Meg takes top honor at 3rd year poster session

We are so proud of Meg Catterton for receiving the award of "Best Poster" at the annual 3rd-year PhD student Poster Session in the Department of Chemistry.  Meg presented her work on a device for local stimulation of tissue slices with a movable microfluidic port.  Following the poster session, she had the opportunity to present her work to the entire department in a celebratory seminar.  Great job Meg!  Look for her paper coming soon.

Congratulations also to the 2nd and 3rd place winners of a great poster session!

• 1st Place: Meg Catterton (Pompano lab)
• 2nd Place: Qian Liang (Cafiso lab)
• 3rd Place: Nicole Swope (Columbus lab) & Robert D'Ippolito (Hunt Lab)

Image credits:  Dr. Jim Demas

Andrew presents at Pittcon

PhD student Andrew Kinman represented our lab at Pittcon this year in Orlando in late February. He presented his exciting recent work in the Sunday poster session at this national gathering of analytical chemists.  Many thanks to those who offered feedback on his project, a microfluidic device for optimization of protein derivatization reactions.  We look forward to publishing his work in a few months! 

Austin advances to PhD candidacy

Congratulations to Austin for successfully completing his PhD candidacy exam in February!  We look forward to seeing all you accomplish.

Celebration after PhD qualifying exams were over! 

Photo credit:  Prof. Jim Demas

Welcome Aruna and Paola

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.

Dr. Ashley Ross Featured in C&E News

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!

Welcome Austin!

The Pompano lab is happy to welcome Austin Dunn as a new first year graduate student!  Welcome to the lab and we all look forward to working with you!

Paper Publication!

Congrats to Dr. Ashley Ross, Maura Belanger, and Jacob Woodroof for publishing the first paper of the Pompano Lab.  The paper is entitled "Spatially resolved microfluidic stimulation of lymphoid tissue ex vivo" and can be found by clicking the link.  This paper is published in The Analyst.

Welcome Hannah Freeman!

The Pompano lab is participating in a new summer research opportunity, the First Year Research Experience (FYRE).  This program gives underclassmen from underrepresented groups in the sciences an opportunity to experience research early in their collegiate careers.   Through this program we welcome Hannah Freeman of Dillard University in New Orleans!  We look forward to all the great work you'll do this summer Hannah!

For more information about the FYRE program please click here

Dr. Ashley Ross Selected for AAI Postdoctoral Fellowship

Dr. Ashley Ross has been selected for postdoctoral funding through a 2016 AAI Careers in Immunology Fellowship to Prof. Pompano!  This program from the American Association of Immunologists supports the career development of AAI members and trainees.  This award focus on a new project at the interface of microfluidics and neuroimmunology. Congrats Ashley!

Welcome Dr. Sangjo Shim!

The Pompano lab is pleased to welcome Dr. Sangjo Shim!  Sangjo comes to the lab with a rich background in biomedical engineering and microfluidics expertise.  He earned his Ph.D. in 2014 from the Univeristy of Texas, Austin school of biomedical engineering.  Welcome to the lab!