Lab News

April 17, 2024

The Richer Lab welcomes Scott Lovell to the team! We are all excited to do great science with you!

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November 6, 2023

Congratulations to Alex for passing her qualifying exam! Great job!

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October 3, 2023 

Congrats to Martin on receiving the Randy S. Rosenthal Graduate Student Advocacy Award!

We are very proud of you for receiving this student nominated award!

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August 9, 2023

Congratulations to Molly!!!! She did amazing at her qualifying exam and we are very proud of you!!!!

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July 21, 2023

Martin will race in the Dust Bowl 100 tomorrow! Good luck Martin! You can do it!

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June 1, 2022

The Richer Lab 2.0 welcomes Molly and Alex to the team! Excited to do great science with everyone!

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April 23, 2022

The Richer Lab welcomes Molly Lumnitzer to the team! Molly will start her PhD in the spring of 2022!

Welcome Molly and we look forward to doing great science with you!

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April 1, 2022

Congrats to Dr. Pardy on publishing the final chapter of his PhD thesis!

All thesis chapters published! Great job! We are very proud of you!!!

Check out Dr. Pardy's recent publication in The Journal of Immunology! check it out!

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November 11, 2021

The Richer Lab welcomes Alex Carter to the team! Alex will start her PhD in the spring of 2022!

Welcome Alex and we look forward to doing great science with you!

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July 29, 2021

Check out Dr. Pardy's recent publication in Nature Communications! check it out!

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October 1, 2020

Congrats to Ryan who defended his PhD thesis today!!!

The Richer Lab is very proud and we wish you all the luck in your Postdoc!!!  

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September 1, 2020

It's the Richer Lab's 1st day at Indiana University School of Medicine! 

 

The Richer Lab joined the Department of Microbiology and Immunology at the Indiana University School of Medicine in Indianapolis, Indiana!

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We are looking forward to doing great science with our new colleagues!

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July 23, 2020

Good News Everyone! The Richer Lab is moving in September to Indiana University School of Medicine in Indianapolis Indiana. Thank you to everyone that have supported us and special thanks to all our trainees that have made science fun!

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July 18, 2020

Congrats to Stef for finishing her M.Sc. degree!!!! We are proud of you and good luck with your PhD!!!!

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May 30, 2020

Martin was interviewed by Stefanie Valbon of ImmunoThoughts. The interview describes Martin's journey to becoming a scientist and provides insight/advice to young scientists. Check out Martin's interview on ImmunoThoughts!

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May 26, 2020

Congrats to Martin for receiving tenure and promotion!!!!! YAY!!!!!!!!!

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May 19, 2020

Congrats to Ryan and Stef for being awarded the MIMM Yaphe award for the best presentation by a PhD student and Masters student. We've made the lab proud! Good job!

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May 2, 2020

Check out our recent publication in ImmunoHorizons! Thank you to everyone that helped out!!! check it out here!!!

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April 7, 2020

Congrats to Ryan who received a travel award from the Canadian Society for Immunology!

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March 13, 2020

Congrats to Ryan who received the MIMM Graduate Student of the Year and the MIMM Graduate Research Award!

Congrats to Stef who presented her research at the T Cell Memory Keystone Symposia held in Banff Alberta!

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March 4, 2020

Martin recently presented some of our Zika virus work at The University of Vermont and The University of Manitoba! Thanks for the invite and allowing us the share our exciting Zika virus data!

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February 18, 2020

Congrats to Ryan who was chosen for a talk and who received an AAI Trainee Abstract Award to attend the Annual meeting of The American Association of Immunologists held at the Hawai'i Convention Center, Honolulu, HI from May 8-12, 2020. Check out the conference here!

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Congrats to Stef who presented her MSc final presentation! Great work you made the Richer Lab so proud!!!

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January 6, 2020

Happy New Year!!!!!

Congrats to Stef who received the Canderel Travel award to attend the The Keystone Symposia - T cell Memory meeting held in Banff, AB from March 1-5, 2020. Check out the conference here!

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December 6, 2019

Congrats to Martin and Jeff who published their review in Molecular Immunology! check it out!!!

 

November 21, 2019

Congrats to Ryan who presented his PhD final presentation! Great work you made the Richer Lab so proud!!!

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November 6, 2019

Congrats to Ryan and Dom for receiving AAI talk awards and Stef for receiving the AAI abstract award at MIM!!!

The 6th Annual Meetings d'Immunologie de Montreal Immunology Meetings (MIM) Symposium was a great success!!! Thank you to all speakers and organizers that made it a wonderful fun filled day of science!!!

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November 5, 2019

The 6th Annual Meetings d'Immunologie de Montreal Immunology Meetings (MIM) Symposium will be held on November 6, 2019. This year's symposium is entitled: Humoral Responses in Health, Disease and Vaccination. Looking forward to a great day of science!!! Check out the speaker list here!

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October 21, 2019

Martin will take part in the 22nd Annual Upstate New York Immunology Conference held at The Otesaga Resort in Cooperstown, NY, from October 27-30, 2019. Check out the conference here!

