Dittmann lab

Proteases involved in your pathway of interest?
Manufacturing Adenovirus?
Excited about Host-Virus Interactions? Restriction factors? Here’s something for you from my academic lab:

A day of celebration for Dr. Rachel Prescott, 3rd PhD student to graduate from the lab. Co-mentored with my friend Victor Torres.

Happy Halloween 🎃

Generation of quality-controled SARS-CoV-2 variant stocks - Nature Protocols This protocol describes the generation of single-clone viral stocks from patients with severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2, from the isolation of samples from patient swabs to the purifica...

Very happy to share our learning curve since March 2020 aimed to enhance robustness and reproducibility among research groups.

In this week’s lab meeting, we talked about struggles in your professional life, normalizing them, and brainstorming individual strategies to pull yourself out of the “valley of tears” as well as team strategies to support each other.

We have an open virology faculty search at the University of Illinois! We have world class core facilities and a fantastic collaborative group of young faculty working on cutting edge questions in virus biology...you could be next!

Please re-post/RT/re-bleet/whatever it is called here!

I once pulled this accidentally just after I opened my lab when I wanted to show a new lab member the eye wash. Great first impression… 😂