Regina Cordy – Cordy Lab

Congratulations Caroline on completing the Wake Forest LEAP program!

by Regina Cordy August 1, 2022August 1, 2022Comments are Disabled

The Cordy Lab was honored to participate in the inaugural year of the Wake Forest LEAP program which pairs local high school students with Wake Forest faculty for a summer experience in STEM. Caroline Thornton from Reynolds High School joined us this summer and gained several new skills, including: staining slides, using a compound microscope, using an image analysis software, and a graphing software. Further, she used the opportunity to meet with faculty and other individuals on campus for informational interviews to help set her up for the next steps in her education. You can read about the LEAP program and its awesome end-of-summer symposium, which was held on Friday June 29th in this article published in the Winston Salem Journal.

Reflecting on my history

by Regina Cordy July 31, 2022July 24, 2022Comments are Disabled

“Five years ago today, this article was published by the wonderful folks at the NC State University Library. The article describes a visit in which I brought my family members to NC State to bask in the history that my grandmother had made by being the first African-American staff member hired at NC State. She was hired as a research technician in the Genetics Department in 1958, two years before the first African American undergraduate students graduated from NC State. While she passed away in 2003, I enjoy finding ways to honor her and “bring her along with me” in my career. I dedicated my PhD thesis to her in 2013 and mentioned her in my article in Trends in Parasitology in 2021. I also keep her microscope in my office, and am so grateful to Trudy Mackay, Henry Schaffer, and other folks at NC State for giving me this piece of our family history!”
– Regina Cordy, July 31 2022

Dinah passed her quals!

by Regina Cordy June 30, 2022July 24, 2022No Comments

What a big hurdle! Congrats to Dinah on getting past this important milestone in her PhD career!

Mari’s PhD work on P. knowlesi pathogenesis is now published!

by Regina Cordy June 23, 2022July 25, 2022Comments are Disabled

Mariko Peterson, who is a former member of the Cordy Lab (where she did a mini-postdoc) and the Galinski Lab (where she did her PhD) is the lead author on two recent publications summarizing our findings about P. knowlesi pathogenesis. Check them out here:

Clinical recovery of Macaca fascicularis infected with Plasmodium knowlesi

Plasmodium knowlesi Cytoadhesion Involves SICA Variant Proteins

Way to go Mari & team!

Cordy Lab welcomes our first WFU LEAP program student, Caroline!

by Regina Cordy June 21, 2022July 24, 2022No Comments

Welcome Caroline Thornton, a high school student who is part of the Wake Forest LEAP (Lab Experiences: Academics and Professions) program! We are happy to have you join our lab this summer. You can read more about the WFU LEAP program here.

Welcome Irene!

by Regina Cordy May 23, 2022July 13, 2022No Comments

We are welcoming a new student to our lab this summer – Irene Bai – who is a Wake Forest Research Fellowship awardee! Looking forward to having her with us this summer!

RJC speaks at the BioMalPar meeting

by Regina Cordy May 23, 2022July 24, 2022No Comments

Lab PI Regina Cordy gives a talk at the EMBL BioMalPar XVII meeting. The meeting was hybrid style. Hope to join in person next time! Check out the schedule of the meeting here.

End of semester gathering!

by Regina Cordy April 28, 2022July 13, 2022No Comments

Sending off a group of amazing seniors this year! Congratulations Jordan, Noelle, Arisbeth & James! Woo hoo class of 2022! You survived a pandemic, a fertilizer fire, and so much drama in your time as students. What a crazy few years. We wish you the absolute best as you carry on your journeys to the next steps in your careers!

Welcome President Wente!

by Regina Cordy March 25, 2022July 21, 2022No Comments

Wake Forest officially installs its new President – cellular biologist Dr. Susan Wente! Check out the Winston Salem Journal’s Photo Gallery of the event here, featuring a photo of Wake Forest STEM faculty (L-R, Pat Lord, Susan Fahrbach, Regina Cordy, Lauren Lowman)

Kevin & the Cordy Lab featured in Wake Forest TechX !

by Regina Cordy March 21, 2022July 13, 2022No Comments

The Cordy Lab was selected by the Wake Forest High Performance Computing Team (WF HPC Team) to be profiled for a video presentation entitled “TechX 2022: Accelerate your Research!” This video highlights how the WFU HPC Team and WFU Deac Cluster are helping us to advance our research through their excellent support of our high performance computing tasks! Check out the video on their YouTube channel here. Shout out to grad student Kevin Coffey who did the leg work to get our lab started on the cluster!