2026
7/01/26: Julia Olszko joined our lab as part of her Master's porject. Welcome aboard, Julia!
- 6/22/26: Congratulations to Kehinde Ayinde for being awarded the Molecular Biophysics Program Travel Award to attend the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory "Molecular Mechanisms of Neuronal Connectivity" Sympoisum!
- 6/1/26: Callum Tiller joined our lab as a summer high school researcher. Welcome aboard, Callum!
- 5/15/26: Congratulations to Nipunika Rupasinghe for being awarded the Research Excellence Award from Iowa State University for her thesis dissertation!
- 04/14/2026: Congratulations to Chigozie Ngoka and Khoa Nguyen for successfully passing their qualifying exams!
- 04/07/2026: Congratulations to Rachel for successfully defending her thesis and graduating as the 7th Ph.D. from the lab!
- 04/06/2026: Congratulations to Nipunika for successfully defending her thesis and graduating as the 6th Ph.D. from the lab!
- 03/30/2026: Congratulations to Yijun for successfully defending the thesis and graduating as the 5th Ph.D. from our lab!
- 03/23/2026: Congratulations to Nipunika for receiving the BBMB Research Excellence Award!
- 03/09/2026: Dr. Mengran Liu joined out lab as a postdoc! Welcome aboard, Mengran!
- 03/07/2026: Nipunika presented a poster in ASBMB conference and presented in the 3MT Flash Talk Competition!
- 02/12/2026: Nipunika gave a BBMB departmental seminar at Iowa State University!
2025
- 11/03/2025: Huang Wang joined our lab as a postdoc! Welcome aboard, Huang!
- 07/01/2025: Zehui Guo joined our lab as a postdoc! Welcome aboard, Zehui!
- 06/01/2025: Our lab has moved from Iowa to Texas!
- 04/01/2025: Stone Chen joined the Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Digestive and Liver Diseases, UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas.
- 03/24/2025: Congratulations to DJ for successfully defending the thesis and graduating as the 4th Ph.D. from our lab!
- 01/01/2025: Khoa Nguyen joined our lab as a new graduate student! Welcome aboard, Khoa!
2024
- 07/01/2024: End of the school year lab bowling party.
- 06/24/2024: Ojas Pawar joined our lab as a summer research high school student. Welcome aboard, Ojas!
- 04/10/2024: Congratulations to Simon Kuihon for successfully defending the thesis and graduating as the third Ph.D. from our lab!
- 03/25/2024: Congratulations to Elijah Vanderkamp for being selected as a BSRP Scholar!
2023
- 12/19/2023: Chigozie Ngoka joined our lab as a new graduate student! Welcome aboard, Chigozie!
- 06/03/2023: Stone started his cryo-EM visiting fellowship in Xiaochen Bai's lab at UT Southwestern! Thanks to everybody who made this trip possible!
- 05/23/2023: Dinitha Caldera joined our lab as a Lab Technician. Welcome aboard, Dinitha!
- 05/03/2023: End of the semester lab dinner and farewell to Hannah Piper.
- 05/01/2023: Congratulations to Dan Kramer for becoming our Research Scientist II and Lab Manager!
- 04/14/2023: Congratulations to Hannah Piper for successfully defending the thesis and graduating as the second Ph.D. from our lab!
- 04/06/2023: Congratulations to Yijun Liu for receiving the Roy J. Carver Graduate Student Award!
- 03/29/2023: Congratulations to Avery Enriquez for being selected as a BSRP Scholar and a Beitz Fellow!
- 02/09/2023: Avery Enriquez joined our lab as an undergraduate assistant. Welcome aboard, Avery!
- 01/25/2023: Congratulations to Dan Kramer for winning the ASBMB 2023 Travel Award!
- 01/25/2023: Rosa Anaya joined our lab as an undergraduate assistant. Welcome aboard, Rosa!
2022
- 12/21/2022: Kehinde Ayinde joined our lab as a new graduate student! Welcome aboard, Kehinde!
- 08/25/2022: Elijah Vanderkamp joined our lab as an undergraduate assistant. Welcome aboard, Eli!
- 08/16/2022: Dan Kramer is now a postdoc in our lab, and congratulations to Pong for passing her M.S. degree thesis defense!
- 07/05/2022: Congratulations to Daniel Kramer for successfully defending the thesis and graduating as the first Ph.D. from our lab!
- 05/20/2022: Farewell picnic for Dr. Sheng Yang! Congratulations on submitting both Rac1 and Arf1 papers and moving to a new position in Johnson & Johnson!
- 05/05/2022: Javed Gomez joined our lab as an undergraduate assistant. Welcome aboard, Javed!
- 04/14/2022: Rachel Murphy officially joined our lab as a graduate student from the MCDB program! Welcome aboard, Rachel!
2021
- 12/13/2021: Nipunika Rupasinghe joined our lab as a new graduate student! Welcome aboard, Nipunika!
- 11/29/2021: Wanming Dai joined the lab as an undergraduate assistant. Welcome aboard, Wanming!
- 09/01/2021: Samantha Birkeland joined the lab as an undergraduate assistant. Welcome aboard, Sam!
