End of 2025-2026 Academic Year: Lab Trip to Franklin Fountain and Shane's Confectionary
To wish well to our departing Penn PREP Scholar, Valerie, our seniors, Sage, Petros, Roshni, and LucÃa (although only Sage could attend, drat), and start to wish Fare Thee Well to our amazing technical staff including Pragatee and Niser, we went as a group to a SECRET OUTPOST of Old City's well known ice cream shop Franklin Fountain (green building, red door, cacob nib sign).
Inside we had a remarkable presentation about the history of chocolate in Philadelphia from proprietor extraordinaire, Eric Burley, which includings chocolate TASTINGS and TONS of history. We had no idea Philly was so critical to literally the development of candy/chocolate in the US.
Then the lab enjoyed a free-for-all shopping experience in Shane's Candy Store (outside and inside pictured - so cool, you should visit!), followed by actual ice cream from Franklin Fountains.
Sad to see folks move on, but thrilled we could have such a unique (and yummy) time together.
Sage and Sam meet at the Olympics in Paris, Summer 2024
February 2024 Scavenger Hunt at Reading Terminal Market with Eisch Lab Folks and Friends. It. Was. AMAZING!!!
Graduation 2023! Here's Grace and Delia, looking very graduated 😀
Happy Birthday to Elise Summer 2022! Guess she likes chocolate :😀
Team Barber Summer 2022! One of their several Team lunches. L to R: Sofia, Sheyenne, Sarah, and Dr. Barber herself.
Key "Team Touchscreen" players, snapped in January 2022. L to R: Raymon, Grace, and Harley.
Lab winter party at SPIN in December 2021. A blast was had by all, seriously. Grace and Priya came out the ping pong champions!
A snapshot from the first (and hopefully annual) Fall 2020 Eisch Lab Octa-thon. EL members competed over 8 grueling and utterly dignified events, including "make a mask using the gift box of goodies you received". L to R, top to bottom row: Amelia, Amelia, Anthony, Raena, Dana, Lyles, Harley, Danielle and Noa, Max, Steve, Fred, Sanghee with Rhea and Ruby, and Priya. A surprising number of folks selected bubble wrap for the mask.
Team "Perinatal Hypoxia" from Summer 2020 (100% virtual!): Team Leader Danielle Barber, Max Wragan, Avi Suri, Dana Raphael, and expert "lurker" Amelia.
Summer 2020 (completely virtual!) crew during our last Eisch Lab Meeting of the summer on August 20, 2020. Top to bottom, L to R: Jaysen, Amelia (or half of her face), Amelia's audio connection, Avi, Danielle, Fred, Yuying, Max, Priya, Riya, Lyles, Ruthie, Paula, Dana, Haley, Steve, and Sanghee.
Regular Eisch Lab Members (minus our awesome undergraduates), October 2019 (back to front, left to right): Amelia Eisch, Fred Kiffer, Sanghee Yun, Lyles Clark, Hannah Deutsch, Danielle Barber, Catalina Guzman, Kyung Jin Ahn, Ivan Soler, Steve Simmons. Not pictured: Fionya Tran, Stella Spears
Some of the Summer 2019 crew on our lab outing to the rather remarkable Philadelphia Mutter Museum. L to R, back row: Fred, Emily, Amelia, Lyles, Ruthie; front row: Dana, Rikley, Jordan, Steve.
Summer 2019 crew flashing our "dentate gyrus" sign (top to bottom): Eileen Yang (The Peddie School), Will Haury (Penn), Youvin Chung (Penn Vagelos Program), Dana Raphael (Penn PURM Program), Rikley Costa Paixao (CRISSP, PCC and Bucknell), Jordyn Schwartz (Dickinson), Priya Kumar (Penn PURM Program).
Eisch Lab Team Tech, January 2018: Adam Gibson (moved on to Penn post-bacc), Ryan Reynolds (moved on to UT Southwestern graduate school), Matt DeSalle (moved on to Drexel Master's Program in Data Science), and Maiko Suarez (moved on to medical school at UN Las Vegas)
(Almost) all of the PennMed/CHOP Eisch Lab in Philadelphia, PA in January 2018 (top to bottom, left to right): Matt DeSalle, Amelia Eisch, Hannah Deutsch, Giulia Zanni, Sanghee Yun, Lyles Clark, Melinda (Mindy) Snitow (honorary EL member, postdoc in Peter Klein's Lab, PennMed), Maiko Suarez, Adam Gibson, Ryan Reynolds. Not pictured: Cody Whoolery (who was still working at UT Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas) and Ruthie Wittenberg.
The Eisch Lab in April 2013 when we were still at UT Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, TX flashing the dentate gyrus hand sign (top to bottom, left to right): Philip Rivera, Amelia Eisch, Naoki Ito, Sanghee Yun, Sarah Latchney, Melanie Lucero, Sarah Bulin, Devon Richardson, Rachel Redfield, Shibani Muhkerjee.Â
From the Wayback Machine...
Eisch Lab June 2006 at UT Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, TX (top to bottom, left to right): Amelia Eisch, Michael Donovan, Stephanie Fischer, Jessica Ables, Gwyndolen Harburg, Diane Lagace, David Pyle, Laure Farnbauch, Amy Arguello, Michele Noonan, Josh Schonborn, Nathan DeCarolis, Ricky Markus
How far back can we go? Try this one.
 Eisch Lab, circa 2002 (left to right): Ryan Simonak, Rebekah Norris, Amelia Eisch, Chitra Mandyam