Van Arnam Lab

Lab News

August 2024: The group goes to Madera Canyon, Arizona for a week of ant collecting and bacterial isolation. So many ants (and other insects)!

June 2024: Athena, Jisue, and Riva begin a summer of research in the lab

June 2024: Welcome to Hailey Kang, who joins the lab as a full-time Research Technician!

June 2024: Ethan gets tenure and is promoted to Associate Professor!

April 2024: We are awarded a National Institutes of Health R15 grant (R15GM147873) for ecologically-inspired antibiotic discovery work!

January 2024: Welcome to new lab members Athena Ke (Scripps '27), Caitlin Niiya (Pitzer '26), and Riva Guo (Scripps '26)!

December 2023: Congratulations to Joyce Kim, who graduates from CMC!

August 2023: Jisue Choi (CMC '26) joins the lab. Welcome!

August 2023: Anna, Antara, Carmen, and Maya present their research at the American Chemical Society National Meeting in San Francisco

June 2023: Antara and Maya begin a summer of research in the lab

May 2023: Congratulations to our graduates Arjun, Aman, Juan, Katie, and Shea!! Stay in touch!

April 2023: Joyce wins a Goldwater Scholarship! You are so deserving and we are so immensely proud of you!

January 2023: Welcome to Antara Mallick (Scripps '25), our newest member of the lab!

January 2023: Our ECO-0501 paper has been published in Applied & Environmental Microbiology! Congratulations to Joyce, Georgia, Shea, Krithika, and Carmen!

August 2022: Joyce and Katie present their research at the American Chemical Society National Meeting in Chicago

June 2022: Our nocamycin paper has been published in ACS Chemical Biology! Congratulations to Katie, Rose, Elisabeth, Janet, Steph, and Arjun! It's exciting to see all of your hard work appear in print.

May 2022: Congratulations to our graduates, Elisabeth and Ananya! We will miss you!! We are also celebrating lab alum Rose Kim who is graduating salutatorian of her class at Columbia!

January 2022: Welcome to new lab members Anna Ermoian (Scripps '25), Carmen Puentes Flores (Scripps '25), Maya Lobo (Scripps '25)! 

August 2021: Aman, Joyce, Katie, and Shea present at the UC Irvine SoCal Undergraduate Research Symposium. Joyce wins a poster award for her presentation!!

June 2021: Welcome to new lab members Aman Ahmed (Pitzer '23), Joyce Kim (CMC '24), Katie Hansen (Scripps '23), and Shea Lumpkin (Scripps '23)! This crew begins a summer of IN PERSON research in the lab.

May 2021: Congratulations to our graduates, Janet and Steph! We will miss you!

April 2021: Steph and Janet present at the American Chemical Society National Meeting

June 2020: The lab moves online: Arjun, Janet, Juan, and Steph start a summer of research working remotely.

May 2020: Congratulations to our graduates Lauren Longo (Scripps) and Georgia Scherer (CMC)! We will miss you so much and wish we could celebrate in person.

January 2020: Welcome to new lab members Arjun Deol (Pitzer '23), Stephanie Lewis (CMC '21), and Juan Santos (Pitzer '23)!

January 2020: Our thiopeptide defense paper has been published in the Journal of Natural Products. A huge congratulations to Preston, Krithika, Lauren, Elisabeth, and Georgia!

September 2019: Welcome to new lab member Janet Tran (CMC '21)!

August 2019: Georgia and Ethan present at the American Chemical Society National Meeting in San Diego.

August 2019: A preprint of our thiopeptide defense paper is now available on ChemRxiv.

May 2019: Ananya, Elisabeth, and Georgia begin a summer of research in the lab.

May 2019: Congratulations to our graduates Preston Chang (Pitzer), Keon Rabbani (Pitzer), and Krithika Rao (Scripps). Best of luck and stay in touch!

May 2019: Krithika wins the McClintock award for best Scripps College science thesis! Congratulations!

April 2019: Elisabeth, Rose, Lauren, Preston, and Keon present their research at the American Chemical Society's Southern California Undergraduate Research Conference (SCURC)

January 2019:  Welcome to new lab members Ananya Koneti (CMC '22), Elisabeth Lawton (Scripps '21), and Georgia Scherer (CMC '20)!

December 2018: Congratulations to Keon, Krithika, and Preston for successfully completing their senior theses!

August 2018: Our research is profiled in a Scripps College news article. 

July 2018: The group travels to New Mexico and to the Southwestern Research Station in Arizona for the lab's first collecting trip.

May 2018: Keon, Krithika, Preston, and Rose begin a summer of research in the lab.

April 2018: Ethan is awarded a Research Starter Grant from the American Society of Pharmacognosy!

January 2018: The first group of students joins the lab! Welcome to Keon Rabbani (Pitzer '19), Krithika Rao (Scripps '19), Lauren Longo (Scripps '20), Preston Chang (Pitzer '19), and Rose Kim (Pitzer '21).