Out of teaching shape

With research leave last spring, Tuesday marked my first day in the classroom since last December. My schedule this year has my chemical biology class on T/R morning and experimental biochemistry lab on T/R afternoons. It has the potential to be great for research...

An interesting research project

When I was a post-doc in the Katzenellenbogen lab at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, I worked on a number of different projects. I thank Dr. K for allowing me to be contribute to such a variety of research ideas. In addition, I thank him for encouraging...

Gottwald Games Summer 2018

7 years ago, Profs. Angie Hilliker and Carrie Wu of the biology department implemented the 1st annual Gottwald Games. This fun event consists of a variety of field games, all with a science-y twist. Games throughout the years have included Water Glove Toss, Petri Dish...

Goodbye to Kristen!

Friday was Kristen Rubenstein’s last day in the lab. She has been working full-time since last August as a post-baccalaureate researcher during her gap year before medical school. Back in January 2017 when I was writing the Jeffress grant, I approached Kristen,...

… and we have two peaks!

When Joseph first started in the lab in Summer 2017, I tasked him with analyzing the compounds that Hyejin had synthesized. I thought that HPLC was our best bet for getting the answers we wanted since Hyejin had some preliminary data, albeit not perfect, from the GC....