An exciting day for the amazing and soon to be Dr. Emma Lash who is currently defending her PhD 🍄🧬🔬🥼👩‍🔬🌡️

A fantastic review authored by two of our senior graduate students. Congrats Sara and Emily on this wonderful body of work.
Advancements and challenges in antifungal therapeutic development | Clinical Microbiology Reviews journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/cm…

Earlier this week the Cowen Lab kicked off the Holiday season with our annual holiday party and gift exchange. Always a wonderful time celebrating the accomplishments of such a wonderful group of young scientists 🧫🧬🥼👩‍🔬🧑‍🔬 #tisthescience

Congrats to Jessie MacAlpine who recently published DYRK-family kinases regulate Candida albicans morphogenesis and virulence through the Ras1/PKA pathway mBio |journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/mb…

One of the latest stories published by our group focused on how respiration supports intraphagosomal filamentation and escape of Candida albicans from macrophages in mBio journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/mb…

Congratulations to Cowen lab member Aiman Farheen for defending her Master's thesis yesterday! Your hard work paid off and the entire team is so proud of you.

Cowen lab trainees hard at work celebrating Antimicrobial Resistance Awareness Week. Fantastic job as always 🧫🔬🥼🍄 #waaw2023

A wonderful and fascinating Day 1 of the annual Antimicrobial Resistance Symposium 🧫🔬🥼 #waaw2023

To mark the start #WAAW2023 , we spoke with two experts about the drug-resistant fungal pathogen Candida auris - what makes it so worrisome and what we can and should do to prepare.

Read our Q&A with #UofTEPIC members Leah Cowen and Jennie Johnstone: bit.ly/3SPFnsh

An outstanding PhD defence talk from Emily Puumala to wrap up an incredible doctorate degree 🍄🧬🔬🧫

A fun evening of team building with the CIFAR Fungal Kingdom community 🍄 #FashionDream CIFAR

Dr Leah Cowen, VP Research & Innovation at University of Toronto, speaks to how leading countries are embracing science and the need to support researchers in Canada with competitive funding.

Canada must match the ambition of our peers.

#Coalition4CdnResearch #cdnpoli

Yesterday, the Cowen Lab headed to Toronto Island for our summer social! We enjoyed the sunny weather and did a very fun(gal) themed scavenger hunt! A great way to celebrate our team. Special thanks to Sara Fallah, Emily Xiong , and Saif Hossain for organizing! 🍄

Come be my colleague at the University of Michigan! Microbiology+Immunology, Infectious Disease, and Biological chemistry are all hiring tenure track faculty

#hiring a molecular biologist research associate. Must have #PhD . Experience with #yeast is preferred. Email me with your CV and let’s talk! Peeps- please re-tweet- thanks!

🎉Yesterday, four of our phenomenal undergraduate summer students showcased their research at the poster competition for the Departments of Molecular Genetics and Biochemistry. An exciting celebration of all their hard work this summer! 🍄

This is our INCREDIBLE team of undergraduate summer students who have put in a Herculean effort over the past few months. With their hard work, and the leadership of Ci Fu and Linda, we have generated hundreds of new strains for our genome-wide Candida albicans library! 🎉🍄

Fantastic first-year graduate student Kristin Thompson sharing her research on fungal-specific Hsp90 inhibitors at #CSM2023 🍄

PhD candidate Emily Xiong giving a fantastic talk on conditional essentiality in Candida albicans yesterday at #CSM2023 🍄

Latest publication from the Cowen Lab focused on the identification of triazenyl indoles as inhibitors of fungal fatty acid biosynthesis with broad-spectrum activity. A labour of love by Nicole Revie (she/her) Kali Iyer, PhD and many others. Congrats team!

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