The Cordy Lab participated in the 100th Annual American Society of Parasitologists Meeting held in Winston-Salem in July 2025. We were delighted to host Dr. Akhil Vaidya as an invited speaker.
Tryphena flew out to Los Angeles and represented our lab at the American Society of Microbiology meeting, presenting her findings over the weekend on the microbiome during malaria infection. P. knowlesi malaria expert Mariko Peterson was in the audience and expressed that Tryphena’s talk was fascinating and that she did awesome. Way to go Tryphena!
The WFU Biology Department declared Kevin as an Outstanding Teaching Assistant! The department is grateful for what he does on behalf of the students and are proud of what he accomplished. Congratulations Kevin!
he American Society for Microbiology (ASM) has selected Tryphena as a recipient of the Student and Postdoctoral Travel Award to support her participation in ASM Microbe 2025. As Tryphena’s work focuses on commensal bacteria in the gut, she will present her work at a bacteria/microbiome-centric meeting this summer.
Kevin did a great job delivering his grant proposal to his committee. He did wonderful, and he passed. He is now completely done with all aspects of the qualifying exam. Congratulations Kevin!
The 35th Molecular Parasitology Meeting was held in Woods Hole, Massachusetts. Cordy Lab graduate students attending the meeting. Dinah and Tryphena each got to present their posters!
UBTM is a campaign that advocates for essential malaria and global health interventions including implementation of holistic strategies toward these goals and a mobilization of resources. Dinah recently went to Capitol Hill to work with UBTM and spoke with congressional offices (both House of Representatives and Senate) on the hill about the need to continue investing in global health and malaria eradication worldwide. Way to go Dinah!
The Cordy Lab’s proposal on mosquito collections in and around campus, as well as in North Carolina—entitled ”Malaria in Your Own Backyard”—was recently funded as a Wake Forest Pilot Research Grant! Congrats to the group!
Read this new research paper published by the Cordy Group!
