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Jacob Passes Candidacy!
We’re very proud to announce that Jacob has passed his candidacy exam! He says he’s enjoying the relief after the long process and will be celebrating with a trip to New York. When he gets back, he’ll be diving head first into his big plans!
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Nichole Presents Her Work
Nichole is presenting her lab work today at a poster session to mark the end of her time with us. She’s been working with Neil to investigate the RNase function of optogenetically controlled IRE1, and will be returning to her undergraduate program soon. We’ll be sad to see her go, but we wish her all […]
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James receives the MBTP fellowship!
We’re all thrilled to have a biophysicist-in-training in our group! James (pictured below in his natural habitat, in front of the microscope control computer) just received the prestigious Molecular Biophysics Training Program (MBTP) fellowship, which will support him for 1 to 2 years and help him integrate into the greater biophysics community on campus.
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The Interdisciplinary Graduate Programs Symposium
We had a great day of science at the annual IGP Symposium, and Daisy represented our lab at the poster session with this being her first poster for the lab! She discussed her work on the optogenetic manipulation of Eph receptor oligomerization.
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Neil Passes Candidacy!
Congratulations to Neil on passing his candidacy exam and becoming the first new PhD candidate of the lab! He’s choosing to celebrate by jumping right back into his lab work, but of course the cake comes first.
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Adalyn and James Join the Lab!
The more the merrier, welcome to the lab! Adalyn Brown is an MCDB Graduate student planning to study signaling mechanisms of plasma membrane receptors, and James Alltop is an OSBP graduate student planning to tackle the challenges of studying oligomeric transitions of highly abundant proteins inside living cells.
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First Lab Conference: Biophysical Society!
Vlad, Neil, and Jacob went to the Biophysical Society meeting in Philadelphia, the first conference trip for the lab! Neil and Vlad both presented their first posters for the lab, and they all enjoyed the amazing science (and the great Philly food!). Bonus photo: Vlad doesn’t like to take photos in front of posters…
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Pia joins the lab!
The lab is happy to welcome Pia Delouri! She is a Molecular Genetics undergraduate student here to help out and learn about cell culture and cloning methods.
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Daisy joins the lab!
We are all super excited to welcome Daisy Alvarado, a Biophysics graduate student, to the group! Daisy will be studying the regulation of plasma membrane receptors by oligomerization.
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Group meetings are growing…
With the arrival of new rotation students, the joint Belyy-Wilburn lab meetings are getting more and more exciting… We’re going to need a bigger room!