News

Summer 2025
Grace Dodd (as a Beckman Scholar) and Stephanie Aiddoo are keeping things running during Wellesley's Summer Research Program. We're also collaborating closely with Elmore lab members Sara Maeve Klingensmith and Clare Gibson

Spring 2025
Welcome to our newest lab members Marina West, Fatima Islam, Gahan Sabbir, and Yahana Streeter!
Grace Dodd presented her Darling Lab Research at the annual ASBMB conference, completed her honors thesis, and graduated!
Tenzin Yangchen graduated!
Stephanie Aiddoo and Ilhman Matiker presented their Sophomore Early Research Program (SERP) projects at Wellesley's Ruhlman Conference.

Fall 2024
Welcome to our newest lab members Ilham Matiker and Stephanie Aiddoo
Congrats to Francis  Tapia on graduating from Wellesley College; we will miss you!
Grace Dodd presented her Darling Lab Research  at the UMBC McNair conference  in September

June 2024 -- Grace Dodd and Eva Pawlowska are doing great things in the Darling lab during the 2024 Summer Research Program

May 2024 -- Summer Chen, Christelle Gilot, Mela Nebiyeloul, Alicia Padilla, and Riley Sheldon are graduates! It was a pleasure to work with each of you. Keep the Darling lab in the loop as you pursue new adventures and passions!

May 2024 -- Alicia Padilla, Summer Chen, and Riley Sheldon have all successfully completed their honors theses in Biochemistry. Huge claps for all!

April 2024 -- Members of the Darling Lab and a large Wellesley group attended DiscoverBMB (the annual conference of the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

March 2024 -- Grace Dodd has been selected as a Beckman Scholar for 24-25. Congrats!

September 2023 -- Welcome to all our lab members for the '23-'24 academic year: Alicia, Mela, Riley, Summer, Francis, Grace, Yangchen, Eva, Mallika, and Morgan

July 2023-June 2024 -- Louise is on a research sabbatical for the '23-'24 academic year

June 2023  -- Alicia Padilla, Summer Chen (welcome!), and Riley Sheldon are working hard in the Darling lab during our 2023 Summer Research Program

April 2023 -- The lab was awarded an AHA-AIREA grant for two years of support

January 2023 -- Welcome to the lab Alicia Padilla and Riley Sheldon

May 2023 -- Congratulations to our newest graduates: Haley Haines, Michelle Jung, Caden Rijal, and Cookie Uberoy

June 2022 -- Ayato Shigihara and Jacqueline Ngo are working in the 2022 Summer Research Program on our HHMI-funded initative to increase inquiry and inclusivity in our BISC/BIOC 220: Cell Biology laboratory series

December 2021 --  Louise has been recommended for tenure at Wellesley College. Thanks to everyone who engaged in and contributed to our research as well as all those who provided mentorship and support. I appreciate you!

April 2021 -- Louise is a co-author on a new publication in Microorganisms. https://www.mdpi.com/2076-2607/9/5/976 

April 2021 -- An educational activity developed in BISC/BIOC 220 is published in CourseSource. https://doi.org/10.24918/cs.2021.16

January 2021 --  Our paper is accepted at BBA-Biomembranes. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33444623/. Congratulations to all alumnae whose research contributed to this work: Medeea Popescu, Yeon Lee, Stephanie Kim, Heidi Wade, and Amanda Papakyrikos