Lab News
2024
CALL FOR ART WINNER!! Darci‘s amazing art titled ‘View in a Different Hue’ won to grace the background of the HCI Seminar Series posters during the Fall and Spring Semesters!!
‘View in a Different Hue’ made by Darci Ott
Commencement: They talked the talk and walked the walk!! Congrats, Dr. Hernandez and Dr. Klag!
Our first MD/PhD graduate student, Kendra Klag, defended today! Such a great dissertation. Now she’s heading back to medical school!
Nature Communications
The University of Utah Health Science website features our recently published work in nature communications, AUTISM’S MISSING MICROBES MAY INFLUENCE SOCIAL BEHAVIOR BY PROTECTING THE GUT.
Dr. Jennifer Hill is off to do great things in her new lab! Jen, you will be missed here in the Round Lab, but we can’t wait to see where you take your amazing science!
Check out her lab at the UC Boulder and visit her lab website here. You can also follow her on X.
Look at us! What a fine group of people. Lab fam!!
We made license plates that describe Jen or her work. This was fun! We should do it every going away party. :-)
Customary glass going away present from June.
Yup! That’s a pancreas cake!! Courtesy of Kendra Klags amazing baking skills.
Darci Ott joined the lab! Welcome, Darci!
2023
Congratulations, Dr. Diane Hernandez! You rocked your defense today! What a great way to end the year!
The Round lab family celebrates Christmas with our extended O’Connell lab family! As always, we remember this year’s accomplishments, get goofy with the annual white elephant gift exchange, and award the most helpful, collaborative member. This year’s winner of the 2023 Tamar Tomassian Award for Excellence in Collaboration was Emmanuel Victor! Well deserved!
Outreach - Science Fair Project: “Does the 5 second rule hold true!?”
10th Annual Microbiology and Immunology Retreat!
Kendra - Flash Talk
Emmanuel - Flash Talk
Bloods Lake - Midway Hike
Diane - Session 3: Immune and Microbial Dysfunction in Cancer
Jen - Career Development Panel Discussion
Morgan - Flash Talk
Ricky - Flash Talk
Homestead Crater
In this Nature Reveiws Journal Club, Tao Zuo discusses Dr. Lasha Gogokhia’s seminal 2019 paper on bacteriophage/mammal host interaction!
See the article here!
Celebrating 10 years of amazing science! Happy Labversary, Zac!! What would we do without you?!
The Round Lab represents at Cell Symposia: Infection biology in the age of the microbiome in Paris, France!
Allison Weis wins the 2022 Tamar Tomassian Award for Excellence in Collaboration
2022
Jennifer Hampton Hill is the winner of this year's NOSTER & Science Microbiome Prize
Check out the winning article! From bugs to β cells
Dr. Kyla Ost has finished her postdoc with us and is starting her new lab at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus on July 5th!
Follow her journey on Twitter! @KylaOst
Ty Chiaro, now Dr. Ty Chiaro, is starting his new position as a Clinical Immunology Fellow at UNC on July 1st!
June awarded the honor of Benning Endowed Chair
Newest Members of the Benning Medical Society Good Notes
So proud of Ty Chiaro, who was victorious in defending his Ph.D. thesis today. Congratulations!
2021
Nature
Kyla Ost discusses our Nature paper, Adaptive immunity induces mutualism between commensal eukaryotes on Science Friday.
Celebrating Ricky’s Labversary!
Six years dedicated to the Round lab! Ricky was gifted a backpacking pack, a pretty sweet lab shirt, and a frame to remind her how much she is appreciated!
Round Lab Members receive their 1st dose of the Pfizer vaccine.
2020
Congrats to Garrett Brown, who successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis today!
Pathologist June Round awarded $1M from the W. M. Keck Foundation to expand research on the microbiota.
Lab Meetings over zoom are the new norm.
Our Lab Specialist, Ricky Bell, earned her Masters today!
2019
Celebrating Zac’s Labversary!
Six years in the lab! Dr. Zac Stephens is an integral part of the Round Lab and his time here must be celebrated!
Science
Charisse discusses our recent Science paper, T Cell-Mediated Regulation of the Microbiota Protects Against Obesity (She talks at min 49) on BBC Sounds.
Zac Stephens was interviewed for the Atlantic.
Cell Host & Microbe
Lasha's "Expansion of Bacteriophages Is Linked to Aggravated Intestinal Inflammation and Colitis," was featured on the cover.
The Driving Discovery blog featuring this work on the University of Utah Health Science website.
June was interviewed for TheScientist. (2021)
2017
Common Yeast May Worsen IBD Symptoms in Crohn’s Disease
Wow! Another graduate student success! Ray Soto earned his Ph.D. today. CONGRATULATIONS!
Huge congratulations to our very first graduate student to receive a Ph.D., Charisse Petersen!
2016
Middle school students learn about bacteria on their bodies!
In collaboration with the Natural History Museum of Utah, we have designed a program that allows children ages 10-13 to have a hands-on experience learning about their microscopic inhabitants.
Children culture bacteria from their mouths, look at these bacteria under the microscope, speak with graduate students and post-docs in the lab about their research and visit the germ-free animal facility.
MyD88 Signaling in T Cells Directs IgA-Mediate Control of Microbiota
2015
Round and O’Connell labs hike White Pine Trail
Big shout out to Ty Chiaro for receiving his Masters Degree today, March 12, 2015!
Conversation Between “Good” Bacteria and Immune System Is Key to Digestive Health
2013
Good Bacteria Keeps You Healthy
Pathologist June Round, Ph.D., wins 2nd national award for studying ‘good’ bacteria
Redefining Human: How Microbes Influence Who We Are
2011
The Round Lab is established at the University of Utah
