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Bekah was selected to the inaugural class of JVI's New Voices in Virology and her minireview, Going Wild: prioritizing experimental models of rodent-borne viruses to decode zoonotic spillover and pandemic risk was published in May. Check out the associated webinar at the JVI website!

Jillian German graduated from CALS with her Biology degree. We wish her all the best as she enters dental school in Utah (but don't drink too many dirty sodas...). Her work with Bekah in the Botten lab was in developing assays to assess LCMV seropositivity in laboratory and wild rodents.

At home in the Department of Animal and Veterinary Sciences, we officially opened for business in January! Now time to clean, organize, and order some supplies!

In collaboration with Joseph Cook and Jon Dunnum at the Museum of Southwestern Biology and the University of New Mexico, Bekah joined her postdoc mentor Jason Botten and his postdoc Kanayo Ikeh in gaining additional skills on how to safely trap and sample from wild rodents.