Quite a few “firsts” happened for the Marsden lab this quarter!
We would like to congratulate Jose on having his paper accepted to Science Advances. This paper details novel synthesized PKC modulator analogs as HIV LRAs and was in collaboration with the Wender lab at Stanford.
The Marsden lab also celebrated Nishad’s birthday (sadly not pictured in the following photos) with dinner after the Institute for Immunology symposium. Coincidentally, it was also Caroline’s first time trying KBBQ! Here, you can see Jose pondering a very interesting question that clearly must have had an interesting answer.
We also attended the 2024 HIV Persistence during Therapy Conference in Fort Lauderdale – a first for Nishad and Tessa! All three presented posters (Jose and Tessa on novel synthesized PKC modulators, Nishad on autophagy induction for CAR-T cell therapy), while Matt gave a talk about the kick and kill cure approach.
The students also visited the World AIDS Museum (pictured below.)
Onto the next year!
