May 2026
Endless kudos to Tucker lab!
Harli- Summer OUR fellowship
Olivia- Summer CROI fellowship, Fall/Spring OUR fellowship
Libby- 2nd place for Allen J. Markovetz Award for her poster at the Microbiology Undergraduate Research Symposium
Kyle- received the 2026 Pulvermacher teaching award and was awarded a spot on the T32 training grant in virology!
Lauren receives her MS in Public Health
Libby presents at the Honors Symposium and receives her BS in Microbiology
April 2026
Harli, Olivia, and Libby present at SURF 2026
March 2026
Tucker lab attends the All Iowa Virology Symposium in Ames, IA
Sheila presented her work and Kyle, Libby, Olivia, and Harli presented posters!
December 2025
November 2025
Olivia and Libby presented their work at FURF
August 2025
Tucker lab awarded V Foundation Research Scholar Grant
June 2025
The Tucker lab welcomes three summer students: Moussa Saab (CROI program, from Cal State, LA), Nick Gorman (MSTP), and Cameron Reimers (visiting from Cornell College). Excited to have you all!
May 2, 2025
Calyssa rocks UI Research day
April 30, 2025
Alaina and Jack wow the crowds at the 2025 UI Spring Undergraduate Research Festival
April 10, 2025
Courtney successfully defends her Master's thesis!
April 9, 2025
Kyle passes comps! Mr. PhD-Candidate-Rapchak!
April 8, 2025
Calyssa is awarded a prestigious NSF GRFP award to support her graduate work. We are so proud.
November 26, 2024
Calyssa receives TWO awards for ABRCMS (travel and best poster!)
https://microbiology.medicine.uiowa.edu/news/2024/11/reu-alumni-shine-abrcms-2024
August 5, 2024
Calyssa Huff, our previous REU student, has been accepted into UI's ICARE postbac program and rejoins the lab:)
July 24th 2024
Bailey and Rylie (our AMAZING summer REU student) present at SURF 2024
July, 2024
Sheila and Jessica attend EBV/KSHV meeting in Boston, MA. It was a blast.
July 2024
The Tucker lab is now FUNDED!
We received 2 years of support through an NIH R21 award. Proud of everyone in the lab and their hard work to get us here.
https://reporter.nih.gov/search/GIKM6fOOPk6ItQ8SAyqacQ/project-details/10809442
May 2024
Sheila passes comps AND gets selected for a T32 training fellowship! Go, Sheila!
April 25, 2024
Bailey and Zach present at the Micro Undergrad Poster Symposium
April 3, 2024
Zach presents his work at SURF-
March 19, 2024
Courtney received a travel award to ASV 2024! Yay!
December 2023
"See you later" lunch for Jasmin!
July 26, 2023
Calyssa wraps up her REU experience with final poster session
We so enjoyed hosting you, Calyssa! Come back soon!
June 2023
Sheila awarded Sloan Mini Grant
April 20, 2023
Microbiology Undergraduate Research Poster Symposium
Jasmin, Mahmoud, and Zach all presented their research in the Tucker lab. Extra kudos: Jasmin was awarded an ICRU fellowship for the upcoming summer and fall semesters. Mahmoud is graduating from Microbiology with honors next month. Finally, Zach won 2nd place for the Allen J. Markovetz Award for his poster! Proud PI.
April 14, 2023
Ariana defends her Masters Thesis!
We are so proud of the work you accomplished, Ari! Wishing you the best as you move forward with your career. We also had a blast celebrating before your move.
February 20, 2023
Kyle gets into the Microbiology PhD program!
We are so happy for Kyle to start his PhD, he has been holding the Tucker lab together as an RA this past year. See you in rotations, Kyle!
Jan 20, 2023
The first Tucker lab publication is hot off the press
We published a review with our herpes/Pol3 partner-in-crime, Sarah Dremel. Ariana is co-first author, yay!
Check it out here: https://authors.elsevier.com/a/1gSXZ3si8PuyKn
The Tucker Lab turns 1!
9/20/2022: It has been one year since the Tucker lab started. We celebrated at Wilson's Orchard. It was a perfect day, and our honorary lab member, Lu, was the life of the party! So grateful to have these people on my team.
2022 Immunology Program Retreat
This year's Immunology Program retreat was fantastic. Proud PI seeing Ariana present her hard work!
2022 Summer Undergraduate Research Conference
Ricardo and Mahmoud presented posters at UI's Summer Undergraduate Research Conference... They both did an excellent job, and we cannot believe the summer is over already!
The Tucker lab celebrates Mahmoud's birthday