2024
10/04/24
We escaped the room with time to spare!!
Ice cream on a warm fall day to refuel after lab clean-up!
09/16/24
Ariana Treat, Shirley Yuan, Cat Nguyen, Phelps Tin and Tiffany Chang present their research to colleagues and CRISPR luminaries like Prof. Michael P. Terns at Penn’s Fall Research Expo!
07/03/24
We say goodbye to Vinh with a heavy heart! As the first lab member of the lab, Vinh walked so we could run 😀
06/28/24
Achievement Unlocked: “Green Day Band”
More than 50% of the lab thinks green shirts are fashionable?
06/12/24
Briana Cruga passes her Ph.D. candidacy exam!!! 😀
05/31/24
First mass journal club meeting where lab members split into groups to analyze a paper using the CREATES process. + Taking the opportunity to hang out near the bio-pond!
05/24/24
The gang gets together for Briana’s candidacy practice talk!
04/27/24
Achievement Unlocked: “The buffer must flow.“
Vinh and Andrew connect 2 of 5 columns to our shiny new AKTA!
The American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology highlighted our work for DNA Day!
04/23/24
Ariana Treat has been awarded the Ruth Marcus Kanter College Alumni Society Undergraduate Research Grant, from Penn’s Center for Undergraduate Research & Fellowships!
Shirley Yuan has been awarded the Ernest M. Brown, Jr. College Alumni Society Undergraduate Research Grant, from Penn’s Center for Undergraduate Research & Fellowships!
04/11/24
Briana generously bakes gluten-free banana-walnut bread to fuel morning lab meeting! 😀
04/05/24
03/07/24
Penn’s Center for Undergraduate Research & Fellowships has selected us to receive a Grant for Faculty Mentoring Undergraduate Research award to support stipends and research expenses of the undergraduates in our lab!
02/29/24
Penn’s Center for Undergraduate Research & Fellowships has selected us to receive a Penn Undergraduate Mentorship award to support early research experiences of three more undergraduates in our lab for Summer 2024!
02/28/24
Lab equipment is getting installed – The Wet Lab space is starting to look good! 😀
02/07/24
Shirley Yuan joins us for research experience as a first-year undergraduate!
01/30/24
Ariana Treat comes aboard for research experience as a first-year undergraduate!
01/22/24
NIH’s NIGMS approves the R00 stage of Dr. Santiago-Frangos’s MOSAIC K99/R00 grant, for research at UPenn!
01/17/24
Achievement Unlocked: There’s no “i” in team.
The team doubles in size! Vinh Dang comes aboard as a Research Specialist till the summer, when he’ll transition to med school!
01/01/24
The lab opens!
2023
09/01/23
The lab website goes live! 😀