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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...

With fall quarter rolling in, we wanted to recap a very eventful summer! Starting off: Tessa is published now! Her first author review, "HIV Latency, Persistence, and Cure Approaches: Where Are We Now?" was submitted and accepted into Viruses. We also have welcomed a...

Happy summer! Beyond enjoying the warm weather, we're also very excited to welcome new technician Caroline to the lab (and Orange County!)

Congratulations on passing! Nishad and Tessa are now well on their way to starting their third year. Looking forward to seeing what the future holds for our new "old-timers!"

Happy Grad Day! Tessa, Nishad, and Jose all presented their research at the School of Medicine's Grad Day. Tessa gave a two-minute lightning talk entitled "Kicking HIV out of Latency" and a poster, while Nishad and Jose presented their work on rapamycin as an...

The Marsden lab recently attended the national Palm Springs Symposium on HIV/AIDS. Nishad presented his work on "Defining the consequences of autophagy induction during HIV latency reversal," Tessa presented a poster on "The RNA exosome contributes to degradation of...

The Rose Hills Foundation Fellowship is intended to recognize and reward our most meritorious graduate students who are pursuing a graduate degree in the life or natural sciences or engineering. This fellowship is awarded to underrepresented students in STEM with...

José recently passed his advancement exam and is now a Ph.D. candidate! Here is the lab celebrating with some KBBQ

Congratulations to José and Tessa for successful presentations at the QTABS community symposium! José presented a poster, while Tessa gave a five-minute lightning talk that won the Judge's Choice award for the best lightning talk. 

We welcome PhD students Tessa Chou and Nishad Maggirwar to the Marsden Lab. Nishad will be studying the potential of autophagy induction to improve HIV latency reversal, while Tessa will be optimizing HDAC inhibitor and PKC modulator latency reversal treatments....