- 04/19/2021: Congratulations to Simon for winning the BBMB Teaching Award!
- 04/05/2021: Abbigale Brown joined our lab as a graduate student from the Immunobiology Program! Welcome aboard, Abbigale!
- 01/28/2021: We received the CAREER Award from the National Science Foundation!
- 01/21/2021: Andrew Twombley joined the lab as an undergraduate assistant. Welcome aboard, Andy!
2020
- 12/18/2020: Two new graduate students, Yijun Liu and Daniel Boesch, joined our lab today! Welcome aboard, Yijun and Dan!
- 07/08/2020: Congratulations to Simon for becoming a father! And welcome, Tabitha, to the world!
- 01/13/2020: My Tran joined the lab as an undergraduate research assistant. Welcome aboard, My!
2019
- 12/08/2019: Congratulations to Dr. Yang for becoming a father! And welcome, Lucas, to the world!
- 10/01/2019: Soeun Park joined the lab as an undergraduate research assistant. Welcome aboard, Soeun!
- 09/03/2019: Raymond Larsen joined the lab as an undergraduate research assistant. Welcome aboard, Raymond!
- 05/23/2019: Summer picnic at the Ledges State Park, and Farewell to Chuyun heading for the UIUC graduate program and Jake heading for the U of Iowa Dental School.
- 05/10/2019: Congratulations to Jake Gallaher for graduation! Best wishes to your study in dental school!
- 05/08/2019: We were awarded the Innovative Project grant from the American Heart Association!
- 04/09/2019: Congratulations to Brodrick Sevart for being awarded the University Honors Summer Research Grant!
- 02/26/2019: Congratulations to Daniel Kramer for being awarded the Roy J. Carver Graduate Student Award!
- 02/19/2019: Congratulations to Daniel Kramer for being awarded the Brown Graduate Fellowship!
- 02/15/2019: Stone is awarded the Miller Faculty Fellowship.
- 01/14/2019: Brodrick Sevart joined the lab as an undergraduate research assistant. Welcome aboard, Brodrick!
2018
- 12/16/2018: Congratulations to Chuyun Teo and Sophie Effiong for graduation! Best wishes to your study in graduate school.
- 11/05/2018: Patrick Berges joined the lab as an undergraduate research assistant. Welcome aboard, Patrick!
- 11/03/2018: Congratulations to Hannah Piper for winning the Best Talk in the ISU GMAP Research Symposium!
- 11/01/2018: We moved to a new space on lab's 3rd birthday.
- 09/29/2018: Congratulations to Dan Kramer for winning the Best Talk in the ISU Neuroscience Research Day!
- 09/08/2018: Lab brunch and go-Karting to celebrate a new semester!
- 08/23/2018: Cindy Tran joined the lab as an undergraduate research assistant. Welcome aboard, Cindy!
- 07/27/2018: We were awarded our first MIRA/R35 grant from the National Institute of Health!
- 06/07/2018: Summer picnic!
- 05/07/2018: Sophie Effiong joined the lab as an undergraduate research assistant. Welcome aboard, Sophie!
- 04/20/2018: Congratulations to Chuyun Teo and Jake Gallaher for being awarded the Dean's High Impact Award for Undergraduate Research from LAS!
- 03/14/2018: Congratulations to Dan Kramer for being awarded the Print and Grace Powers Hudson Scholarship in Agriculture from CALS!
- 02/05/2018: Congratulations to Hannah Piper for being awarded the Graduate Research Assistantship Match (GRAM) assistantship from the Iowa Agriculture and Home Economics Experiment Station (AES)!
- 01/02/2018: Hannah Piper joined the lab as a Ph.D. graduate student. Welcome aboard, Hannah!
2017
- 08/21/2017: Lab dinner to celebrate the end of 2017 summer!
- 06/05/2017: Pongrat Jaisil joined the lab as a Ph.D. graduate student. She will work with Jeff Essner's lab to use zebrafish as a model system to study actin regulators. Welcome aboard, Pong!
- 05/15/2017: Chu-Yun Teo joined the lab as an undergraduate research assistant. Welcome aboard, Chu-Yun!
- 01/03/2017: Tim Broederdorf becomes our new Research Associate. Congratulations, Tim!
2016
- 12/13/2016: Daniel Kramer joined the lab as a Ph.D. graduate student. Welcome aboard, Daniel!
- 09/09/2016: Our first whole family portrait!
- 07/18/2016: Our tissue culture room is officially running.
- 07/05/2016: Pam Vardaxis joined the lab as a Research Associate. Welcome aboard, Pam!
- 05/16/2016: Jake Gallaher joined the lab as an undergraduate research assistant. Welcome aboard, Jake!
- 04/27/2016: Dr. Sheng Yang joined the lab as a postdoc research associate. Welcome aboard, Sheng!
- 04/11/2016: Tim Broederdorf joined the lab as a graduate student. Welcome aboard, Tim!
- 03/28/2016: Our website is online!
- 01/14/2016: A Lian joined the lab as an undergraduate research assistant. Welcome aboard, Lian!
2015
- 11/01/2015: Grand opening of the lab!
