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April, 2025

Sophia UCSF Grad Slam, 1st Place & People's Choice Award!!

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March, 2025

CROI, San Francisco

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presentation at CROI

January, 2025

Gladstone Awards Ceremony

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December, 2024

Roan Lab Holiday Party

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December, 2024

Happy Holidays!

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September, 2024

Postdoc Slam - Congrats, Alicer!

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podtdoc slam 2024

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September, 2024:

Gladstone Retreat, Asilomar

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July, 2024:

Great talk, Jason! IAS 2024

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June, 2024: 

Good luck in grad school, Kyrlia! 

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June, 2024: 

Roan Lab Chefs:

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June, 2024: 

Congrats, Sophia, on passing the Quals!

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April, 2024: 

Great job Marta & Francoise, wonderful performance with the SF Choral Society! 

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March, 2024: 

CROI 2024

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February, 2024: 

Cover of Nature Immunology!

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January, 2024:

Boba Welcoming for rotation student Sangeetha

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December, 2023: 

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December, 2023:

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October, 2023:

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October, 2023:

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August, 2023:

Green party for Xiaoyu!

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August, 2023:

Congrats to Kailin and Tongcui for excellent talks at the Keystone Long Covid meeting in Sante Fe, NM

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August, 2023:

(Lack of) escape from a room

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July, 2023:

Congrats to Tongcui & Ashley for great presentations at IAS 2023 in Brisbane, Australia

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April, 2023:

Pottery for Roan Lab

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February, 2023:

CROI dinner, Seattle

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December, 2022:

End-of-year sushi lunch

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September, 2022: 

Scavenger hunt at Gladstone retreat, Asilomar

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July, 2022:

Our latest study, on sugars & HIV, wonderful collaboration with the lab of Dr. Mohamed Abdel-Mohsen:

https://gladstone.org/news/finding-hivs-sweet-spot

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April, 2022: 

Goodbye and good luck, Matthew!

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August, 2021:

The latest on the Delta Variant by UCSF and Gladstone

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March, 2021:

Picnic time, with home-made cinnamon rolls and French lemon cake by Chef Matthew & Chef Julie :9

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January, 2021:

Our latest study on SARS-CoV-2-specific T cell responses posted on medRxiv: https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.01.22.21250054v1

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August, 2020:

Our lab is in the SF Chronicle

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COVID-19 CyTOF T cell study published

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June, 2020

CHIRP team photo

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May, 2020:

Two more HIV studies out: on semen exosomes & HIV, and HIV infection of female reproductive tract + commentary

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April, 2020:

Welcome to the lab, Matthew McGregor! Hope shelter at home ends soon so you can physically join the lab.

And congrats to Feng, Julie, et al on the CD127 paper

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March, 2020: Congrats Ashley and team for acceptance of manuscript in Human Reproduction

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July, 2019: Second R01 for the lab has come through! This one focuses on HIV latency. 

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April, 2019: Postdoctoral Fellow Julie Frouard starts in the lab. Welcome!

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February, 2019: Lab has received a P50 pilot grant on characterizing interactions between seminal plasma and endometrium

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August, 2018: Collaborative pDC study with University of Aarhus now online!

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June, 2018: Two manuscripts, a semen amyloid review and a primary research study on Zika virus, have just been with our collaborators at Ulm University, Germany.

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March, 2018: The NIH Director's Blog has featured the lab's recent study characterizing HIV-infected cells in lymphoid tissues.

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February, 2018: The lab is featured in an article in the San Francisco Business Times.

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January, 2018: Congrats to Johanne Egedal in the lab for receiving the Keystone Symposia Future of Science Fund scholarship to present an oral talk at the HIV and Co-Infections: Pathogenesis, Inflammation and Persistence Keystone meeting!

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August, 2017: NIH P01 grant in collaboration with lab of Dr. Warner Greene to study identify biomarkers of HIV latency has just been awarded!

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Summer, 2017: Roan lab publishes in Cell Reports a “cellular atlas” of HIV-infected cells by using mass cytometry to characterize HIV infection and remodeling of CD4+ T cells.
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Summer, 2017: Roan lab research just published in Elife finds proteins linked to HIV transmission could actually be beneficial for reproduction.
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Winter, 2016: Roan Lab’s recent paper published in PLOS Pathogens demonstrated that one of the most abundant cells of mucosal tissues, stromal fibroblasts, potently increase the efficiency by which HIV infects their primary targets: helper T cells.
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Fall, 2016: We are excited to have received notice of award for NIH grant R01 "Elucidating the mechanism of progesterone-induced permissivity in the upper female reproductive tract"!