2025
2025-12-15 The lab participates in the Great LVD bake-off event. The lab swept the top two prizes-Antonio won first place, and Callie took second. Together, they carried on the lab’s legacy.
2025-07-14 to 2025-07-18 The lab had a great showing at ASV 2025! Tijana gave a State-of-the-Art talk, Anna and Callie delivered talks, and the rest of the team shared their work through posters at the meeting.
2025-06-27 Ava/Anna goodbye pool party hosted by Tijana. We will miss you!
2025-05-28 Bali presents her first LVD seminar, “Exploring the effects of Matrix Protein 1 (M1) on influenza virion shape”.
2025-05-14 Tony presents his first LVD seminar, “Is influenza virus a haploid entity?”.
2025-04-23 Ava presents her second LVD seminar, “Single virion detection of mammalian orthoreovirus assembly mechanisms”.
2025-04-09 Callie presents her first LVD seminar, “Design of a shape-based viral entry screen for host-pathogen interactions”.
2025-03-26 Antonio presents his first LVD seminar, “Extracellular mechanical cues direct changes in influenza A virus assembly”.
2025-03-19 Anna presents her second LVD seminar, “Antibody-induced crosslinking and depletion of viral antigens promotes assembly of influenza A filaments”.
2025-02-25 Tijana gives an invited talk at the VRC, “Shape shifting and other strategies: viral tunable responses to host pressures”.
2025-02-10 The second shape paper is published in Nature Microbiology. Congrats Ed, Anna, Steven, and Nick!
2025-01-24 Anna is accepted into the Molecular Microbiology and Microbial Pathogenesis Ph.D. program at Washington University in St. Louis. Congratulations Anna!
2025-01-22 Steven presents his second LVD seminar, “Influenza A virus protein-receptor interactions during membrane fusion”.
2025-01-11 The lab has our annual Serbian New Year Party and celebrates the acceptance of Ed’s shape paper for publication in Nature Microbiology!
2025-01-10 Steven leads an Endo/Exo/Fusion/Fission journal club meeting on endosomal calcium. Good job Steven!
2024
2024-12-16 The lab participates in the LVD Holiday Social and Cookie Bake off, and Steven’s Minty Oreo Cheesecake Cookies win first place! Congratulations Steven!
2024-12-04 Nick presents his second LVD seminar, “Uncovering, understanding, and exploiting influenza virus aggregation”.
2024-10-15 Nick is awarded the Best BCBP/MSM Graduate Student Talk Award for the second time. Congratulations Nick!
2024-10-02 Ed presents his second LVD seminar, “Mechanism of templated assembly of the mammalian orthoreovirus capsid”.
2024-09-23 Tijana gives a talk, “Phenotypic Diversity in Viral Evolution,” at the Symposium of the NIH Distinguished Scholars Program in the 2024 NIH Research Festival.
2024-09-06 Ed and Anna give talks at the Respiratory Viruses Interest Group Seminar Series. Good job Ed and Anna!
2024-08-30 Annual pool party and first lab retreat!
2024-08-05 Bali joins the lab. Welcome Bali!
2024-07-29 Tony joins the lab. Welcome Tony!
2024-06-24 to 2024-06-28 Ed, Steven, Nick, Ava, and Anna attend and give talks at the 43rd Annual Meeting of the American Society for Virology. Congratulations everyone!
2024-06-17 Callie joins the lab. Welcome Callie!
2024-05-29 Anna receives an Outstanding Poster Award for Postbac Poster Day. Congratulations Anna!
2024-05-06 Antonio joins the lab. Welcome Antonio!
2024-05-02 Ava and Anna present posters at the 2024 NIH Postbaccalaureate Poster Day. Good job Anna and Ava!
2024-04-30 Steven presents a poster at the Membrane and Organelle Dynamics Interest Group Symposium. Good job Steven!
2024-04-25 Lab lunch!
2024-04-24 Ava presents her first LVD seminar, “Single-Virion Detection of Mammalian Orthoreovirus”.
2024-04-10 Anna presents her first LVD seminar, “Exploring the mechanisms of antibody-induced tuning of influenza A virion shape”.
