The Pompano lab is growing. We welcomed Aruna Sastri and Paola Covarrubias this semester. Aruna is earning her Masters degree in Chemistry this year and plans to work on novel methods to study lymphocytes in action. Paola is a first-year undergraduate who joins us from Dallas, Texas. She plans to work on methods to keep lymph node tissue alive in culture -- hopefully for weeks at a time! Good luck to both of them.
Congratulations to former post-doc Ashley Ross who was featured in C&E news this week! The article describes her work done in our lab to use a new microfluidic system to measure diffusion of proteins through living tissue.
Click the link below for the full story:
http://acsmeetings.cenmag.org/watching-immune-proteins-and-therapeutics-diffuse-through-lymph-nodes/
We wish Ashley the best of luck at her new appointment as an Assistant Professor at the University of Cinncinatti Ohio!
Everyone has done some great work this summer and we have really made some great progress towards our lab goals! We have all learned a lot of new skills and have some cool new instruments, including a brand new Zeiss Zoom! We are all looking forward to the new school year and to continuing the work we have started this summer.
Using the Zoom
The Zoom
The Summer Researchers
Group Picture
Lymph node cake
The Pompano group had a party at Professor Pompano's house to celebrate the end of the year, complete with a lymph node cake!
Its been a great first year for the lab, and we look forward for the great work we will be doing this summer and in the upcoming years!
Lab members enjoying the playground
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Lab summit, Feb 2020
Group Picture, 2016