provides $500,000 over five years to study pathogenesis. The program intends to give recipients the freedom and flexibility to pursue new avenues of inquiry, stimulating higher-risk research projects that hold potential for significantly advancing our understanding of how infectious diseases work and how health is maintained.

  2. Kibby Wins Weintraub Graduate Student Award

    The Harold M. Weintraub Graduate Student Award, presented by the Fred Hutch Cancer Center, recognizes exceptional achievement in graduate studies in the biological sciences. The twelve awardees will present their thesis work at a symposium held on May 3rd. Well done Emily!

  3. Conservation and similarity of immunity

    "Conservation and similarity of bacterial and eukaryotic innate immunity" by Ledvina and Whiteley. Check out the .

2023

  1. The ASM Award for Early Career Basic Research

    The recognizes an early career investigator with distinguished basic research achievements in the microbial sciences.

  2. Bacteria Synthesize 2',3'-cGAMP

    "Bacterial cGAS-like enzymes produce 2′,3′-cGAMP to activate an ion channel that restricts phage replication" by Tak et al.ÌýCheck out theÌý.

  3. 2023 Pew Biomedical Scholars

    JUNE 13TH, 2023

    The Pew Scholars Program in the Biomedical Sciences provides funding to young investigators of outstanding promise in science relevant to the advancement of human health. The program makes grants to selected academic institutions to support the independent research of outstanding individuals who are in their first few years of their appointment at the assistant professor level. Whiteley is one of 22 early career scientists who will receive four years of funding to spearhead innovative studies exploring human health and medicine.

    • Read the storyÌýin theÌýColorado Arts and Sciences Magazine
    • Ìýfrom The Pew Charitable Trusts
  4. Emily Kibby is profiled in the Department's Be a Biochemist series!

  5. Kibby et al 2023 Cell Artwork

    "Bacterial NLR-related proteins protect against phage" by Kibby et al. Check out the .

  6. Ledvina and Ye et al Nature 2023

    "An E1–E2 fusion protein primes antiviral immune signalling in bacteria" by Ledvina and Ye et al. Check out the article about our work in CU Today.

2022

  1. NIH DP2 Logo

    TheÌýNIH Director’s New Innovator Award ProgramÌýsupportsÌýexceptionally creative early career investigatorsÌýwho proposeÌýinnovative, high-impact projectsÌýin the biomedical, behavioral or social sciences within the NIH mission. Our work is onÌýDeciphering the crosstalk between bacteria and their mammalian hosts​.

  2. "Bacterial NLR-related proteins protect against phage" by Kibby et al.

  3. AB Nexus Banner

    The AB Nexus Grant Program supports collaborative research between CU Â鶹ӰԺ and CU Anschutz Medical School campuses. Our work is onÌýNucleotide Second Messengers at the Host-Pathogen Interface, in collaboration with Dr.ÌýKelly S. Doran, PhD, (Department of Immunology and Microbiology), CU Anschutz.

    • Read the announcement from the CU Â鶹ӰԺ Office of Research and Innovation
    • ÌýfromÌýCU Anschutz Medical Campus
  4. Boettcher Logo

    JUNE 1ST, 2022

    The Boettcher Foundation has named Aaron and 7 others to the 2022 class of Boettcher Investigators through theÌýBoettcher Foundation’s Webb-Waring Biomedical Research Awards Program.ÌýThe prestigious award supports promising, early career scientific researchers, allowing them to advance their independent research in Colorado and compete for major federal and private awards in the future. Each Boettcher Investigator will receive a $235,000 grant to support up to three years of biomedical research.

    • Read the storyÌýin theÌýColorado Arts and Sciences Magazine
    • from the University of Colorado
  5. MAY 9TH, 2022

    Ashley Sullivan and Ryan Sayegh join the lab!

    Ashley joins the lab as a Ph.D. student in Biochemistry and Ryan joins as a Ph.D. student in MCDB.

  6. Ledvina and Ye et al

    "cGASylation by a bacterial E1-E2 fusion protein primes antiviral immune signaling" by Ledvina and Ye et al.

  7. TheÌýUniversity of Regensburg Undergraduate Research Scholarship is a competitve program that enables undergradraduates to participate in a 10-week research internship in Germany. Well done Melissa!

2021

  1. Mallinckrodt Foundation Grant

    OCTOBER 10TH, 2021

    Our lab was awarded its first grant! The Mallinckrodt Foundation Grant will support our work on antiphage signaling in bacteria.

