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Endrei defended his PhD dissertation today!
(2024-05-24)
Endrei presented his PhD work and successfully defended his dissertation today. He will be officially graduating in August and will be given his diploma at the ceremony in December.
He is not leaving the lab just yet, but he will eventually move on to pursue a medical degree.
Congratulations, Endrei!
Endrei and Jayna win big!
(2024-04-27)
Endrei and Jayna presented today at the annual Hawaii Branch American Society of Microbiology (HI ASM) Spring Meeting and received First and Third Prize for Oral Presentation, respectively. Congratulations, Endrei and Jayna!
The event was at the Kakaako Medical Campus, i.e., John A. Burns School of Medicine. More information about this meeting can be found here: HI ASM Spring Meeting
UROP awards for Samantha and Chloé
(2023-11-16)
Samantha has been awarded $4,921 from the Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP) for a project titled "Quantification of ribosomes and zinc in Mycobacterium smegmatis grown under zinc limitation" and Chloé got $4999 for "Studying tuberculosis treatments with a zebrafish infection model". Both projects will start in spring 2024. Congratulations!
Jayna recieved a TA Award!
(2023-05-04)
Jayna has been awarded the 2023 School of Life Sciences (SoLS) Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award, which comes with a $500 reward. This award is given to a few TAs each year "in recognition of their efforts to go above and beyond into support of undergraduate learning in the SoLS".
Congratulations, Jayna!
Endrei presented at the HI ASM Spring Meeting
(2023-04-22)
Endrei presented today at the annual Hawaii Branch American Society of Microbiology (HI ASM) Spring Meeting and received a Travel Award to attend next Keystone TB meeting. Congratulations, Endrei!
The event was at the Kakaako Medical Campus, i.e., John A. Burns School of Medicine. More information about this meeting can be found here:
Kaye presented at the Tester Symposium
(2023-04-13)
Kaye bravely represented Prisic Lab (and microbiologists!) at the 47th Annual Albert L. Tester Memorial Symposium (April 12-14, Honolulu, HI). She gave a short talk about her most recent results and got some great questions from the audience. Good job, Kaye!
More information about this meeting can be found here:
More UROP funding for the Prisic Lab members
(2022-12-23)
Chloé and Kayla have been awarded a new "Entering Research and Creative Work" - ERC UROP funding, receiving $3,000 and $1,500 for Spring-Fall 2023 and Spring 2023, respectively. Congratulations to Chloé and Kayla!
Another UROP award for the Prisic Lab - Congratulations Kaye!
(2022-11-25)
Kaye has been awarded $4,913 from the Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP) for a project titled "The Effects of Alternative Ribosomal Proteins on Morphogenesis of Mycolicibacterium smegmatis". Her project will start in spring 2023. Congratulations!
Prisic Lab got ALA Innovation Award!
(2022-07-01)
The American Lung Association awarded Sladjana $150,000 for two years. The grant is titled "Dissecting how macrophages respond to zinc limited Mycobacterium tuberculosis" and will support Endrei's PhD study. You can read more about it here.
Students from Prisic lab win awards at HI-ASM!
(2022-04-16)
Mona, Michaela, and Endrei had oral presentations at the Hawaii Branch - American Society for Microbiology (HI-ASM) Spring Meeting. Michaela and Mona's presentation was selected as the best in Oral Undergraduate presentations category (1st place). The award comes with a $250 cash prize. Endrei got an $800 travel award for attending and presenting at the Keystone conference in August.
Congratulations, Michaela, Mona, and Endrei!
Michaela is SEOTY finalist for 2022!
(2022-04-13)
Among thousands of student employees at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, Michaela won the 3rd place for the Student Employee of the Year (SEOTY) Award. This award is for her Laboratory Research Assistant position in the Prisic Lab and includes a $500 scholarship. She was also presented a "Special Recognition" from Governor Ige at the 37th Annual SEOTY Awards & Appreciation Reception today.
Congratulations, Michaela!
Ayana is selected to represent Hawaii at the ISEF
(2022-04-09)
Ayana's project was very successful at the State Science Fair: it was awarded Best in Category (1st Place) for Microbiology, cash scholarship from the Queen's Health System, and it was selected to represent Hawaii (among 7 other projects) at the 2022 International Science and Engineering Fair (ISEF) held in Atlanta, Georgia this May
Congratulations, Ayana!
She has done it again! Ayana's new project wins awards
(2022-02-21)
Ayana, a high school senior who has returned to our lab for the 3rd time this year, competed at the District Science Fair and her project was awarded Best in Category for Microbiology, overall top six, the Office of Naval Research - US Navy/US Marine Corps Award, and was promoted to the State Fair. Good luck at the State Fair, Ayana!
Read our new paper published in Frontiers in Microbiology
(2022-02-10)
Dow A, Burger A, Marcantonio E, and Prisic S (2022) Multi-Omics Profiling Specifies Involvement of Alternative Ribosomal Proteins in Response to Zinc Limitation in Mycobacterium smegmatis Front. Microbiol., 13:811774. doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2022.811774
Our three undergraduate students got UROP awards!
(2021-11-18)
Michaela and Mona have been awarded $9,998 from the Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP) for a project titled "Characterization of Hypothetical Protein, MSMEG_0370" and Jaymie will have $4980 for "Deletion of Zinc Independent Alternative Ribosomal Proteins in Mycobacterium smegmatis". Both projects will start in spring 2022. Congratulations!
