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Lyn Mattathil is a second year medical student at Albany Medical College and is involved in clinical pediatric obesity research. She presented her findings at the fall, 2019, Albany Medical College Medical Student Investigation Symposium.
above: Amanda's ready for anything! This was after a pipe burst from the cold and flooded the lab...
Shannon Kelly finished her MS and moved to the PhD program in Biomedical Sciences at the University of Missouri. Her innovative work on glucose-dependent ROS production and resultant metabolic signaling won a poster award at EB2018.
Amanda Eccardt graduated in spring, 2019, and took a position as a senior scientist in Biotherapeutics & Biopharmaceutical Sciences at Pfizer.
Amanda, Mark, and Shannon at the Integrative Biology of Exercise conference in Phoenix
Rohan, Amanda, Thomas, Shannon, and Yuan
DelShawn at the bench.
DelShawn Fowler joined us in summer 2018 as a participant in the McNair Scholars Program.
Cass Dedert, A SEMO grad, joined the lab as a Masters student in July, 2018.
Mark Mannino finished his two-year hitch as a research tech at the Dana Farber Cancer Institute. He's now in an MD/PhD program at UT-Southwestern.
The Fire that led to a gut rehab of the building that housed the department in May, 2017, gets farther in the rear view mirror every day. The fresh Macelwane Hall will re-open for business in January, 2019.
The University has committed $50 M for building a new Interdisciplinary Science and Engineering (chemistry, biology, engineering, neuroscience, etc.) facility that will open in 2020.
Rohan Prasad is in med school at SLU.
Stan Andrisse finished his postdoc at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine is an assistant professor of Physiology and Biophysics at Howard University School of Medicine.
Rona Robinson-Hill was working on her doctorate while she was a high school teacher performing research in the lab in 2009-2010. She's on the biology faculty at Ball State University.
April Moon and Amanda
Mark, Shannon, Amanda, Yuan, Rohan, Chiron, and Jon
Taking inventory after the fire.
Cass optimizes an enzyme activity assay.
Rishi, Jon, Shannon, Mark, Amanda, and Rohan
