News and Pictures

Ryann Pryor is an NSF REU researcher in our laboratory for Summer 24.  She came from Duke University.

Byran  is at Johns Hopkin for Summer 24 research

Matin Khanbeyki joins the lab Spring 23 as a PhD student.

Asi passes qualifying exam (8/31/2023)

MARM 2022: Having lunch the Professor Som Mitra's group and presenting research done by  graduate student Indrani Gupta.

Prof. Frank Jordan's retirement celebration.  Excellent reseacher, a dear friend and collaborator (05/2022).

Group photo of Frank Jordan and Edgardo Farinas group (2019).  Kudos to Joydeep Chakrabory for completing PhD! Also, I thank Prof. Frank Jordan.  This could not have been done without  him.  This PhD has alot of memories...

Edgardo Farinas takes a break in AY 2017...

Jordan/Farinas Group meeting (2015).  First, we eat lunch and discuss politics, movies, etc.. Then, science...

Group Photo 2013. Having lunch at Filipino restuarant.

NJIT Chemical Engineering end of year celebration.  Tristan Thompson, the Dead Head, was a great undergraduate in the laboratory.  He came back to college after some time off for various reasons. He now has a job in industry.  We shared alot of stories (5/2018).

First day as Department Chair (9/04/2012).  I learned alot...

Congratulation to Nirupama for earning her PhD July 27 2010! Summer 2010 (left-right) Stephanie Camp, Stephanie Chicas, Silu Sheng, Edgardo Farinas, Han Jia, Nirupama Gupta, Alexander Gurvits, and Da Jeong Shim.  There were alot of surprises at this defense.

Han Jia joins the lab in Summer 2010.

Nirupama won a 1st place poster award at the 22nd annual Rutgers-UMDNJ Minisymposium  in Molecular Biophysics, Rutgers, Piscataway, NJ,  05/01/2010. Directed Evolution of CotA Laccase for Increased Substrate Specificity using Bacillus subtilis spores, Nirupama Gupta and Edgardo T. Farinas.

Nirupama Gupta and Da Jeong Shim attend the The American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Annual Meeting, Anaheim, CA. 4/ 24-26/ 2010

Shim is about to enjoy a huge slice of birthday cake (01/28).  She is celebrating by making figures and inducing E1o mutants. She shares her birthday with Prof. Frank Jordan, our collaborator.

Silu Sheng and Sangita Paudel join the lab in Winter 2010

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Chemistry majors JoAnna DiVincenzo and Charles Poyssick attended the 2009 graduation and discovered that they both work at Merck.

Nirupama Gupta's paper, "Narrowing Laccase Substrate Specificity Using Active Site Saturation Mutagenesis" was featured in the March 2009 issue of Combinatorial Chemistry & High-Throughput Screening.

Gerardo Tolentino was awarded Honorable Mention for his thermostability studies on laccase at the McNair Symposium (Spring 2009).

Chand Shah presented her poster at  236th ACS national meeting, Philadelphia, PA August 18th.  She also was awarded 1st Place/Blue Ribbon at ACS SEED presentation at Seton Hall September 22nd. 

Summer 2008 (left-right) Da Jeong Shim, Edgardo Farinas, Chand Shah, JoAnna DiVincenzo, Nirupama Gupta

Shim and Nirupama are looking busy for the boss, but they are really discussing what movie to see over the weekend.

Nirupama at LRIG Student Poster contest (05/17/2007). She won 1st place!