2025 CICMD Presentations

Congratulations to our lab members who presented!

Cormac Davis (Class of 2027) presenting his poster “Tracking Resident and Infiltrating Macrophage Populations in Coxsackievirus B3 Myocarditis Utilizing CX3CR1/GFP CCR2/RFP Dual Reporter Mice” at UF’s 2025 CICMD Symposium.
Jacob Ricci (MD/PhD student) presenting his poster “Expression of NLRP3 Inflammasome Components in Coxsackievirus B3 Myocarditis is Dependent on Sex Hormones and Sex Chromosomes” at UF’s 2025 CICMD Symposium.
Katherine Gegoutchadze (lab technician) presenting her poster “Vitamin D Binding Protein: Novel Innate Immune Therapeutic Target for Viral Myocarditis” at UF’s 2025 CICMD Symposium.
Ashley Darakjian (PhD student) presenting her poster “Adipose Derived Stem Cell Secretome Mitigates Viral Myocarditis” at UF’s 2025 CICMD Symposium. Ashley also was among three who won the poster competition, so congratulations!

While not present at the symposium, our undergraduate Priya Tomerlin (Class of 2026) also had a poster titled “Receptor Activity Post-Coxsackievirus B3 Infection During Acute Myocarditis.”