2025
April 2025: CONGRATS Amr Waly, PhD!
April 21, 2025: Amr Waly successfully defended his doctoral thesis entitled, Investigating the Role of CRYβB2 In Triple-Negative Breast Cancer: Mechanisms of Invasion and Implications for Racial Disparities
March 2025: NCCU GURS Symposium
Jayden Waites, Jibran Polani and Fatima Smith represented the Costantini Lab at the 2025 NCCU Graduate and Undergraduate Research Symposium.
January 2025
Jenny’s article published in Viruses!
Amr’s article published in BMC Research Notes!
2024
November 2024: ABRCMS, Pittsburg, PA
Jibran Polani and Jaleah’ Spruill represented the Costantini Lab at the 2024 ABRCMS in Pittsburg, PA presenting their research at the undergraduate poster symposium.
October 2024: Jenny’s review article published in Journal of Medical Virology!
July 2024: IHW Portland, OR and FIRST Doctoral Defense
Costantini Lab travels to Portland to attend 2024 International Herpesvirus Workshop
Jenny, Megan, Terrin and Lindsey traveled to Oregon for IHW to present.
Sightseeing around Portland Air Tram, Japanese Garden and Hopscotch
CONGRATS Jennifer Kneas Travis, PhD!
July 9, 2024: Jenny Kneas Travis successfully defended her doctoral thesis entitled, Molecular Characterization of the Processivity Factor for Kaposi’s Sarcoma Herpesvirus
April 2024: NCCU GURS Symposium
Jenny Kneas Travis, London Harper, Yazmine Arthur, Salma Youssef and Jibran Polani represented the Costantini Lab at the 2024 NCCU Graduate and Undergraduate Research Symposium.
Congrats to Jenny and London! They received awards for their oral presentations.
March 2024: NIH SuRE Grant Awarded!
2nd NIH funded grant awarded for the laboratory
2023
November 2023: Conferences
Terrin Farris and London Harper represented the Costantini Lab at the 2023 ABRCMS Meeting in Phoenix, AZ.
Terrin Farris, Jenny Kneas and Megan Martin represented the Costantini Lab at the 2023 NC-American Society for Microbiology Meeting.
2023 NC-ASM at Duke University, Durham, NC
October 2023: EHS Safety awards
Megan Martin awarded Commitment to Biosafety Award and Terrin Farris’s virus model constructed with lab items was chosen as Best BioModel.
September 2023: Jayla’s first author paper published in Journal of Virology!
May 2023: Spring Graduation Congrats Cynthia!
Cynthia graduated with her Master’s degree in Biological and Biomedical Sciences.
April 2023: Welcome Terrin!
Terrin Farris joins the Costantini lab!
March 2023: Congrats to Lauren!
Lauren is starting graduate school in the fall at the University of Alabama, Birmingham.
March 2023: Congrats to Jessilin!
Jessilin is starting graduate school in the fall at Albert Einstein College of Medicine.
2022
December 2022: Winter 2022 Undergraduate Graduation!
Jessilin and Lauren graduated with their BS degrees from NCCU Biological and Biomedical Department!
November 2022: Costantini lab at ABRCMS, Anaheim, CA
Jessilin, Lauren and Lindsey traveled to California for ABRCMS. Jessilin and Lauren presented posters. Congrats Jessilin for poster presentation award!
Jessilin receiving poster presentation award.
October 2022: Congrats Cynthia!
Cynthia Obilor successfully completed her PhD Qualifying Exam!
July 2022: Undergraduate Symposium Presentations
Ariana Duval as a GCB Duke Summer Scholars presented at Duke’s summer undergraduate symposium.
Jessilin Collins as a HBCU-bridge Summer Research Opportunity Program (SROP) presented her summer research at the UNC-CH’s undergraduate symposium.
March 2022: NCCU GURS Symposium
Amr Waly, Cynthia Obilor and Jessilin Collins represented the Costantini Lab at the 2022 NCCU Graduate and Undergraduate Research Symposium.
Congrats to Amr and Cynthia! Amr was awarded 1st place and Cynthia won 2nd for their oral presentations.
2021
December 2021: Congrats Ernest!
Ernest Canty successfully completed his MS in Biological and Biomedical Science.
November 2021: PhD student joins the lab
Jenny Kneas Travis joined the lab to complete her PhD research!
June 2021: Welcome Megan!
Megan Martin joined the Costantini lab!
January 2021: Congrats Cynthia!
Cynthia accepted into NCCU INBS PhD program! Cynthia will complete her PhD research in the Costantini lab.
2020
November 2020: Congrats Jayla!
Graduate student successfully defends her Master’s thesis
October 2020: MS student declare Costantini Lab!
Cynthia Obilor joined the lab to conduct her Master’s thesis research!
August 2020: Graduate student declare Costantini Lab
Ernest Canty join the lab to conduct his research!
June 2020: Congrats Lizzie!
1st graduate student successfully defends her Master’s thesis
April 2020: NIH SCORE (SC2) Grant Awarded!
1st NIH funded grant awarded for the laboratory
2019
July 2019: UNC Summer Undergraduate Research Symposium
Poster presentation, “The effects of ethanol and acetate on KSHV reactivation” John W. Leland, Elizabeth Goins, Lindsey M. Costantini
June 2019: Electron microscope arrives at NCCU from UNC-CH!
May 2019: NCCU Undergraduate Graduation
Jordyn Montague graduated with her Bachelor’s of Science degree.
2018
December 2018: Masters student declare Costantini Lab
Jayla Calhoun and Elizabeth Goins join the lab to conduct their Master’s thesis research!
The Costantini Lab 