April 2025: Harrison Scarboro has been awarded the Fralin SURF fellowship!
March 2025: Noah Oakland won the AAI Trainee Abstract Award!
July 2024: Noah Oakland has been awarded an NIH F30 Ruth L. Kirschstein Individual Predoctoral NRSA for MD/PhD Dual Degree Fellowship! Congratulations Noah!! See here for EurekAlert and VT News articles.
November 2023: Razan Alajoleen successfully defended her PhD dissertation! Congratulations Razan!
June 2023: Xin M. Luo was promoted to full professor. She went on sabbatical for two months as a visiting professor at Department of Microbiology and Immunology in University of Otago, New Zealand.
April 2023: The Luo Laboratory has been awarded a DoD Lupus Idea Award.
October 2022: The Luo Laboratory has been awarded an iTHRIV pilot grant in collaboration with Carilion Clinic to study infant stool microbiome.
August 2022: Xin M. Luo was interviewed by MIT Technology Review about her work at Caltech.
July 2022: Xavier Cabana-Puig successfully defended his PhD dissertation! Congratulations Xavier!
February 2022: The Luo Lab celebrates 10-year anniversary!
October 2021: Leila Abdelhamid successfully defended her PhD dissertation! Congratulations Leila!
April 2021: Xavier Cabana-Puig won the AAI Trainee Abstract Award!
March 2021: Brianna Swartwout successfully defended her PhD dissertation! Congratulations Brianna!
February 2021: Our PNAS paper titled “Regulation of neonatal IgA production by the maternal microbiota” was featured in EurekAlert and VTNews! Welcome Ran Lu!
January 2021: Leila Abdelhamid won the Outstanding Doctoral Student Award!
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