News & Events

October 11, 2024

Jiawen was accepted into the Michigan Pioneer Fellows Program!

Jiawen has been accepted into the Michigan Pioneer Fellows Program and received fellowship support from the program. Congratulations Jiawen!!!

August 18, 2024

Abdulsalam received the Best Trainee Talk at MNID-2024 and was selected to present at the 2024 ASTMH annual meeting!

Abdulsalam presented his Ph.D. research work at the 2024 Midwest Neglected Infectious Diseases (MNID) meeting and received the Best Trainee Talk award. This award will allow him to present his work at the 2024 ASTMH annual meeting (New Orleans) in November this year.

June 28, 2024

Audrey received our first T32 in the lab!

Audrey was selected to receive support for the next two years from the Michigan Predoctoral Genetics Training T32 Program (GTP). Congratulations, Audrey!!!

February 20, 2024

Our study on Toxoplasma-mediated NLRP1 inflammasome activation has been published.

Our paper entitled "Host E3 ubiquitin ligase ITCH mediates Toxoplasma gondii effector GRA35-triggered NLRP1 inflammasome activation and cell-autonomous immunity" is published online in mBio today!

Read the paper here!

February 06, 2024

Our lab wins the Research Scouts funding.

The Wang lab is awarded $150,000 from the Research Scouts Program at the University of Michigan Medical School to study the virulence of atypical Toxoplasma strains.

August 01, 2023

The Wang lab is awarded an NIH-R00 grant.

We are pleased to announce that Dr. Yifan Wang and the Wang lab have been awarded an NIH R00 grant entitled "Toxoplasma effector-mediated modulation of innate immune pathways in non-murine macrophages".

January 02, 2023

The Wang lab officially opened in January 2023.

Dr. Yifan Wang started the Assistant Professor position in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology at the University of Michigan Medical School, and the Wang lab officially opened.