June, 2025
Linh and Divya present at the Phagocytes Gordon Research Conference in Waterville Valley, NH while Alissa attends CTVD in Cape Town.
June, 2025
Welcoming our newest lab member, research fellow, Clare Mitchell.
May, 2025
UMass Amherst TB Supergroup hike Bare Mountain in Amherst
May, 2025
Co-authored paper with Carolina Santamaria and the Siegrist lab is out in PNAS!
May, 2025
Divya wins pre-dissertation award through the UMass Graduate School.
May, 2025
Sethe presents her senior undergraduate thesis and officially becomes the Rothchild lab’s first master’s student!
May, 2025
Lucy wins the BMB Linda Slakey Award for 2025!
March, 2025
Sharing our latest pre-print comparing Mtb responses of human and murine alveolar macrophages and monocyte-derived macrophages, in collaboration with the Campo and Hawn labs!
March, 2025
Our latest paper on alveolar macrophage sensing of low-dose LPS, led by graduate student Pamelia Lim, is out in the Journal of Immunology!
February, 2025
Alissa, Divya, and Pamelia at Tuberculosis Keystone Symposia in Boston, MA
February, 2025
We’re excited to have Bismark Minnah, in the Molecular and Cellular Biology program, join us as our newest PhD student!
January, 2025
Congratulations to undergraduate Lucy Phan for being awarded the UMass Honors Research Assistant Fellowship this semester!
October, 2024
Welcoming new MCB rotation students Yi-Hao Hsu and Bismark Minnah, undergraduate Max Steinbock, and saying goodbye to our technician, Ankita Tufts.
September, 2024
Celebrating our recent NIAID R01 grant award to study alveolar macrophage innate sensing of Mycobacterium tuberculosis! Our grant was highlighted by UMass Amherst news!
September, 2024
Welcoming new undergraduate student Emma Dorkin and MCB rotation student Jessica Fong Ng to the lab!
June, 2024
Saying a bittersweet goodbye to Pamelia Lim and Linh Pham for the summer, as they start student externships at Takeda! We can’t wait to see what experiences and approaches they bring back to the lab!
June, 2024
R01 grant submission day!
June, 2024
Our preprint on alveolar macrophage sensing of low dose LPS, led by graduate student Pamelia Lim, posted on bioRxiv!
May, 2024
Rothchild lab at the VASCI Retreat!
May, 2024
Lab outing for ice cream at Flayvors
May, 2024
VASCI Science Day with Aiden McKeeby, a graduating senior in our lab!
March, 2024
Presenting at TB Keystone Symposia in Keystone, CO
March, 2024
Hosting Biotech Tales for the Biotechnology Training Program (BTP) at UMass: Host vs Bacteria in the Fight against TB.
January, 2024
Our paper on alveolar macrophage remodeling following exposure to Mycobacterium was published in PLOS Pathogens and highlighted by the NIH Director’s Blog!
December, 2023
Divya, Pamelia, and Linh presented posters at New England Immunology Conference (NEIC) in Woods Hole, MA
November, 2023
Divya, Pamelia, and Alissa had a blast at the MCB graduate program retreat at Mount Snow, VT!
October, 2023
We welcome Ankita Bal Tufts as our newest full-time lab member!
June, 2023
Alissa, Linh, and Pamelia presenting at the Phagocytes Gordon Research Conference in Waterville Valley, NH!
May, 2023
Divya Dubey has joined our lab as a PhD graduate student! We’re excited for you to join us, Divya!
April, 2023
Alissa traveled to Stellenbosch University in Cape Town, South Africa for a conference for the Immune Mechanisms of Protection against Mycobacterium tuberculosis (IMPAc-TB) consortium.
March, 2023
Two posters presented at at Pioneer Valley Microbiology Symposium (PVMS), hosted at UMass Amherst!
November, 2022
Our newest pre-print on alveolar macrophage reprogramming in the context of mycobacterial exposure is out! https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.09.19.507309v1
October, 2022
Pamelia, Linh, and Alissa all traveled to Woods Hole in Falmouth, MA for the fantastic New England Immunology Conference, including two poster presentations from the lab.
October, 2022
Congratulations to Linh on passing her ORP qualifying exam! Cheers to the second PhD Candidate in the Rothchild lab!
July, 2022
Congratulations to Pamelia on passing her ORP qualifying exam and for her new UMass BTP traineeship!
May, 2022
The whole lab attended an awesome department Research Retreat held at the Terrrazza Country Club in Greenfield, MA. Special shout-out to Linh as a member of the student planning committee!
May, 2022
Congratulations to Sydney Doherty on graduating from UMass as a Pre-Vet Major in the VASCI department! Tufts Veterinary School is lucky to have you!
Additional shout-out to Brenda Genium for her acceptance as a UMass Amherst LSAMP Scholar!
May, 2022
Congratulations to Pamelia on receiving a Graduate School Predissertation Research Grant to fund a pilot project in the lab examining macrophage ontogeny using fate-mapping mouse models!
January, 2022
We’re funded!!!! Our NIH/NIAID R21 “Nrf2 regulation of alveolar macrophage immune responses in vivo to Mycobacterium tuberculosis” has been awarded. We can’t wait to get started evaluating the role of Nrf2 in regulating alveolar macrophage innate immune functions during infection!
December, 2021
Our lab’s first review paper is published in Expert Reviews in Molecular Medicine: “Alveolar macrophages: novel therapeutic targets for respiratory diseases.”
November, 2021
Alissa and Linh present at the New England Immunology Conference, Woods Hole, MA.
Bundled up at the campus center for Pamelia’s baby shower
October, 2021
Pamelia presents a poster and talk at the MCB program retreat at beautiful Stratton Mountain!
September, 2021
Welcome to Sydney Doherty and Brenda Genium, our two new undergraduate research assistants!
August, 2021
We’re so excited to see the MA900 Sony cell sorter installed in the BSL-3. TB cell sorting here we come!
May, 2021
Linh Pham has officially joined our lab! Welcome Linh!
April, 2021
We’re excited Linh Pham is rotating in our lab and Pamelia has joined our lab. Yay for grad students!
February, 2021
Pamelia Lim will be starting as an MCB rotation student. Welcome Pamelia!
January, 2021
Alissa is presenting at Pioneer Valley Microbiology Symposium (PVMS).
The lab’s murine breeding colony is established!
October, 2020
Maritza Cervantes Palacios joined the lab as a Research Fellow.
September, 2020
The Rothchild lab opened in the Veterinary and Animal Sciences Department at UMass Amherst!
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