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October 1, 2019

Happy Birthday to the Richer Lab!!!! Celebrating 5 years!!! Thank you to all that made it possible!!!

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September 23, 2019

Congrats to Ryan who recently published a review in Viruses! check it out!

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August 4, 2019

Congrats to Ryan who recently published a review in Cells! check it out!

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July 4, 2019

Richer Lab welcomes our newest member Miranda Yu to the team!!! Looking forward to some great science!!!

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May 25, 2019

Ryan and Marilena tied the knot! It was a great day celebrating with the happy couple! We wish you guys a lifetime of love, laughter, happiness and of course good science!!! Weekend science leading to a lifelong adventure together!!!

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May 7, 2019

Congrats to Stef for winning 1st place in the poster category and to Tracey for winning 1st place in speed-talk category at the 8th Annual Symposium on Cytokines in Inflammation, Ageing, Cancer and Obesity (CIACCO) in Saint-Camille, Quebec 

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May 1, 2019

Congrats to Dominic for being awarded a Post-Doctoral Fellowship from The Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR)!!!

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April 30, 2019

Congrats to Stef for being awarded a Fonds de recherche du Québec - Santé (FRQS) Master's scholarship!!!

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April 24, 2019

Congrats to Ryan for being awarded a Frederick Banting and Charles Best Canada Graduate Scholarships - Doctoral Awards (CGS-D) from The Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR)!!!

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Congrats to Stef for winning a 4th place poster award (Master category) at the Annual Spring 2019 meeting of the Canadian Society for Immunology in Banff, AB!

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April 8, 2019

Congrats to Tracey for being awarded a Canada Graduate Scholarships - Masters Award from The Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR)!!!

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April 1, 2019

Welcome to our new Postdoc Dominic Roy to the Richer Lab!!!! Looking forward to some great science!!!

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March 22, 2019

Congrats to Stef who was chosen for a talk at the Annual Spring 2019 meeting of the Canadian Society for Immunology held at the Banff Centre, Banff, AB from April 12-15, 2019. 

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March 14, 2019

Congrats to Ryan and Stef who recently published a review in Cytokine! check it out!

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Congrats to Ryan who was chosen for a talk and who received a travel award from MIM to attend the Annual Spring 2019 meeting of the Canadian Society for Immunology held at the Banff Centre, Banff, AB from April 12-15, 2019. 

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Congrats to Ryan who was chosen for a talk and who received an AAI Trainee Abstract Award to attend the Annual meeting of The American Association of Immunologists held at the San Diego Convention Center, San Diego, CA from May 9-13, 2019.

Check out the conference here!

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February 20, 2019

Congrats to Stef who received a travel award to attend the Spring 2019 meeting of the Canadian Society for Immunology held at the Banff Centre, Banff, AB from April 12-15, 2019. Looking forward to hearing about all the great science being done in Canada! 

Check out the conference here!

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Congrats to Sequoia who accepted a PhD position in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology at the University of Iowa! Proud to be a Hawkeye! Go Hawks!

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January 23, 2019

Richer Lab and Sagan Lab were awarded a CIHR project grant for their Zika virus collaborative research!!!!!

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January 3, 2019

Happy New Year!!!!!

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December 5, 2018

Martin will take part in the McMaster Immunology and Infection Program Seminar Series on Dec 5, 2018. Check out his talk entitled: Learning to counter immunity: A Zika virus story.

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November 8, 2018

Meetings d'Immunologie de Montreal Immunology Meetings. 5th Annual MIM Symposium: Spatial Processes in Adaptive Immunity was held on November 7, 2018. Great turnout and thank you to all the speakers that did a fantastic job!

For more information please see MIM website!

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October 23, 2018

Martin will present some of our work at uOttawa this week! check it out!

He will be presenting at the Nanoscale Flow Cytometry for Cancer, Infection, & Disease Symposium at the University of Ottawa from October 24-26, 2018! His talk is entitled: No need to sugar coat it: N-glycan branching promotes T cell dysfunction during chronic infection. see the lineup here!

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September 4, 2018

Welcome back to school!

Stefanie officially starts the MSc program and Sequoia officially starts as an Honours student!

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June 15, 2018

Congrats to Stefanie for being accepted to the MSc program! Looking forward to having you do grad school in the lab! 

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June 8, 2018

Congrats to Tracey for winning 1st place MSc poster award and to Ryan for winning 2nd place PhD poster award at the Department of Microbiology & Immunology Grad Research Day at McGill University

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June 4, 2018

Congrats to Stefanie for winning 2nd place MSc poster award and Ryan winning a travel award at the 31st Annual Spring Meeting for the Canadian Society for Immunology at Western University in London, Ontario. In addition, Martin was awarded the CSI New Investigator Award and a travel award.

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May 25, 2018

Congrats to Stefanie for winning 1st place oral presentation the 7th Annual Symposium on Cytokines in Inflammation, Ageing, Cancer and Obesity in Saint-Camille, Quebec