2025

  • August 8 – The Wong Lab has been awarded an R35 MIRA grant (R35GM160393) from NIGMS! We are honored to receive this support from the NIH and excited to advance our research into how diet influences immunometabolic responses during airway infections.

  • August 3-8 - Tania attends the 2025 Staphylococcal Diseases GRC in Barcelona, Spain and presents a poster.

  • August 1 - We are excited to share our publication on the role of fumarate metabolism during S. aureus pneumonia in Nature Communications!

    Chen, YT., Liu, Z., Fucich, D. […] and Wong, T. Regulation of airway fumarate by host and pathogen promotes Staphylococcus aureus pneumonia. Nat Commun 16, 7050 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-62453-y

  • July 14 & 28 - July 14th: We are thrilled to share that Eric has joined the lab as a PhD student after completing his rotation. Afia Nkansah has also joined as a co-mentored PhD student with Dr. Veronika Miskolci. We're excited to have them both on board! We also look forward to welcoming Jacob Santana, Master’s student (Med track), on July 28th!

  • June 9 - Tania presents at the virtual STAPH-2025 conference.

  • May 29-30 - Tania co-chairs the Rutgers i3D Symposium on immune and metabolic responses to pathogens and other insults, featuring both local and international speakers. The meeting is well attended with nearly 150 participants!

  • May 27 - Dr. Ariful Islam joins the lab as a Research Associate, bringing expertise in spatial metabolite imaging gained during his time in Dr. Mitsutoshi Setou’s lab at Hamamatsu University School of Medicine in Japan.

  • May 16-21 - Ridhima attends the American Thoracic Society Conference in San Francisco and presents a poster.

  • May 3-7 - Tania and Ridhima attend the Immunology 2025 conference (American Association of Immunologists, AAI) in Honolulu, Hawaii; Ridhima presents a poster and Tania gives a short talk

  • April 21 - Eric Tang joins us as a rotation PhD student.

  • April 12 - Tania presents at the European Society of
 Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (ESCMID) Global conference in Vienna, Austria.

  • April 3 - Tania presents at KlebClub 2025 (virtual conference).

  • February 4 - Tania presents at the Virtual Symposium on ESKAPE Pathogens.

2024

  • December 18 - Lab Holiday Party

  • November 21 - Dr. Wong attends the first Klebsiella Epidemiology and Biology Symposium at the Pasteur Institute in Paris, France (poster presentation).

  • October 22-24 - Dr. Wadhwa attends training provided by Sable Systems on the mouse metabolic cage system in Las Vegas.

  • October 15 - The DESI Synapt XS (Waters) spatial metabolite imaging system is now installed and the Wong team receives familiarization training.

  • September 23 - Dr. Ridhima Wadhwa (from UTS, Sydney) joins the lab as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow!

  • August 29 - Dr. Wong presents at the Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity in Melbourne, Australia.

  • August 28 - Dr. Wong presents at the Hudson Institute of Medical Research in Melbourne, Australia.

  • August 21 - Dr. Wong presents at the 19th International Symposium on Staphylococci and Staphylococcal infections in Perth, Australia.

  • August 2 - Dr. Wong is selected to co-chair the Institute for Infectious and Inflammatory Diseases Symposium 2025 with Dr. Jack Hsu.

  • April 15 - The Wong laboratory officially opens at Rutgers New Jersey Medical School!