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Lab’s 1 year anniversary
By complete accident, Vlad wore the exact same shirt on the lab’s first anniversary as he did on the first day. The place looks quite a lot busier than before! For reference, here’s the photo from the exact same place one year ago:
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Inaugural lab BBQ is a success
The growing lab gets together for our first summer cookout, hopefully the first of many more to come! The informal bocce tournament is a hit.
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Gwen Woodbury
Undergraduate student, graduated in 2025. Next stop: dental school.
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Jacob Smith
Jacob is an OSU veteran, having earned a Bachelor’s in Biochemistry here before pursuing a PhD with the Ohio State Biochemistry Program. He has dabbled in research from virology to bioinorganic chemistry to synthetic biology and has now begun working on unraveling the mysteries of cell signaling, starting with the intrinsic signal attenuation of IRE1. […]
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Jacob joins the lab!
We’re super excited to welcome the second brave graduate student, Jacob Smith, into the lab! Jacob (photographed here after an exceedingly productive trip to the surplus department, second from the right) is a student in the OSBP program and will be unraveling the mysteries of eukaryotic stress signaling. Hurray!
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Swapnil (Neil) Mukherjee
Swapnil (Neil) Mukherjee came to OSU as a graduate student in the Chemistry and Biochemistry department with a master’s degree in chemistry and little experience in biology research. He is interested in using biophysical techniques to study the activation of IRE1 through oligomerization and the events that take place thereafter. Outside of the lab, he […]
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First brave grad student joins!
In a very special day for the lab, the first graduate student decides to join after completing all of his rotations! Swapnil (Neil) Mukherjee becomes one of the lab’s founding members. Can’t wait to see the wonderful things he’s going to achieve over the next few years!
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Your photo here
We are looking for new lab members! For information on how to apply, please see here. This photo of an Alaska marmot was taken by Vlad in the summer of 2011.
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Nick Bittel
Undergraduate student, graduated in 2023. Next stop: medical school.
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First experiments!
Despite still waiting on a whole bunch of equipment and reagents to arrive, we’re beginning to do some real benchwork. Here’s how (not) to measure out agar for LB plates before you get your chemical scoops delivered: And here’s Nick bravely loading a gel for the first time: