Food for the lab!

May 25, 2026

Some food for the lab members! A few meal to keep the week moving: * Lemon quinoa salad with or without jerk chicken * Mexican chicken orzo bowl * Mushroom, spinach, and tomato rigatoni * Thai chicken curry with carrots, … Read more

Grace successfully defends her thesis

May 19, 2026

Congrats Grace Williamson on successful defense of your PhD thesis “Synthesis and evaluation of polymeric particle-based vaccine adjuvant formulations for innate immune activation”! šŸŽ‰

Ainslie Lab Substacks on Vaccines

May 11, 2026

Your immune system needs a delivery driver – https://ainslielab.substack.com/p/your-immune-system-needs-a-delivery?r=6f2o0o Tiny Packages, Big Impact: Why Scientists Are Shrinking Vaccines Down to Nano-Size – https://ainslielab.substack.com/p/tiny-packages-big-impact-why-scientists?r=6f2o0o A Field Guide to Adult Vaccines: Shingles, Flu, RSV, and Everything In Between – https://ainslielab.substack.com/p/a-field-guide-to-adult-vaccines-shingles?r=6f2o0o Not All … Read more

Congrats George on being awarded the Feng Liu Award

May 1, 2026

Congrats George Barbery for being awarded the Feng Liu Award for Excellence in recognition of your performance on the Qualifying Examination! The Feng Liu award celebrates the life and legacy of Dr. Feng Liu, whose humility, enthusiasm, compassion, and intelligence … Read more

New paper out on a Mn based gel as a vaccine adjuvant

May 1, 2026

Great job Luis Ontiveros-Padilla and Md Jahirul Islam, PhD on a co-first author publication “A Novel Manganese Glycerophosphate Vaccine Gel Elicits Broad and Durable Immunity Across an Aged and Pox Virus Model”

Ainslie Lab Substack post on Controlled Release

May 1, 2026

Why Some Drugs Work for 4 Hours – and Others for 4 Weeks: A plain-language guide to immediate vs. modified release medicines – https://go.unc.edu/SStControlledRelease The ā€œSlow-Releaseā€ Revolution: How Polymers and AI Are Changing Medicine – https://ainslielab.substack.com/p/the-slow-release-revolution-how-polymers?r=6f2o0o Your Lungs: A Built-In … Read more