Lab bonding! (8th March '25)
#StandupforScience2025, outside the State House, Indianapolis (7th March '25)
On our way to the Southeastern Center of Excellence in Vector-Borne Diseases 2025 meeting, St Augustine, Florida (15th Jan 2025)
Fall '24 - new family photo!
Halloween (31st Oct '24)
Microbiology retreat, Bloomington (13th Oct '24)
James's first poster presentation! Microbiology retreat, Bloomington (13th Oct '24)
First R01 submitted! - our labs are the best, they surprised us with an awesome cake and candles! (30th Sept '24)
James's White Coat ceremony! (20th Sept '24)
Dinner with two incredible women - Sabrina Absalon and Joana Faria (5 Sept '24). Click on the photo to check out Sabrina's work!
Dorcus's birthday! (29th July '24)
Summer celebration! (25 July '24)
Izzy's poster presentation! (25th July '24)
Oropouche virus Satellite meeting at Bunya2024 (17th July '24)
ASV with our Pitt friends (28 June '24)
To celebrate a successful year and successful conference! (ASV; 27th June '24)
Us at the ASV! (24th June '24)
Krista and Dorcus with their posters at the ASV! (24th June '24)
Our first grad students! (16th May '24)
2024 Microbiology and Immunology Department Retreat! (16th May '24)
Annual Department Retreat at NCAA Headquaters in Indy! (16th May '24)
We had the pleasure of hosting Emily! Click the picture to check out all the cool work her lab does! (4th April '24)
The first Indiana Virology Symposium! (26th March '24)
Anita from the Center for Vaccine Research, University of Pittsburgh visited us! Click on the picture to check out the cool work Anita's lab does! (7th March '24)
Fun service day with The Vornhagen Lab at Gleaners Food Bank where we re-labeled and packaged tortillas! (29th Jan '24)
Last Lab meeting of 2023! The Tilston Lab and The Vorhagen Lab! It's been a fun year! (18th Dec '23)
Department Holiday Party! (2nd Dec '23)
Department Holiday Party! (2nd Dec '23)
Krista presenting her work on Oropouche virus at the dept's weekly Host Immunity to Pathogens (HIP) meeting! Its also her one year anniversary in the lab! (2nd Nov '23)
It's Halloween! (31st Oct '23)
Halloween cookie decorating for lab meeting! we are a very artistic bunch it seems (30th Oct '23)
Department picnic and baseball game! Victory Field (22nd Sept '23)
dark read camera filters aren't just meant for fluorescent viruses! Krista and Kat (13th Sept '23)
We are a year old!! (1st Sept '23)
Lab social at Jay's with tasty Puerto Rican food he cooked for us! (12th Aug '23)
Service day with the Vornhagen lab at Eagle Creek to help prep for the National Masters Rowing Regatta events! (17th July '23)
Krista explaining her work on Oropouche virus at the ASV! (27th June '23)
IU's virologists from Indy and Bloomington campus at the ASV! (27th June '23)
Pit stop at the CDC museum in Atlanta before we head to the ASV in Athens, GA! (23rd June '23)
The Vornhagen Lab and The Tilston Lab game night! (7th June '23)
The Vornhagen Lab and The Tilston Lab game night! (7th June '23)
2023 Microbiology and Immunology Department Retreat! (25th May '23)
Krista presenting her work at the Micro and Immuno retreat! (Bloomington, 25th May '23)
Ready to look at some fluorescent viruses! (14th May '23)
Oropouche virus infected cells. The first image of the lab! Krista's hard work! (13th April '23)
We had the pleasure of hosting Kevin from the Center for Vaccine Research, University of Pittsburgh. Click on the picture to check out the cool work Kevin's lab does! (23rd Feb '23)
Happy faces! we rescued our first BSL-3 virus! (17th Feb '23)
Lab's first poster! - ready to go meet some potential grad students! IBMG grad program (9th Feb '23)
Jay's office door (click image to go to Jay's lab site), my door and the lab's door. As a new generation of PIs we hope to bring about changes to the culture and attitude of academia. These may just be stickers on a door, but it's a start (8th Feb '23)
five months later and the lab is functioning! Krista is hard at work (1st Feb '23)
Officially a virologist! :) Krista's first bunyavirus plaque assay! also, the lab's first plaque assay! (23rd Jan '23)
First joint lab meeting with The Vornhagen Lab! (click to check out Jay's work!). Krista (first member of the Tilston lab) presenting her data! (14th Jan '23)
The 2022 Faculty Holiday Party! (10th Dec '22)
Packages are arriving and we have a BSC! (26th Oct '22)
The sloths made it to the wall! (6th Oct '22)
The tissue culture lab (1st Sep '22)
The main lab! (1st Sep '22)
First day! (1st Sep '22)