Lab News:
Year 2025
5/15/2025 Zisha received a AD/ADRD Scholar from KIHA, big congrats!
5/15/2025 We welcome visiting student Yanakamin Phomcharoen from Walailak University, Thailand. He will conduct his internship in our lab this summer, Welcome!
4/15/2025 We received a grant from the DU PROF program to support our research!
3/18/2025 Three of our undergraduates, Isabel, Ethan, and Annie, received the Pins Grant for their spring quarter research. Congratulations to everyone!
2/7/2025 Sara Nerad, a first-year biophysics program graduate student, started rotation in the lab. Welcome Sara!
1/15/2025 We received a grant from the DU Incentive program to support our research!
1/8/2025 Annie London, a second-year undergraduate student, joined the lab as a research assistant. Welcome, Annie!
Year 2024
1/9/2024 Anna Dymov, a third-year undergraduate student, joined the lab as a research assistant. Welcome Anna!
1/12/2024 We have our new cell culture hood installed!
1/24/2024 We have our Leica microscope installed! Also many thanks to KIHA for providing a nice dark-painted microscope room!
1/30/2024 We have Licor Western Imager set up!
1/31/2024 Olivia officially joined the lab after her rotation! Our very first graduate student!
5/07/2024 Olivia received a AD/ADRD Scholar from KIHA, big congrats!
5/07/2024 Three of our undergraduates, Isabel, Ethan, and Anna, received the summer research fellowship from URC, Congratulations to everyone!
6/07/2024 Karina Gasparyan, a second-year undergraduate student, joined the lab as a research assistant. Welcome Karina!
6/15/2024 We welcome two visiting students, Sujiwan Laisuwannachat and Tavisa Boonsit, from Walailak University, Thailand. They will conduct their internship in our lab this summer, Welcome!
6/17/2024 Chris Woo, a high school student, joined the lab for a summer internship. Welcome Chris!
6/24/2024 Zhihao Wu, a master student from PSM program, joined the lab for summer research. Welcome Zhihao!
6/24/2024 Noah Hilek, a high school student, joined the lab as a intern through the SHINE program. Welcome Noah!
7/25/2024 Chris, Noah, and Zhihao finished their summer internship. They has made great contribution to our research, and we thank their hard work over this summer! Chris and Noah will return back their high school study, and Zhihao will head to his medical school study in Tulane University. Good Luck everyone!
8/5/2024 Olivia successfully passed her qualify exam , big congrats!
8/6/2024 Zisha Lao, a first-year biology program graduate student, joined in the lab. Welcome Zisha!
8/15/2024 Sujiwan Laisuwannachat and Tavisa Boonsit successfully finished their internship. They will be back Thailand to finish their last year of undergraduate courses. We wish you all the best!
8/23/2024 Isabel, Aiden, and Anna finished their URC summer research fellowship! Everyone did amazing work over this summer and we have made great progress in multiple projects! Thank you everyone for your hard work! Isabel and Anna will continue their work during the school year, and Aiden will be going to the UK for exchange this fall quarter; enjoy!
11/1/2024 Rosie Jump, a second-year undergraduate student, joined the lab as a research assistant. Welcome Rosie!
12/1/2024 Anna officially graduated early from DU with a Bachelor of Science in Molecular Biology with minors in Chemistry and Russian Language. Big congrats! We are so proud of you!
12/20/2024 We received an FRF grant from DU to support our research!
Year 2023
9/1/2023 Yang lab goes live in the University of Denver!
9/26/2023 Aiden Lee, a second-year undergraduate student, joined the lab as a research assistant. Welcome Aiden!
10/25/2023 Isabel Woo, a second-year undergraduate student, joined the lab as a research assistant. Welcome Isabel!
11/9/2023 Ethan Staub, a second-year undergraduate student, joined the lab as a research assistant. Welcome Ethan!
11/13/2023 Olivia Evans, a first-year biophysics program graduate student, started rotation in the lab. Welcome Olivia!
12/8/2023 After three months set-up, we finally started to run some real experiments! In the last whole week, Olivia got the first PCR, and the first yeast stable transformation work! Big congrats!