Jenn has been awarded a prestigious biotechnology training grant. This grant's purpose is to transform strong graduate students into exceptional scientists through both scientific and career training, including the opportunity for a summer internship at a biotechnology company! The funding for this grant comes through the NIGMS at the NIH.
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Congratulations to Drake Dixon!
One of our very talented undergraduate students, Drake Dixon, has been awarded both a nanoSTAR fellowship and a College Science Scholar's award for his work this summer. His project is entitled "Utilizing boron nanoparticles to develop a novel immunometabolism assay." This work will be in collaboration with the Fraser lab here at UVA.
Congrats Andrew and Maura
Congratulations to Andrew and Maura for passing their second year candidacy exams!! These exams include written and verbal portions and are required for all PhD candidates.
NanoSTAR Mixer Poster Presentation
Jacob recently presented a poster at the nanoSTAR undergraduate/faculty mixer event on UVA grounds. His poster was entitled "Assessing the Viability and Functionality of Murine Lymph Node Slices" and highlighted his great work over last summer and this past year.
More information about the nanoSTAR institute can be found on our "Affiliations" page
Double Hoo Award
Congrats to Ben and Maura for being awarded a Double Hoo Research Grant through the Center for Undergraduate Excellence at the University of Virginia! This prestigious award will allow them to continue working together on a project entitled: Visualization and Quantification of Immune Responses in Lymph Nodes. They look forward to being able to work together this coming summer to complete this project. More information can be found in the related UVA Today news article.
Welcome New Students!
As we start the new semester we would like to welcome three new graduate students! Welcome Meg Catterton, Lexy Chernish, and Jen Ortiz! We look forward to the great work that they will accomplish in the next few years.
CSS Symposium
Recently one of our undergrads, Drake Dixon, has presented his summer research to the members of the College Science Scholars Program. He talked about the work he has done on immunometabolism. For more information about the CSS program click the link below:
http://sciencescholars.clas.virginia.edu
Welcome Summer Researchers
The Pompano group would like to welcome three new members to the group this summer.
Drake Dixon and Ben Groff both rising second years at the University of Virginia and Ziad Shafi a rising second year at the University of Richmond.
We look forward to the great work they and all the group members will accomplish in our first summer of research at UVA!
Welcome Andrew Kinman and Maura Belanger
Andrew and Maura join as the group's first graduate students! Both come with a strong background in biochemistry and analytical chemistry, and a desire to do research that has an impact. Welcome Andrew and Maura!
Welcome Shara Fuller, Ray Ramirez, and Jacob Woodroof
These three brave undergraduates joined the lab even before it started! Now they are learning the fundamental techniques and principles and will help get the first experiments going.
