Lab Highlights

2012

• Dr. Georgiou and team receive $6.5 million for Vaccine Research
• Congratulations to Undergrad Researchers Rachel Yan and Nishu Mehta who have each been awarded a prestigious University Undergraduate Research Fellowship!
• Congratulations to Postdoc Mark Pogson and his wife Kelly on the birth of their son in October 2012.
• Congratulations to Admin. Associate Lizzie Miller and husband Michael on the birth of their daughter in June 2012.
• Congratulations to Research Engineering/Sci Assistant Candice Lamb and husband Luke on the birth of their daughter in March 2012.
• Dr. Sang Taek Jung accepts Assistant Professor position at Kookmin University, S. Korea
• Congratulations to Mark Pogson and Sean Carroll for completion of their Ph.D's!

2011

• Three lab members start their own labs as tenure-track faculty:
  1. Dr. Xin Ge, post-doctoral fellow 2008-11: Current affiliation: Asst. Professor, Dept. of Chemical and Environmental Engineering, U. CA at Riverside, Riverside, CA
  2. Dr. Sai Reddy, post-doctoral fellow 2008-11: Current affiliation: Asst. Professor, Dept. of Chemical and Biological Engineering, U. Colorado, Boulder CO
  3. Dr. Tae Hyeon Yoo, post-doctoral fellow 2008-11. Current affiliation: Asst. Professor, Dept. of Applied Chemistry and Biological Engineering, Ajou University, S. Korea
• Dr. Mridula Rani, Ph.D. 2010, post-doctoral fellow 2010-2011 accepts a position as Research Scientist at Theranos, Palo Alto CA
• Dr. Jason Cantor, Ph.D. 2010, post-doctoral fellow 2010-2011 accepts a post-doctoral position with David Sabbatini, Whitehead institute for Biomedical Research and MIT. Jason was also awarded post-doctoral fellowships from ACS and NIH
• Funding from the NIH WRCE supported the purchase of a Thermo Scientific LTQ Orbitrap Velos mass spectrometer for immunoproteomic studies in infectious diseases.