2018 News

Sabrina was chosen to attend the NeuroNex MBL Practicum for Undergraduates this spring. Congratulations!
First year students Mariana Navarro and Robby Dorn officially join the lab. Welcome!

MCP rotation students Maj Krumberger and Diana Carreno join the lab for the fall quarter. Welcome!
Undergraduate researcher Danika Ferguson joins the lab. Welcome!
Drew was awarded the Medical Research Postdoctoral Fellowship from the George Hewitt Foundation. Congrats!
Dave’s work on cyclopropenethiones was published in Organic Letters. Congrats Dr. Row!

MB&B rotation student Julia DeRogatis joins the lab for the Fall Quarter. Welcome!
Brendan successfully defends his thesis. He has accepted a research scientist position at Akeagen. Congratulations Dr. Zhang!
Dave successfully defends his thesis! He will pursue his postdoctoral studies at Merck. We will miss you, Dr. Row!
Undergraduate researcher Sabrina Tran and rotation student Zach Engfer join the lab. Welcome!

Nima and Danica were both awarded Allergan and UROP summer research fellowships! Congratulations!
Zane was awarded the ACS Polymer Education Organic Chemistry Award and the American Institute of Chemists Student Award at the UCI Department of Chemistry Award Ceremony. Keep up the stellar work!
Our review on recent advances in bioluminescence imaging was published in Current Opinion in Chemical Biology. Congratulations Zi and Brendan!
MB&B rotation student Rodger de Miranda, Marya Ornelas from Claremont Colleges, and Sreekar Kasturi from Northwood High School join the lab for the summer. Welcome!
Zach is onto bigger and better things, and accepted a research scientist position at UES in Dayton, OH! It was a pleasure working with you in the lab!

Undergraduate researcher Buvan Sathishkumar joins the lab. Welcome!
Colin was awarded the 2018 Edward K. C. Lee award, the highest honor awarded to a graduate student in the chemistry department at UCI. Congratulations Colin!
Colin successfully defends his thesis! He will pursue his postdoctoral studies with Amy Palmer at the University of Colorado, Boulder. We will miss you Dr. Rathbun!
Dave was selected to present his research at the ACS Division of Organic Chemistry Graduate Research Symposium. Keep crushing it Dave!
Our review on developing new bioorthogonal reactions was published in Accounts of Chemical Research. Congratulations Dave!

Our collaboration with the Thorpe lab on using Gaussia luciferase to monitor protein folding was published in Protein Science!
Undergrad researcher Kevin Jung and MB&B rotation student Jean-Louis Bru join the lab. Welcome!
Carly won an NSF GRFP honorable mention! Congrats!
Sierra was named an NSF GRFP fellow! Congratulations, Sierra!

Sean won best chemical biology/biochemistry oral presentation at the UC Chemical Symposium this year.
Kevin Ng officially joins the lab. Welcome!
Sean was awarded a travel grant from the ACS Biol Division for the upcoming ACS National Meeting in New Orleans. Congrats!
Dave was awarded the Genentech Graduate Student Award. He will be presenting his research at the Genentech Graduate Student Symposium in Chemical Research in May. Congratulations Dave!

Drew Ferreira from the Beaudry lab at OSU joins us for his postdoctoral studies. Welcome to the lab!
Our latest work on the pyridone-luciferin scaffold was published in ChemBioChem. Congrats Brendan, Krysten, and Dave (McCutcheon)!
Zi was awarded an ACS Biol Division travel grant to attend the ACS National Meeting in New Orleans. Congratulations!

Colin was selected to present his work at the Junior Scientist Workshop on Protein Engineering held at the Janelia Research Campus. Nicely done!
Jenn’s introductory course to chemical biology was featured in the Educational and Outreach Projects from the Cottrell Scholars Collaborative Undergraduate and Graduate Education. Check it out!
Undergrad researchers Nima, Zane, and Paola were awarded UROP fellowships for 2018. Congratulations!
MCP rotation student Kevin Ng joins the lab. Welcome!