Lab News
2024
Alfonso Zavala-Salinas presenting at PathMaker Scholars Research Symposium
Alexa Gormick’s celebration at Little Dell Reservoir
Libby Mumby presenting at the Phosphorylation and G-Protein Mediated Signaling Networks Gordon Research Conference.
August 1st
Alfonso did a great job presenting his research on codon optimizing Sindbis virus capsid proteins to increase packaging efficacy at this year’s PathMaker Scholars Research Symposium. He will be taking his well-earned lab skills to the University of Idaho in the fall. Congrats on a successful summer of research and best of luck in college, Alfonso!
June 28th
Congratulations to Alexa Gormick on securing an internship at Octant, a drug discovery biotech company based in Emeryville, CA. The lab celebrated her new position with a picnic at Little Dell Reservoir. Best of luck, Alexa!
June 12th
Welcome back to our Pathmaker Scholar, Alfonso Zavala-Salinas! Alfonso is returning to the lab this summer to continue his work with Katie Rondem on optimizing our VEGAS platform.
June 10th
Libby Mumby was invited to give a talk at the 2024 Phosphorylation and G-Protein Mediated Signaling Networks Gordon Research Conference in Waterville Valley, New Hampshire where she presented her work on proximity labeling approaches for molecular pharmacology. Well done, Libby!
May 2nd
Libby Mumby passed her prelim exam today! She is now an official PhD candidate and is working on developing a method to profile the G beta-gamma effecterome. Congrats Libby!
March 29th
Congrats to our Bioinformatics Data Analyst, Sam Himes, on his new position at ARUP! Sam joined us as a master’s student and helped develop the analysis pipeline and data visualizer for the lab’s TRE-MPRA platform. We are excited to see what he does next at ARUP! Best of luck, Sam!
Libby Mumby passed her prelim!
2023
Alfonso Zavala-Salinas
Alexa Gormick
June 6th Lab Outing
August 3rd
Fun day supporting our Pathmaker scholar, Alfonso Zavala-Salinas, and undergraduate researcher, Alexa Gormick, as they presented their research at the University of Utah’s Undergraduate Research Summer Symposium. Great job, Alexa and Alfonso!
July 31st
We capped off our summer with another Park City lab outing, this time with a visit to the Park City Adventure Park
June 6th
The English Lab went on a lab outing in Park City to kickstart our summer and welcome a few new lab members, including Libby, Alfonso and Paris.
June 1st
Welcome to our new Pathmaker Scholar, Alfonso Zavala-Salinas! Alfonso is joining us through HCI’s Pathmaker summer research program and will be working with our lab manager, Katie Rondem, on a project investigating the role of glycoprotein mutations in Sindbis virus infectivity.
June 1st
Welcome new graduate student Libby Mumby!
May 10th
Braden Fallon passed his prelim exams with flying colors today and is now an official PhD candidate in the English lab! Congrats Braden!! Keep an eye out for his exciting work using extracellular peptide display methods for directed evolution.
May
Congrats to Ujjyani Ghosh on passing her qualifying exam and officially becoming a PhD candidate!
April 11th
Congrats to our undergraduate researcher, Alexa Gormick on being awarded a UROP scholarship to continue her research on developing TETR variants toward a mammalian repressilator. Way to go, Alexa!
2022
Ping Guo presenting at the GPCR Keystone Symposia
Yuan-En Sun, PhD Candidate
August 11th
After a super productive summer we took a week to reset, organize the lab, and have some fun! Donut Falls hike was spectacular.
July 12th
Nice perspective published by our graduate student Branden Fallon, on the recent fantastic work of Willow Coyote-Maestas, et al.
June
Welcome back to our Pathmaker Scholar, Mansoor Sadiq! Mansoor is going to continue his work with Adam Zahm on developing methods for unbiased sequencing of RNA virus genomes.
June
Welcome new graduate students Ujjyani Ghosh and Braden Fallon!
April
Welcome to visiting graduate student, Marin Matic! Marin is visiting from Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa in Italy and will be getting trained on how to implement the TRUPATH assay in his research on GPCR 55.
April 8th
Ping Guo presented at the GPCR Keystone Symposia at Snowbird, UT on her research on Mu-Opioid Receptor Variants. It was a great talk. Well done, Ping!
April 5th
Congratulations to Ping Guo and Yuan-En Sun on passing their qualifying exams and officially becoming PhD candidates!
Ping Guo, PhD Candidate
2021
Lauren’s goodbye lunch
Mansoor Sadiq, Pathmaker Scholar
November 22nd
Congratulations to our lab tech, Ciera Woods, on her decision to pursue graduate school. Ciera will be leaving the lab to travel before starting graduate school. Safe travels and good luck on your next chapter, Ciera!
September 21st
Congratulations to Lauren Lee on her new position at Recursion! We had a nice lab lunch at Vertical Diner to celebrate Lauren’s time in the lab and to wish her well in her new position. Best of luck, Lauren!
June 1st
Welcome new Pathmaker Scholar, Mansoor Sadiq! Mansoor is joining us through HCI’s Pathmaker summer research program and will be working with our research associate, Adam Zahm, to develop methods for unbiased sequencing of RNA virus genomes.
May 1st
Welcome new graduate student Ping Guo!
April 5th
Welcome new lab manager Katie Rondem!
April 1st
Welcome new graduate student Yuan-En Sun!