Maura Belanger presented at the annual AAI conference held this year in Austin, Texas She presented her work on delivery of beads to lymph node slices. While there she saw some great talks and returned with a lot of new ideas for the lab. We look forward to the new insights and to following some of the scientific advancements coming out of this conference!
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Alyssa M. and Rebecca Y. win summer research fellowships
Congratulations to 1st-year student Alyssa Montalbine and 2nd-year student Rebecca Yoo, who each won competitive undergraduate research fellowships to fund their work in the lab this summer! Alyssa received a NanoSTAR fellowship for her work on a scaffold for an artificial lymph node, and Rebecca received a Department of Chemistry fellowship and a College Science Scholars award for her work testing the effects of fluid flow on lymph node tissue. We are excited to have them here with us this summer!
Meg takes top honor at 3rd year poster session
We are so proud of Meg Catterton for receiving the award of "Best Poster" at the annual 3rd-year PhD student Poster Session in the Department of Chemistry. Meg presented her work on a device for local stimulation of tissue slices with a movable microfluidic port. Following the poster session, she had the opportunity to present her work to the entire department in a celebratory seminar. Great job Meg! Look for her paper coming soon.
Congratulations also to the 2nd and 3rd place winners of a great poster session!
- 1st Place: Meg Catterton (Pompano lab)
- 2nd Place: Qian Liang (Cafiso lab)
- 3rd Place: Nicole Swope (Columbus lab) & Robert D'Ippolito (Hunt Lab)
Image credits: Dr. Jim Demas
Andrew presents at Pittcon
PhD student Andrew Kinman represented our lab at Pittcon this year in Orlando in late February. He presented his exciting recent work in the Sunday poster session at this national gathering of analytical chemists. Many thanks to those who offered feedback on his project, a microfluidic device for optimization of protein derivatization reactions. We look forward to publishing his work in a few months!
Austin advances to PhD candidacy
Congratulations to Austin for successfully completing his PhD candidacy exam in February! We look forward to seeing all you accomplish.
Celebration after PhD qualifying exams were over!
Photo credit: Prof. Jim Demas
Welcome Aruna and Paola
The Pompano lab is growing. We welcomed Aruna Sastri and Paola Covarrubias this semester. Aruna is earning her Masters degree in Chemistry this year and plans to work on novel methods to study lymphocytes in action. Paola is a first-year undergraduate who joins us from Dallas, Texas. She plans to work on methods to keep lymph node tissue alive in culture -- hopefully for weeks at a time! Good luck to both of them.
Dr. Ashley Ross Featured in C&E News
Congratulations to former post-doc Ashley Ross who was featured in C&E news this week! The article describes her work done in our lab to use a new microfluidic system to measure diffusion of proteins through living tissue.
Click the link below for the full story:
http://acsmeetings.cenmag.org/watching-immune-proteins-and-therapeutics-diffuse-through-lymph-nodes/
We wish Ashley the best of luck at her new appointment as an Assistant Professor at the University of Cinncinatti Ohio!
Welcome Austin!
The Pompano lab is happy to welcome Austin Dunn as a new first year graduate student! Welcome to the lab and we all look forward to working with you!
Paper Publication!
Congrats to Dr. Ashley Ross, Maura Belanger, and Jacob Woodroof for publishing the first paper of the Pompano Lab. The paper is entitled "Spatially resolved microfluidic stimulation of lymphoid tissue ex vivo" and can be found by clicking the link. This paper is published in The Analyst.
Welcome Hannah Freeman!
The Pompano lab is participating in a new summer research opportunity, the First Year Research Experience (FYRE). This program gives underclassmen from underrepresented groups in the sciences an opportunity to experience research early in their collegiate careers. Through this program we welcome Hannah Freeman of Dillard University in New Orleans! We look forward to all the great work you'll do this summer Hannah!
For more information about the FYRE program please click here
