
Jack Crow passed his oral qualifying exams and became the first PhD Candidate in the lab.
The lab was awarded a five year grant from the NIH, an NIAID DP2 New Innovator Award, to study "Mucosal IgA induction and spatiotemporal regulation of the microbiome"
Vivian Yang was awarded a one year postdoctoral fellowship from the UCLA Goodman-Luskin Microbiome Center.
The lab was awarded a grant from UCLA's Microbiome Vaccine Program (MVP) for "Developing autochthonous probiotics for Helicobacter resistance and gastric epithelial restoration."