Congratulation Allexa, Goodbye Gino!
(2021-08-13)
Today, the lab celebrated Allaxa's PhD (Prisic's group first!) and wished Gino good luck in his grad school at JABSOM. Sadly, due to the COVID numbers going up fast (1167 - the highest since the pandemic started!), we had a "zoom party" instead of meeting in person. Allexa and Jayna were sharing their paintings, sweaters and cute animals they made, and Gino looked back to his 1.5 years in the lab.
Leah and Ariana showcased their research
(2021-07-30)
Ariana and Leah, two summer interns from the University of Richmond, gave a presentation named "Deletion of Alternative ribosomal proteins in Mycobacterium smegmatis" at the 4th Annual Summer Undergraduate Research Experience (SURE) Symposium. You can read more about their research experience in the Prisic lab here.
Ayana's project wins awards!
(2021-05-25)
Ayana competed at the Hawaii State Science Fair and her project was awarded 3rd Place in the Microbiology category. She also got the state ISEF-affiliated award from the Society for In Vitro Biology. Congratulations Ayana and many thanks to Jayna for helping her obtain data for this project! You can read about Ayana's project here: High School Projects
Read our new paper in PLoS Pathogens
(2021-05-14)
Endrei got the GSO Award!
(2021-05-07)
The Graduate Student Organization Grants & Awards program gave Endrei $1800 to be used for studying infected macrophages. Congratulations!
Sladjana is recognized for her teaching
(2021-05-05)
Sladjana got the Presidential Citation for Meritorious Teaching. Read more about it here:
https://manoa.hawaii.edu/president/awards/
Allexa defended her PhD dissertation today!
(2021-04-23)
Allexa gave her public seminar last Monday and today she defended her dissertation. She will be graduating this summer. Congratulation Allexa!
Michaela and Kaile will be presenting at Tester
(2021-04-12)
Do not miss this awesome presentation at the Tester Symposium (April 20-23). Due to COVID-19, the meeting is virtual and their presentation is pre-recorded. Follow this link for more information:
Ayana's Science Fair project gets recognition
(2021-03-14)
Ayana's online poster was promoted to the State Science Fair and she was awarded overall Honorable Mention, Best in Category for Microbiology, and received special awards from the Society of In Vitro Biology and the U.S. Metric Association! Congratulations Ayana!
Michaela is accepted to Queen's Medical Center Summer Research Internship!
(2021-02-24)
Each year, the Queen's Medical Center Summer Research Internship selects 5 students to participate in a research project under the guidance of a Queen's mentor. The internship also includes a clinical shadowing component as well as didactic research education.
Beginning of the end (of this pandemic)
(2021-01-16)
Today, there was the first round of COVID-19 vaccination at the Mānoa campus. Sladjana got her shot and hopes that others will do the same, so we can finally beat this virus. (Pictures were not allowed, but she managed to take a picture of the poster at the entrance). Let's be grateful to all the scientists, health professionals, and policy makers for this great achievement!
Brandi Antonio - MS in Microbiology
(2020-12-18)
Brandi, pictured here on the LSB lanai on her last day as a graduate student, earned her MS degree in Microbiology and is leaving the Prisic lab. Since we had to cancel our party today (due to COVID-19), we hope to see her come back to properly celebrate sometimes soon. Congratulations, Brandi!
Jayna is now a grad student
(2020-8-24)
After graduating in May and working as a lab tach during the summer to help us move, Jayna is officially starting her MS study in Prisic Lab. (And, no, she will not do her research at the beach. She is assigned a different kind of bench in the lab. Sorry, Jayna!)
We moved to the Life Sciences Building (LSB)
(2020-7-29)
Moving the lab was hard, but exciting! We are at the very corner of the building, as shown on the picture. Our new space has the central area plus two procedure rooms, "chemical" room, and "instrument" room. "Fish room" on the 1st floor, just next to BIOL and MICR teaching labs.
Three of our lab members graduated today! Congratulations! (2020-5-16)
Chelsea Nicholas
BS - MBBE
Jayna Wong
BS - Biology
Colby Watase
BS - Microbiology
Allexa is awarded 2020 ARCS Koenig award in Microbiology!
(2020-5-4)
Achievement Rewards for College Students (ARCS® Foundation, Inc) is a national organization dedicated to supporting the best and brightest U.S. scholars by providing financial awards to academically outstanding students in science, engineering and medical research.
Jayna and Colby successfully finalized their UROP project
(2020-5-1)
Although their time in the lab has been cut short this semester (due to the pandemic, of course), Colby and Jayna worked so hard before the shutdown that they had no trouble finishing up the project. Awesome job!
Congratulations to Michela for her UROP Award!
(2020-4-14)
Michaela was awarded $4,974.75 for her research project starting next fall. She will study ribosome associated proteins.
First AimHI video goes public
(2020 - 4 - 4)
Michaela made a video to help high and middle school students learn about mitosis. Enjoy!
New Life Sciences Building
(2020 - 3 - 18)
Our lab will be moving to the new life sciences building soon! The new building is located next to Paradise Palms and Moore Hall. It is expected to be finished toward the end of spring 2020.
Ayana's Science Fair success!
(2020-2-8)
Ayana did great at the Honolulu District Science Fair and her project qualified for the Hawaii State Science and Engineering Fair that will be in April.