2024-03-05 Nick is awarded the Best BCBP/MSM Graduate Student Talk Award for his presentation on his C1Q aggregation work. Congratulations Nick!
2024-02-11 to 2024-02-14 The lab attends the 2024 Annual Meeting of the Biophysical Society in Philadelphia, PA. Ed and Steven give talks and Nick, Ava, and Anna present posters. Congratulations everyone!
2024-01-20 The lab holds our annual Serbian New Year celebration!
2023
2023-12-14 The entire lab participates in the annual LVD Bake Off and Winter Social. Ed’s thumbprint cookies make it to the judge’s table!
2023-12-13 Steven presents his first LVD seminar, “Dissecting the Functional Interplay Between Receptor Binding and Membrane Fusion of Single Influenza A Virions”.
2023-12-06 Nick presents his first LVD seminar, “A TIRFm system for evaluating antiviral potential of DNA origami”.
2023-10-04 Ed presents his first LVD seminar, “Dynamic regulation of influenza A virion assembly in response to antibody pressure”.
2023-08-18 The lab holds our annual pool party!
2023-08-13 The lab goes out to brunch to welcome new members.
2023-08-07 Ava and Anna join the lab at the NIH as postbaccalaureate fellows. Welcome Ava and Anna!
2023-06-24 to 2023-06-28 Ed, Steven, and Nick attend the 42nd Annual Meeting of the American Society of Virology in Athens, GA. Steven and Nick give talks and Ed presents a poster. Congratulations Steven, Nick, and Ed!
2023-05-23 First lab lunch at the NIH!
2023-05-21 Shivani graduates with a Bachelor of Science in Biology and Neuroscience and Anna graduates with a Bachelor of Science in Biochemistry and Biology. Congratulations Shivani and Anna!
2023-05-10 The lab moves to the NIH!
2023-05-05 Anna receives the William P. Jencks Award in Biochemistry and the Division of Science Prize for Outstanding Research Accomplishment by a Senior for her senior honors thesis. Congratulations Anna!
2023-05-04 Shivani and Anna present posters at the Brandeis 2023 Undergraduate Research and Creative Collaborations Symposium. Good job Shivani and Anna!
2023-05-01 Shivani defends her undergraduate thesis, wins high Honors in Biology for her research in the Ivanovic lab. Congratulations Shivani!
2023-04-28 Anna defends her undergraduate thesis, wins highest Honors in Biochemistry for her research in the Ivanovic lab. Congratulations Anna!
2023-04-19 Tijana gives an invited talk, “Dynamic shape-shifting in viral adaptation“, at the University of Pittsburgh, School of Medicine.
2023-04-05 Tijana gives an invited talk at the Beckman Coulter Boston Symposium 2023, Drive Flow Forward, in which she describes our novel method for measuring virus particle shape using flow virometry.
2023-03-19 to 2023-03-21 Ed presents his poster, “Dynamic regulation of influenza A virion assembly in response to antibody pressure”, at the Cell Symposium: Viruses in Health and Disease in Sitges, Spain. Congratulations Ed!
2023-03-02 Shivani is accepted into the Biology Ph.D. program at Texas A&M University. Congratulations Shivani!
2023-01-26 Ed presents his talk, “Dynamic regulation of influenza A virion assembly in response to antibody pressure”, at the Physical Virology Gordon Research Conference in Tuscany, Italy. Congratulations Ed!
2023-01-15 The lab reunites with alumni to celebrate Serbian New Year!
2022
2022-08-11 Shivani, Anna, and Carol present posters at the Brandeis SciFest XI. Good job Shivani, Anna, and Carol!
2022-08-01 Ed joins the lab to study reovirus. Welcome Ed!
2022-07-12 The Arbidol paper is published online as an Editor’s Choice article. Congratulations Zhenyu!
2022-07-09 The lab wishes Zhenyu farewell and welcomes Ed with a pool party!
2022-06-27 Zhenyu gives a talk and presents his poster, “Hemagglutinin stability determines influenza A virus susceptibility to a broad-spectrum fusion inhibitor Arbidol”, at the Gordon Research Conference on Drug Resistance. Good job Zhenyu!
