Jan 5, 2022
Congratulations to Dr. Baoqing Zhou for a successful pandemic-style thesis defense! Setting up and analyzing a new microbial ecosystem in the lab made for a challenging but rewarding project. We wish her the best of luck on her future endeavors as she wraps up the...
Dec 31, 2021
Congratulations to Dr. Yei-Chen Lai, who will soon begin a new faculty position as an assistant professor in the Department of Chemistry of National Chung Hsing University in Taiwan! As a postdoctoral fellow, Dr. Lai made important contributions to our understanding...
Oct 18, 2021
Congratulations to Dr. Ray Borg for successfully defending his thesis on September 16, 2021! Ray described a collaboration with Prof. Arnab Mukherjee’s laboratory at UCSB, to develop phages for biomedical imaging. The defense was virtual but the spirit was real....
May 18, 2021
Congratulations to Dr. Evan Janzen for a well-deserved finish to his graduate studies! Five years of dedicated work spanning organic synthesis, RNA biochemistry, and bioinformatics was summarized in an excellent thesis defense. Dr. Janzen will be venturing across the...
Dec 24, 2020
When Huan Peng first cloned M13 chimeras by mix-and-match with other filamentous phages, in order to change the host targeted, we thought we’d probably need to do at least a little directed evolution to improve the folding or affinity of the new chimeras. That...
Dec 24, 2020
Congratulations to Dr. Claire Tran on successfully defending her thesis! We will miss her hard-won expertise in protein and RNA biochemistry as well as her carefully crafted ‘joke’ slides. Dr. Tran is heading to Boston to join i2o Therapeutics.
