Shelby wins 3rd place at UCLA Grad Slam

Shelby wins 3rd place at UCLA Grad Slam

Congratulations to Shelby Vexler for winning third place at the UCLA Grad Slam competition! Watch her award-winning presentation on antibacterial phage conjugates!    
Beto and Nick win research fellowships

Beto and Nick win research fellowships

Congratulations to Alberto for receiving a NASA Postdoctoral Program Fellowship! This two-year fellowship will support Beto’s work to understand ribozyme evolution during the origin of life. Congratulations also to Nick for receiving a Summer Mentored Research...
Shelby wins award for Best Graphical Abstract

Shelby wins award for Best Graphical Abstract

Congratulations to Shelby Vexler for receiving the Best Graphical Abstract award at the BioPACIFIC MIP retreat last month! We are grateful to this NSF MIP for their fellowship support of two of our graduate students, Shelby and Steven, and for fostering a great...
Thesis defense: Dr. Josh Kenchel

Thesis defense: Dr. Josh Kenchel

Congratulations to Dr. Josh Kenchel for a successful hybrid thesis defense on June 3, 2022! In a riveting presentation, Josh described nearly five years of work on ribozyme evolution, bringing new evolutionary concepts as well as analytical chemistry techniques to his...
Thesis defense: Dr. Yuning Shen

Thesis defense: Dr. Yuning Shen

Congratulations to Dr. Yuning Shen for successfully defending his thesis on February 24, 2022! In his work, Yuning merged our experimental methods with statistical and computational tools he learned, including from co-advisor Professor Ambuj Singh, Dept. of Computer...