Drake Philip

If you’re at the Positive Strand RNA Viruses Keystone Symposia, come visit my poster (number 1037) tonight! I’m super excited to be presenting some new microscopy data that’s been in the works for several years now 😎🔬🦠

Second paper from my thesis work in the @LazearLab, @nigelmgo and I serendipitously found fur plucking to induce HSV reactivation, providing a simple and tractable model to study HSV recurrent disease in the skin! journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/ms…

Very excited about our review in Annual Review of Virology: Antiviral and Immunomodulatory Effects of Interferon Lambda at the Maternal-Fetal Interface annualreviews.org/content/journa…

@LazearLab past and present meet up at #ASV2024 @MargaretDedloff @becCazz_ @virensxm

Final presentation today from my time in the @LazearLab showing some of the future directions we are thinking about with IFN-λ and STAT2!!

I absolutely love this work & feel so lucky to be doing it. I’m so grateful I got to share it today! 🦠 #ASV2024 #LoveVirology

I give my first ASV talk tomorrow!!!

Check out our new preprint! Simultaneous polyclonal antibody sequencing and epitope mapping by cryo electron microscopy and mass spectrometry – a perspective. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

@LazearLab toured the mammalogy research collection at the NC Museum of Natural History! No viruses but lions, tigers, bears, bats, rodents, and whales oh my!

@mmcfadden27 Congrats!!!

Last week I presented my rotation research from the @LazearLab and received my white (lab) coat, making me an official member of @UNC_Micro_Imm! Looking forward to learning lots about bunyaviruses while investigating neuroinvasive arbovirus pathogenesis!

LazLab drinks to welcome Celeste and Abbie joining the lab and finishing their first week of their dissertation! @abbieweight @CelesteRRobles

@JennyLoome @Heise_Lab Yay! Congrats Jenny!

My first, first-author paper is officially published! It's a really cool (in my unbiased opinion) methods paper on a competition assay for RNA viruses. A great team in the @Heise_Lab worked together to pull it off! mdpi.com/1999-4915/16/4…

UNC 9th floor Commitment to a fun science weekend at SERVC in Atlanta 🐟

@LazearLab And I am so lucky to have shared this day with people from so many aspects of my life as everyone had a role in supporting me to achieve this milestone!

I’m so grateful for my time in the @LazearLab throughout my PhD. I have been so fortunate to not only be able to work on incredible science but to be able to do it with some of the best people who make the job so fun 😊

Yesterday I was able to share with friends, family, and colleagues in person and on zoom my thesis work after having defended my PhD!

First, first-author paper published today in mBio and had a chance to celebrate with everyone who made this work happen! @LazearLab @nigelmgo Here we show a protective role for IFN-λ signaling in the skin to restrict severe HSV disease 🦠 journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/mb…

Excited to share our preprint on a new model to study HSV reactivation-fur plucking!! @nigelmgo @LazearLab

@NirDrayman Thank you, I promise I’m sprinting to the end! Warm during a post doc is a tempting pitch right there!

@DTPtoPhD Congrats Drake! Time to wrap up that PhD and join us on sunny southern california for your postdoc!

First first-author preprint out now! Stay tuned for the published story😊