LAB UPDATES

2024


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! 😀