Jun 16, 2022
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...
Apr 17, 2022
Congratulations to Dr. Huan Peng, who has just joined Huazhong University of Science and Technology in Wuhan, China! Dr. Peng is now an associate professor in the College of Life Science and Technology. As a postdoctoral fellow in our lab, Dr. Peng laid the foundation...
Mar 23, 2022
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...
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....