2022-06-16 Zhenyu’s Arbidol paper is accepted for publication by ACS Infectious Diseases. Great work Zhenyu! We look forward to seeing it online soon!
2022-05-22 Mengyang graduates with a Bachelor of Science in Biochemistry and Biology and Zhenyu walks for his belated 2020 graduation ceremony. Congratulations Mengyang and Zhenyu!
2022-05-13 The lab wishes Mengyang farewell and celebrates member’s successes with an ice-cream outing!
2022-05-10 Shivani receives a Jerome A. Schiff Undergraduate Research Fellowship to support her research on “Identification of Cellular Proteins Involved in Macropinocytosis”. Congratulations Shivani!
2022-05-05 Mengyang receives the Professor Dagmar Ringe Biochemistry Award for her senior honors thesis. Congratulations Mengyang!
2022-04-29 Mengyang defends her undergraduate thesis, wins high Honors in Biochemistry for her research in the Ivanovic lab. Great job Mengyang!
2022-04-15 Mengyang is accepted into the BCMB Allied program at Weill Cornell Graduate School of Medical Sciences. Congratulations Mengyang!
2022-03-25 The lab celebrates members’ recent successes with a bowling outing!
2022-03-11 Steven and Tijana travel to the Dickinson laboratory at the University of Texas at Austin to learn about their single-cell, single-molecule pulldown method. Steven presents his work on Ebolavirus to the Dickinson lab.
2022-03-09 Tijana gives an invited talk at the University of Texas at Austin.
2022-03-09 Anna receives a MRSEC Summer Materials Undergraduate Research Fellowship to support her research on “Investigating the effect of interactions between influenza A virus nucleoprotein and matrix protein on virion morphology”. Congratulations Anna!
2022-03-01 Tijana gives an invited talk at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.
2022-02-15 Nick is accepted into the Biochemistry and Biophysics Ph.D. program at Brandeis University. Congratulations Nick!
2022-01-31 Zhenyu is accepted into the Virology Ph.D. program at Harvard University. Congratulations Zhenyu!
2022-01-12 The Arbidol paper is released on bioRxiv. Congratulations Zhenyu!
2021
2021-11-16 Tijana receives a Mathers Foundation grant. Congratulations Tijana!
2021-11-04 Zhenyu presents poster “Mechanisms of resistance to the small-molecule antiviral Arbidol” at the Tenth Annual Boston Symposium on Organic and Bioorganic Chemistry (BSOBC). Good job Zhenyu!
2021-09-01 Nick and Carol join the lab. Welcome Nick and Carol!
2021-08-05 Mengyang and Rebecca present posters at the Brandeis SciFest X. Good job Mengyang and Rebecca!
2021-07-01 Uddipan and Anna join the lab. Welcome Uddipan and Anna!
2021-05-06 Miranda defends her undergraduate thesis, wins highest Honors for her research in the Ivanovic lab. Congratulations Miranda!
2021-05-05 BrandeisNOW article “How we might banish the flu forever” describes the Ivanovic lab’s research on filamentous flu particles
2021-05-03 Miranda receives the Professor Dagmar Ringe Biochemistry Award. Congratulations Miranda! This award is given to a female Biochemistry senior who has an excellent record of undergraduate research and has been accepted into a PhD or MD/PhD program for the next year in some field of the biological or biochemical sciences.
2021-05-01 Mengyang wins the Blavatnik Summer Science Research Fellowship for summer of 2021. Congratulations Mengyang!
2021-04-29 Nature Microbiology News and Views article “Filamentous viruses prevail under pressure” summarizes the lab’s recently published filaments paper
2021-03-20 The filaments paper is published in Nature Microbiology!
2021-03-09 Rebecca receives a 2021 MRSEC Summer Materials Undergraduate Research Fellowship. Congratulations Rebecca!
2021-02-23 Tijana gives a talk at the 2021 Future of Biophysics Burroughs Wellcome Fund Symposium
2021-01-15 Melissa and Shivani join the lab. Welcome Melissa and Shivani!
