2023 News

We had a great time bowling with our rotation students! Check out the cool photo!
Congrats to lab alumna Dr. Sierra Williams! She was elected to the national executive board for the ACS Division of Biological Chemistry!

Congrats to Kat, Tanya, Beatrice, Anna, and our collaborators in the Schnermann and Mills labs! Our paper was just accepted at JOC.
We had a successful Luciferase Summit with the Leconte group! Looking forward to next year!

Congrats to lab alumna Suha! She accepted an optical engineer position at Northrop Grumman.
Congrats to lab alumna Carly! She just accepted a Senior Scientist position in the biocatalysis group at Pfizer!

Robby defended his thesis! He will now be working at TAE Life Sciences to make some new therapeutic antibody conjugates. Congratulations Dr. Dorn!
The lab had a beach day on Balboa Island!

Congrats to lab alum Zi Yao! He won the Best Poster Award at the Bioorganic GRC for his immunopeptidome work in the Wells lab.
Congrats to lab alumna Rachel Steinhardt! She just received an NSF CAREER award for her work on chemical tools for bio-orthogonal neuromodulation at Syracuse. Well done, Prof. Steinhardt!
A huge congrats to Justin! He won 3 departmental awards!
Congrats to former lab undergraduate Sabrina Tran! She accepted her U of Miami offer to attend medical school this fall.
Congrats to Justin! He was selected for the Pitts Undergraduate Award here at UCI, one of the top honors in the Chemistry Department.
Congrats to Tanvi! She was awarded a SURP fellowship.

Congrats to the four new Ph.D. candidates in the lab! Way to crush it, Erin, Tanya, Catherine, and Julia!
Undergrad alum Jonathan Tchan will be attending Chicago Medical School in the fall. Congrats!
Congrats to Mariana and lab alums Carly and Anna! Their manuscript on caged luciferin multiplexing was accepted today at Photochem. Photobiol. Read it here!
Congrats to lab alumna Prof. Joanna Laird! She will be establishing her own research group at Cal Poly this summer!

Congrats to Justin! He was awarded the Outstanding Student Award from the Orange County chapter of ACS.
Congrats to Lila – the newest Ph.D. candidate in the lab!
Congrats to Justin! He accepted his offer from UC Berkeley for grad school. Go Bears!
Congrats to our former undergrad researcher Suha! She accepted a summer internship at Northrop Grumman Space Systems.
Welcome to Nicola, a visiting scholar from the Wagenknecht group in Germany!

Congrats to lab alumn Colin Rathbum! He recieved a near-perfect score on his first NIH R15 application as a professor.
Congrats to lab alumn Dave Row! Previously a senior scientist in protein engineering at Merck, he just accepted a new position with Aliada Therapeutics in Boston to work on drug delivery into the brain.
Congrats to lab alumna Anna Love! She was awarded an NIH fellowship for her postdoctoral work in the Moore lab at Scripps!

Congrats to lab alumn Brendan Zhang! He took a new position at Thermo Fisher working on LNP delivery platforms.
Congrats to Kat, Robby, and our collaborators in the Potma lab! Our manuscript on enhancing alkyne-based Raman tags can now be viewed in Journal of Physical Chemistry B.
Congrats to Anna, Kat, Lila, Tanya, alumni Carly and Zi, and our collaborators in the Schernmann and Mills labs! Our work on red-shifted coumarin luciferins can now be viewed online!

Graduate student Halley Lin-Jones officially joins the lab! Welcome!
The lab went on a group outing to the bowling alley to celebrate the new year! Check out the photos.
Pharm Sci rotation student Omar Ocegueda joins the lab for the winter quarter. Welcome!
Congrats to lab alumn Zi! He was awarded an NIH postdoctoral fellowship for his work in the Wells lab at UCSF, and he was also selected for LSRF funding!
Congrats to Anna, Kat, Lila, Tanya, alumni Carly and Zi, and our collaborators in the Schernmann and Mills labs! Our work on red-shifted coumarin luciferins was accepted at JACS. More updates to come!
Congrats to lab alumna Sierra and our collaborators in the Leconte group! Their work on improved analyses for orthogonal bioluminescent tools was accepted at ChemBioChem. Check it out here!