News
2025-12-05
It isn’t often that I truly feel bittersweet emotions, but today is one of those days since it was Silvia’s last day before she’s off to Switzerland to embark on her PhD studies. I’m thrilled that she’s moving on to greener pastures and excited to see her career progress, but also sad to see her leave, of course, since she was a great addition to the lab. Who knew that there would be more emotionally challenging moments in this job than getting grant applications rejected. Good luck, Silvia, we wish you all the best!
2025-11-13
This week, my lab welcomed two additional Master students, bringing the tally of people up to five. It’s starting to feel like a real group now.
2025-10-04
Today I received not just one, but two rejection letters from the same foundation. I guess they wanted me to know that I reeeally didn’t get that grant.
2025-03-03
Kevin Memsuri joined the lab today as my first recruit. Lord save his soul.
2024-11-20
After several failed grant applications, I was awarded two project grants on the very same day. I’m off to celebrate because this will never happen again.
2024-09-01
My position as assistant professor at KI has officially begun. Even at this age I get butterflies for the first day of school.
2024-06-03
I gave a talk at the infection biology symposium at my alma mater. Thank you to Fredric Carlsson and Mattias Collin for the invitation and your hospitality.
2024-02-07
I was once again given the opportunity to brainwash young minds at Lund university. As some people might say, once is a fluke, twice is a trend and three times is tradition. So, I guess I’m here to stay. Thanks again to Fredric Carlsson.
2023-10-30
I was awarded a Starting Grant within Medicine and Health (etableringsbidrag inom medicin och hälsa) from the Swedish Research Council (vetenskapsrådet) to establish a laboratory at Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm next year. It’s an enormous privilege to have been given this opportunity and I am deeply grateful to all the people who have mentored me along the way, most notably Marcus Svensson-Frej, Katharina Lahl and Igor Brodsky. Thank you also to Susanne Nylén for supporting and welcoming me to the Department of Microbiology, Tumor and Cell Biology.
2023-05-05
I was honored to be invited to Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland along with Igor Brodsky to present my inflammasome-adjacent work at the Inflammasomes & gasdermin proteins as regulators of innate immunity symposium. Thanks to George Dubyak for the invitation and hospitality, as well as Kristine Basso for making all the logistics work.
2023-02-08
Amazingly, I was invited back to give another lecture for the advanced immunology course (BIOR88) at Lund university. Thank you Fredric Carlsson for your continued support.
2023-01-16
I had the pleasure of being invited to present my postdoctoral work at the department of microbiology, tumor and cell biology at Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm. Thank you Susanne Nylén, Lisa Westerberg and Ulf Ribacke for the warm welcome.
2022-07-19
In-person conferences are back in full force, and I had the honor of presenting my work on intestinal granulomas at the International Congress of Mucosal Immunology in Seattle.
2022-04-20
I was delighted to give my first lecture on parasites for the advanced immunology course (BIOR88) at Lund university. Thank you Fredric Carlsson for giving me the opportunity to indoctrinate a new generation of students.
2022-03-30
I had the honor of being invited to give a talk at the residence of the Swedish consulate general (Camilla Mellander) in New York on behalf of the Sweden-America Foundation. What better time than during a pandemic to discuss the importance of immunology? Thank you to Anna Rosvall Stuart for pulling all the strings and making it a successful event.
2021
The website is launched! But why? Well, as Johnny Bravo said: “Enough about me. Let’s talk about me. What do you think of me?”
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