January 2026
- Congrats to Julia! Paper accepted at ACS Chem. Biol. this past week!
December 2025
- Congrats to Tanya, Zach, Amelia, Kevin, and all of our collaborators in the Liu lab! OrthoRep manuscropt was accepted at ACS Chem Biol today! Read it here!
- Bosco and Baela officially joined the lab! Welcome!
November 2025
- Congrats to lab alums Mariana and Lila, and our collaborators in the Digman lab! ESPRESSO manuscript has been published in Nature Methods! Read it here!
October 2025
- Congrats to Tanya! She was selected to present at the annual Amgen Day at their headquarters in Thousand Oaks!
- We defended our title as the SCBC pumpkin decorating contest champion! Check it out here!
September 2025
- Congrats to Tanya! She was selected for a department conference travel award this year!
- Congrats to Julia! She won the best poster award at the UC Chemical Symposium!
- We had a great time at Corona del Mar for our summer outing! Feel free to check out the photos here.
- Congrats to Amelia! She was invited to present at the Gulf Coast Undergraduate Research Symposium (at Rice U) this fall!
August 2025
- Congrats to Renee and Casey! Both won best poster awards at the SoCal Undergrad Research Symposium. Way to crush it!
- Congrats to Julia! She was selected for a talk at the UC Chemical Symposium next month!
July 2025
- Happy 15th birthday to the lab!
- Manuscript accepted at ACS Chem Biomed Imaging. Congrats to alums Alicia, Zach, and Kat, along with our collaborators in the Mills lab! More to come!
- Congrats to Halley and lab alums Sharon and Kelly! Their manuscript on fluorogenic coumarins activated by bioorthogonal reactions was published! Read it here!
June 2025
- Congrats to lab alum Rachel, who is now officially tenured at Syracuse U. Way to go, Prof. Steinhardt!
May 2025
- Congrats to Allie and Melody, our two new Ph.D. candidates in the lab!
- Lila defended her thesis! Congratulations Dr. Halbers!
- Congrats to Lila! Winner of Pharm Sci’s Excellence in Research award!
April 2025
- Lila and our RNA lanterns were featured on Sandra Tsing Loh’s NPR show! You can listen to it here.
March 2025
- Congrats to lab alumna Sharon! She accepted an analytical R&D position at AbbVie!
- Congrats to Lila! She accepted a postdoctoral fellowship with Bausch + Lomb.
February 2025
- Graduate students Erica, Brenden, and Taylor officially joined the lab! Welcome!
January 2025
- Our RNA lanterns were featured on NPR! Science Friday invited Jenn as a segment guest. Tune in here.
- Welcome Yuan, our new postdoctoral researcher!
- Happy holidays! We celebrated with a fun holiday group lunch at Javier’s in Crystal Cove.