News

September 2023

Tina joins Rutgers University as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Molecular Biology & Biochemistry, and Resident Faculty member of the Center for Advanced Biotechnology & Medicine.

November 2023

Tina becomes a member of the Early Career Review (ECR) Board at the Journal of Biological Chemistry (JBC).

January 2024

Mikayla Kim and Shady Harfouche join the lab as undergraduate researchers. Welcome!

February 2024

Charley Baker, a Molecular Biosciences PhD student, starts her rotation in our lab. Welcome!

March 2024

Devanshi Patel joins the lab as a part-time laboratory assistant. Welcome!

May 2024

Charley Baker officially joins the lab as our first graduate student!

June 2024

Welcome (or welcome back) to our summer students, Carly Drobbin and Shady Harfouche! Carly is participating in the CABM Summer Undergraduate Research Experience (SURE) program and Shady is participating in the Aresty Summer Science and CABM SURE programs.

Aug 2024

Shady and Carly give poster presentations at the CABM SURE symposium and Aresty Summer Science symposiums.

Sept 2024

Suhani Kunam joins our lab as a laboratory technician/assistant. She comes to us from SUNY Purchase College, where she graduated with a B.A. in Chemistry and minor in Biology this past spring. Welcome!

March 2025:

Nick Bartlett, a freshman at Rutgers University-New Brunswick, has been matched to our lab through the Aresty Summer Science 2025 program and will be joining the lab in May. Welcome!

April 2025

Tina receives a MIRA (R35) award from NIGMS to support our research on understanding how CRISPR-associated signaling pathways work.

May 2025

Carly Drobbin, now a sophomore MBB major at Rutgers University-New Brunswick, received a Division of Life Sciences Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (DLS-SURF) to support her summer research in our lab. Congrats!

July 2025

Michael Vazquez Soba, a 2025 graduate of the Master’s in Biomedical Science program at Rutgers University, joins the lab as a Laboratory Research Assistant. Welcome to the lab!

Nick and Carly, undergraduate students, give poster presentations at the CABM SURE and Aresty Summer Science symposiums.

Aug 2025

Carly gives a poster presentation at the DLS-SURF symposium.

Sep 2025

Ana Claudia Samaniego Villacis, a student in the Molecular Biosciences Ph.D. program, starts her graduate rotation in our lab. Welcome!

Oct 2025

Cassie Correa, a student in the Microbial Biology Ph.D. program, starts her graduate rotation in our lab. Welcome!