Lab News
2026
April
Congrats to Emily Ivey for successfully defending her thesis: “Elucidating the antiviral role of LGALS3BP/90K against SARS-CoV-2”. A very mechanistic study that elucidates in detail the role of this host gene during SARS-CoV-2 infection. We are all excited to see where the next step of your career takes you!
Mary D’Angelo was awarded the Eugene Gorzynski Travel Award by the Department! Congrats Mary!!
April was a great month for the lab. On 4/1 (April Fool’s Day) Kyle Salka received the NOA for his F31 predoctoral fellowship! Congrats Kyle!!
May
Mary D’Angelo was selected for a talk at the annual Cold Spring Harbor Retroviruses meeting at Cold Spring Harbor, NY. What a great honor to present your work there! Congrats!
Kyle Salka was selected for an oral presentation at the 36th Annual Buffalo Conference on Microbial Pathogenesis organized by the Witebsky Center for Microbial Pathogenesis and Immunology. Congrats for getting the opportunity to present your work!
Kyle Salka did such a great job at presenting his at the 36th Annual Buffalo Conference on Microbial Pathogenesis that he won first place for the Erwin Neter Award for best presentation by a predoctoral student. Such a great honor! Congrats Kyle!
June
Eric Mendelson, and Anthony Sanchez were each awarded a Mark Diamond Research Foundation Grant from the UB graduate student association.
2025
February
Congrats to Brandon Waxman, the lab’s first graduate student, for successfully defending his thesis: ““Heparanase, a host gene that potently restricts retrovirus transcription”. All the years of hard work paid off!! Off to new adventures as a postdoc now in Philadelphia!
Congrats again to Brandon for publishing his thesis in mBio. Beautiful work! Go check it out in the journal’s website!
April
The lab to relax, recharge and have some fun went to Letchworth State Park for some hiking, laughter and fun!!
Kyle was awarded the Eugene Gorzynski Travel Award by the Department!! Congrats Kyle!
Mary D’Angelo was awarded a SUNY GREAT Award in recognition of her work.
July
July was a great month for the lab! We got, not one, but two NOAs for 2 R21s on HIV-1 and SARS-CoV-2! We are so excited to start this really interesting work on these two very different viruses.
The good news kept on coming this month. Mary D’Angelo, Emily Ivey and Kyle Salka were all selected for oral presentations at the annual American Society of Virology meeting at Montréal, Quebec, Canada. They did a stellar job presenting their findings at the meeting.
October
Mary D’Angelo was awarded the Best Poster Award at the 34th International Workshop on Retroviral Pathogenesis (RetroPATH 2025). Congrats Mary!!!
December
Parul Pandey joined the lab as a postdoctoral scientist. Welcome to the lab Parul!
2024
December
Congrats to the newly minted Ph.D. candidate Eric Mendelson on a completed preliminary exam proposal!
October
To wrap up conferences for the year, Emily Ivey presented her poster at the Keystone Positive Strand RNA viruses meeting in Killarney Ireland.
July
Dr. Stavrou was officially promoted to Associate Professor with tenure!
July was a great month for us, Ph.D. candidate Mary D’Angelo received an NOA for her F31 predoctoral fellowship. Congrats Mary!!
The lab welcomed our two newest Ph.D. students, Anthony Sanchez and Eric Mendelson.
Our most recent paper was accepted for publication, more info is under our publications tab. Really great work on MARCH2 spearheaded by our incredible postdocs.
June
The lab takes Columbus - Postdoc, Uddhav Timilsina and Ph.D. candidate Emily Ivey both gave talks at ASV 2024.
Brandon Waxman received a Mark Diamond Research Foundation Grant from the University at Buffalo Graduate Student Association for the second time!
May
As the summer begins so does conference season, we kept it local to start with the Witebesky Conference for Microbial Pathogenesis here at UB, such a fun event every year.
Our conferences continued at the Cold Spring Harbor Retroviruses Meeting where our Ph.D. candidate Brandon Waxman presented his poster.
Mary D’Angelo has been having a great year, she received the Olga Lindberg Scholarship from the American Association of University Women.
March
Three is a magic number! Emily Ivey, Mary D’Angelo, and Kyle Salka were each awarded a Mark Diamond Research Foundation Grant from the UB graduate student association.
February
Another paper hot off the press, the product of a great collaboration is officially out. Go check out our work on some SARS-CoV-2 Orf7a mutations.
2023
June
ASV is always such a great meeting, Ph.D. candidate Brandon Waxman presented some great work this year in Atlanta.
May
The Witebsky Conference on Microbial Pathogenesis is always one of our favorite events of the year. This year, in addition to some beautiful posters from most of the lab, our Ph.D. candidate Emily Ivey was selected as a finalist for the Erwin Neter award, which she eventually earned after a great talk. As a cherry on top Brandon Waxman was presented the Gorzynski Travel Award to support his conference attendance over the past year.
Another Cold Spring Harbor is in the books, Uddhav, Brandon, and Spiros had a wonderful Retrovirus filled week.
April
Two impeccably executed qualifying exams are done meaning that Kyle Salka and Mary D’Angelo can officially call themselves Ph.D. candidates!
2022
June
Our first in-person ASV! Uddhav Timilsina, Emily Ivey, and Brandon Waxman all shared their work at ASV 2022 during a great week in Madison Wisconsin.
May
After a massive amount of work spearheaded by Uddhav Timilsina, our paper on SARS-CoV-2 Orf7a and SERINC5 is officially published in Nature Communications!
In a change of pace for Uddhav, he talked about one of our MARCH projects this year at Cold Spring Harbor Retrovirology.
January
Our first fellowship in the lab! Ph.D. candidate Emily Ivey was awarded the American Heart Association predoctoral fellowship to support her work on SARS-CoV-2 and restriction factors.
2021
November
Funding alert! We are thrilled to have been awarded our first R01 as a lab and excited to put the funding to good use parsing out the MARCH mediated restriction.
June
Thank goodness for Zoom, Uddhav Timilsina gave a great talk at virtual ASV this year on his SERINC5 project.
April
Our first two Ph.D. students completed their preliminary exams! Congrats to Brandon and Emily.
March
It was meant to be, our paper on MARCH proteins was officially published on March 2nd.
2020
July
Paper number one is hot off the press. Our first paper as a lab was published in mBio with beautiful work spearheaded by Uddhav Timilsina.
2018
And we’re off! The Stavrou lab is officially open at UB Jacobs School of Medicine. We are excited to get set up and get to work.