We’re thrilled to welcome our first graduate students Messi Haile and Jing Cheng to the lab! Messi is a student in the Microbiology and Immunology program and Jing is a student in the Cellular and Molecular Physiology & Biophysics Program.

Congrats to our undergrads, Panos, Emerson, Elise, Xiyan, and Elynn, who all won Columbia Summer Funding Awards to support their research in our lab this summer! Emerson, Elise, and Xiyan won awards through Summer@SEAS, and Panos and Elynn through the Columbia College Summer Funding Program.

Our veteran undergrads, Angel, Anjali, and Tina, all got into exciting internship programs for the summer! Tina is doing an internship in Regulatory Affairs at LEXEO Therapeutics here in NYC, Anjali is off to Santa Clara, CA for an internship in Consumable Devices at Roche Sequencing Solutions, and Angel is interning in Fiji!

Congrats! We’re excited for all of you and looking forward to hearing all about it when you get back!

We’re excited to welcome five new Undergraduate Research Assistants to the lab this summer! Emerson, Elise, and Xiyan are incoming sophomores in the School of Engineering, and Panos and Elynn are incoming seniors in Columbia College.