Congrats to postdoc Mahendar Kadari and graduate student Katelyn Sheneman for winning presentation awards at the fall conference in Nashville!

Postdoc Mahendar Kadari and graduate students Katelyn Sheneman, Taylor Garrison, Subarna Roy, and Belayet Hasan Limon presented data at the University of Louisville’s annual showcase of trainee research.

Postdoc Mahendar Kadari and graduate students Taylor Garrison and Subarna Roy presented their data at this year’s Midwest Microbial Pathogenesis Conference in St. Charles, IL.

Members of the Lawrenz Lab participated in Mighty Microbes, an educational outreach event at the Kentucky Science Center.

Matt will serve as an American Society for Microbiology Distinguished Lecturer for the 2025-2027 program.

(Image is an AI-generated portrait of Matt as a distinguished lecturer)

Undergraduate student Khushi Pola completed a Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship in the Lawrenz Lab and presented her data.

Graduate student Katelyn Sheneman attended the 2025 Gordon Research Conference on Phagocytes.

BIOMED-PREP Scholar Briana Harness wrapped up her mentored research project in the lab.

Thank you to everyone in the lab for creating this incredible birthday display!

Graduate students Taylor Garrison and Katelyn Sheneman were recognized at the 2025 Graduate School Dean’s Reception.

Graduate student Katelyn Sheneman’s paper marks the lab’s foray into the EV world and provides further evidence that Y. pestis manipulates the immune system during infection.

Postdoc Mahendar Kadari, graduate students Subarna Roy and Katelyn Sheneman, and PREP Scholar Briana Harness presented data at the 2025 Spring Conference in Louisville.

2025 marks a major milestone for the Lawrenz Lab — 15 years!

The Lawrenz Lab celebrated Leo Mora Martinez, Briana Harness, and Eman H. as they embark on the next steps of their educational journeys at the University of Louisville.

Matt was inducted into the Academy in recognition of his outstanding contributions to microbiology.

Postdoc Mahendar Kadari and graduate student Subarna Roy presented their research at the 2025 Mid-Atlantic Microbial Pathogenesis Meeting.

Our latest paper shares genome sequences of evolutionary distant Yersinia species.

Matt was selected as a finalist for a Faculty Excellence Award from the University of Louisville.

BIOMED PREP Scholar Briana Harness presented a poster at ABRCMS 2024 (Annual Biomedical Research Conference for Minoritized Scientists) in Pittsburgh.

Our latest paper describes key differences in how neutrophils and macrophages recognize and respond to the Y. pestis type 3 secretion system.