  2. CRI Logo

    This prestigious three-year award will support his work studying molecular mechanisms of the cGAS-STING pathway. Ceck out the departmental highlight.

    Well done Uday!

  3. JCC Fund

    This prestigious three-year award will support her work studying molecular mechanisms of how bacteria resist phage infection. Check out the departmental highlight.

    Well done Hannah!

  4. Amy Conte 2021

    AmyÌýjoins the lab as a Ph.D. student in Biochemistry

  5. APRIL 9TH, 2021

    Rico Carale is awarded an Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Grant!

    Congrats Rico! We are looking forward to all the great science coming this summer.

  6. MARCH 8TH, 2021

    Amy Conte starts her 4th rotation

    Welcome to the lab!

  7. FEBRUARY 18TH, 2021

    Alfredo Vargas joins the lab!

    Alfredo is joins the lab as an Undergraduate Researcher and Wuttke–Beckman Scholar

  8. JANUARY 15TH, 2021

    Rico Carale joins the lab!

    Rico joins the lab as an Undergraduate Researcher

  9. JANUARY 11TH, 2021

    Logan McCoy and Michael Nagel start their 3rd rotation

    Welcome to the lab!

  10. JANUARY 1ST, 2021

    Uday Tak joins the lab!

    UdayÌýjoins the lab as a Postdoctoral Scholar

2020

  1. Phage Cookies

    DECEMBER, 2020

    Happy Holidays!

    Emily Kibby's festive holiday cookies include a :classy_phage: sporting a monocle and moustache

  2. Hannah Ledvina

    OCTOBER 19TH, 2020

    Hannah Ledvina joins the lab!

    Hannah joins the lab as a Postdoctoral Scholar

  3. OCTOBER 19TH, 2020

    John Chambers starts his rotation

    Welcome to the lab!

  4. Lauren Atencio

    AUGUST 18TH, 2020

    Lauren Atencio starts her 1st rotation

    Welcome to the lab!

  5. Toni Nagy 2020

    AUGUST 3RD, 2020

    Toni Nagy joins the lab!

    Toni joins the lab as a Senior Research Associate

  6. Emily has been awarded two years of grant support from the NIH Graduate Training Program in Signaling and Cellular Regulation. Congrats Emily!

  7. ShutDownStem and ShutDownAcademia

    JUNE 10TH, 2020

    In the Whiteley Lab, we study the molecular mechanisms of bacterial pathogenesis and immune defense, with the hope that our work may lead to new and better treatments for diseases that currently have no cure. One disease that our research does not have the potential to cure, however, is the epidemic of police violence that has killed too many people. Voting, political reform, and education about racial biases and injustice can help end this epidemic. As scientists, we recognize the objective fact that the Black community has been, and continues to be, harmed by the systemic racism that runs rampant in our justice system. Communities of color are disproportionately affected by police brutality and are often subjected to harsher criminal sentences. As human beings, we understand that this injustice hurts us all, and that those with privilege are obligated to use it to lift up those who are oppressed. We support the Black Lives Matter movement and any actions to eradicate systemic injustice.

  8. Reopening boxes in the lab

    MAY 28TH, 2020

    The lab reopens

    Operating at <25% capacity, the lab resumes research! Time to unpack all the boxes...

  9. Emily Kibby 2020

    Emily joins the lab as a Ph.D. student in Biochemistry

  10. Zoom Lab Meeting

    MARCH 19TH, 2020

    Lab meeting #1

    Our first lab meeting! WeÌýmove from in vivo & in vitro to in silico.ÌýThe lab has transitioned to video conferencing for all meetings in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.

  11. MARCH 14TH, 2020

    The lab shuts it's doors

    In order to #flattenthecurve, the lab has gone remote. Saying goodbye to the bench, it's time for everyone to brush up on their office ergonomics!

  12. MARCH 9TH, 2020

    Emma, Whitney, and Emily start their 4th rotation

    Welcome to the lab!

  13. Aidan Litt

    MARCH 9TH, 2020

    Aidan Litt joins the lab!

    Aidan joins the lab as a Professional Research Assistant

  14. Whiteley Lab Overview

    JANUARY, 2020

    The Aaron Whiteley Lab opens!

    The lab opens its doors and finds a home in JSCBB 2nd floor B-wing.