2020
2020-08-11 Jonah and Steven join the lab. Welcome Jonah and Steven!
2020-07-08 Photonics Online article “Understanding Virus Mechanisms – One Particle At A Time” describes the Ivanovic lab’s use of TIRF to study membrane fusion and membrane penetration of individual virus particles
2020-06-28 Mengyang joins the lab. Welcome Mengyang!
2020-06-16 Brandeis Magazine article “Scientists Shift Their Focus to Join the Coronavirus Fight” describes the Ivanovic lab’s use of TIRF microscopy
2020-06-12 The Ivanovic lab is listed in Brandeis Alumni article “In a Time of Darkness, They Are Brandeis’ Brightest Lights”
2020-05-05 Zhenyu is awarded the Nathan O. Kaplan Prize in Biochemistry. Congratulations Zhenyu! The Kaplan award is given out each year to an outstanding undergraduate research student, in honor of Nathan O. Kaplan, a Brandeis Biochemistry professor from 1957-1967.
2020-04-29 Rebecca joins the lab virtually. Welcome Rebecca!
2020-04-09 BrandeisNow article “Brandeis researchers tackle COVID-19” describes research from the Ivanovic lab on COVID-19
2019
2019-11-14 The lab celebrates the filaments paper submission on bioRxiv. Congratulations Tian on your careful dissection of a flu’s unanticipated evolvability strategy! Congratulations Zhenyu, Meisui, and Erin!
2019-08-25 The first annual lab pool and barbecue party was a success!
2019-08-08 Zhenyu and Miranda present posters at the Brandeis SciFest IX. Good job Zhenyu and Miranda!
2019-06-21 The Ivanovic lab welcomes the newest member. Welcome to this world, Vanessa!
2019-04-05 Zhenyu wins a Provost’s URF grant for his research project in the lab. Congratulations Zhenyu!
2019-03-04 Miranda wins a MRSEC Summer Materials Undergraduate Research Fellowship to support her research in the lab on “Uncovering the Mechanism of Reovirus Uncoating by Molecular Chaperone Hsc70”. Congratulations Miranda!
2018
2018-08-11 The Ivanovic lab welcomes the newest member. Welcome to this world, Nikola!
2018-08-02 Dhruv, Miranda, and Devon present posters at the Brandeis ScieFest VIII. Good job Dhruv, Miranda, and Devon!
2018-04-30 Meisui defends her undergraduate thesis, wins highest Honors for her research in the Ivanovic lab. Congratulations Meisui! We are so proud of your successes! Have fun at the Harvard Medical School! We will miss you at the lab!
2018-06-01 Miranda and Erin join the lab. Welcome Miranda and Erin!
2018-02-28 Brandeis Magazine article “Novel Vaccine Research Is a Shot in the Arm” describes the Ivanovic’s use of TIRF microscopy to study viruses
2018-02-20 Zhenyu joins the lab. Welcome Zhenyu!
2017
2017-10-05 BrandeisNow article “The fight against flu” describes the focus of the Ivanovic lab’s research
2017-10-05 NIH Director’s high-risk research awards announced. Tijana wins a 2017 NIH Director’s New Innovator Award (NIH Common Fund DP2). Congratulations Tijana!
2017-09-21 Lab lunch
2017-08-03 Meisui and Eli present posters at the Brandeis SciFest VII. Good job Meisui and Eli!
2017-06-01 Tian joins the lab. Welcome Tian!
2017-05-30 Elias starts QBREC Summer Research Project. Welcome Eli!
2017-04-26 Tijana and Ben Rogers win a Provost’s Research Award
2017-03-20 Meisui wins a 2017 MRSEC Summer Materials Undergraduate Research Fellowship. Congratulations Meisui!
2017-02-24 Amal Rahmeh visits the lab and gives a talk for the Biochemistry and Biophysics Seminar Series
2016
2016-09-01 Meisui joins the lab. Welcome Meisui!
2016-01-01 The first day of the Ivanovic lab!
2015
2015-11-01 Tijana wins an NSF Brandeis BioInspired Soft Materials MRSEC Seed grant. Congratulations Tijana!
Single Virion Biology and Biophysics Unit 