News

2025

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!

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!

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!

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!

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!

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!

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!

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!

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!

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!

07/05/2016: 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!