It was a bitter sweet feeling to say goodbye to Kelly as she heads out to start her own lab in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Georgia in August! We are so proud of you, Kelly! You will be dearly missed!

Through the Summer Health Professionals Education Program (SHPEP), we hosted six undergraduate students from across the country for hand-on lab experience in our lab on July 02. The students had fun participating in various experiments led by Quynh, Ryan, Hideaki, and Kelly, such as lipid peroxidation, catalase-catalyzed decomposition of H2O2, tissue culture techniques, lipid extraction, and mass spectrometry!

Kelly, Dylan, Amy, and Josi had fun presenting their work at the ASMS meeting last week (June 02-06), including two oral presentations and two poster presentations! Well done, everyone! Proud of you!

Recently, we have a few undergraduate students joining the lab: Jonathan Luong in January and Pakteema Tong and Qingyu Guo in April! They are all majoring in Biochemistry at the UW and expect to graduate in 2020! Welcome to the team!

Congrats, Dylan! Well done!

Vanessa joins Medicinal Chemistry graduate program after graduating from California State University Channel Islands majoring in Chemistry (minor in Biology and Chicano studies) and has past research experience in neuroscience and organic synthesis! Welcome, Vanessa!

Tania Ruiz Velasco joins our lab for two months through the Pharmacological Science Summer Diversity Program (PSSDP). Tania just finished her Junior year at the University of Chicago majoring in Chemistry and will be studying the effect of small molecule drugs on lipid metabolism. Welcome, Tania!

June 03-07, 2018, San Diego, CA

At the posters:

A MedChem get-together:

Great job, Josi!