Erin Curtis is rotating in the Rawls lab as a first year student in Duke’s Molecular Genetics and Microbiology Program. Welcome, Erin!

Congratulations to Ted Espenschied on the successful defense of his Ph.D. dissertation! It was entitled “Chemical and Microbial Regulation of Epithelial Homeostasis and Innate Immunity”.

Working with other members of the Rawls, Tobin, and Redinbo labs, Ted revealed that delamination of intestinal epithelial cells is a protective response to chemical injury in the zebrafish intestine, and uncovered a critical role… Graduate student Ted Espenschied publishes article in PNAS

Eileen Gu has joined the Rawls lab and Duke Z-CORE as a research technician. Welcome, Eileen!

Congratulations to Cait Murdoch on the successful defense of her Ph.D. dissertation! It was entitled “Mechanisms underlying commensal microbiota colonization of the intestine and effects on innate immunity”.