News

Mar 2026:

Charley wins the 3rd place poster award out of 48 posters at the Molecular Biosciences Graduate Student Organization symposium at Rutgers University-New Brunswick. Congratulations!

Dec 2025:

Tarandeep Dadyala, a student in the Molecular Biosciences Ph.D. program, starts his 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!

Sep 2025:

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

Aug 2025:

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

Jul 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.

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!

Apr 2025:

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

Mar 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!

Sep 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!

Aug 2024:

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

Jun 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.

May 2024:

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

Mar 2024:

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

Feb 2024:

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

Jan 2024:

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

Nov 2023:

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

Sep 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.