In thrilling Omaha, Nebraska

It’s been almost 10 years since he finished his PhD (old!)

This semester, Paul runs the first iteration of his new laboratory class, teaching the basics of genetic circuit design and assembly and its applications. Let’s hope it all goes well!

(she’s the one with the glasses)

Paul is invited to give a talk about at the inaugural Conference on Bacteriophages: Biology, Dynamics, and Therapeutics, held in Washington D.C. - a new conference series all about phages.

And Paul presents the newest research on mysterious marine mobile genetic elements

A new preprint in collaboration with Toni Luque from U. Miami describes our accidental discovery of a novel genetic element that looks suspiciously like a virus but does not resemble anything we know…

Big News! 

Alex becomes the first graduate of the Kirchberger Lab - congratulations Master Chiconas!

Also, Padam moves on from his short stint in the Kirchberger lab to start a postdoc at UNC Chapel Hill - all the best to you Padam!

A.K.A. the Howard Ochman & Nancy Moran Lab alumni reunion in lovely Austin, Texas.

while Paul sits in the audience!

Lead author Dr. Pavol Bardy from Prof. Fred Antson's lab at the University of York publishes a beautiful new paper in mBio, and we were lucky enough to collaborate with them on this project!

The lab has successfully made our move into LSE006, our new space for years to come.

More good news! The National Insitute of Health are funding our R03 grant "Mechanisms and dynamics of superinfection exclusion in microviral prophage populations".

Paul and Alex travel to the 2024 meeting of the American Society of Microbiology in Atlanta, Georgia

Wherein Paul describes a new phage infecting Rhodobacter with Friend of the Lab and Cryo-EM Wizard Pavol Bardy.

Our new article is published in Annual Reviews of Virology covering microvirus diversity, biology and taxonomy. A beginner's primer for research into these tiny bacteriophages!

New researchers join the lab and teaching commences.