On October 20th, 2025, Bridget successfully defended her thesis work and became a PhD!
New PhD Candidates in the lab!
Jessica and Anjelica have passed their comprehensive exams, making them PhD Candidates!
T32 Award
Brandon was awarded the Immunology T32 training grant! Congrats Brandon!
July 24, 2024
Catherine Nicholas won first place for her talk at the CSU Translational Research Symposium and a $1000 prize!
September 6,2024
Catherine Nicholas is a Doctor! She successfully defended her thesis today!! Congratulations!!!
August 28, 2024
Together with the Getahun lab, the Smith lab won best costume party at the Colorado Immunology and Microbiology conference in Breckenridge, CO for their “(Wo)Men in Black” costume from the 1990’s!
August 1, 2024
The Smith lab is a Co-investigator on a new NIH R01 award to study B cell clonal expansion as a marker of disease in stage 1 T1D!
July 2024
Our two technicians in the lab, Spencer Evans and Kevin Toole, are both off to medical school! Congratulations and you will be missed!
June 25, 2024
Check out our recent paper on bioRxiv that found that islet-reactive B cells from Stage 1, 2, and 3 T1D donors are enriched in polyreactivity and have a unique gene expression profile and BCR repertoire compared to high-risk first-degree relatives!
June 1 2024
The Smith Lab was awarded a new NIH RO3 award to study the role of Ptpn2 in B cells in the NOD mouse!