News

12.18.2024

Jonathan defends his thesis and has the distinction of the first ever PhD from the lab! Congratulations!!!

11.22.2024

Annual friendsgiving celebration!

09.20.2024

We ❤️ our postdocs! Happy postdoc appreciation week!

08.30.2024

We bid farewell to Elizabeth Mensah, our ChEM-H postbac fellow! Wishing you all the best for your future!

08.12.2024

Timothy Precord joins the lab for his postdoctoral studies! Tim is joint with the Thiam lab in BioE and M&I. Welcome, Tim!

07.12.2024

Casey is awarded a Diversity Supplement by NIGMS to support her collaborative work with the Fordyce lab! Congratulations!

07.01.2024

The lab receives an R01 from NHLBI to develop chemical tools that modulate BCL11A! The lab also receives a supplement from NIGMS to purchase a mass spec capable of ionizing sterols!

06.07.2024

It is bittersweet to celebrate undergraduate researchers Hannah Oo and Anushri Tiwari as they graduate with BS in Biology, and also our research associate Reena Dosanjh as she prepares to leave for graduate school.

06.06.2024

Poulami and Laura’s Preview in Cell about gut microbes that make a neuroactive signal is published! Read the Preview here.

04.10.2024

Isaac passes his qualifying exam! Congratulations!

04.01.2024

Sandra Ordonez-Rubiano joins the lab for her postdoctoral studies. Welcome, Sandra!

03.25.2024

We welcome Sophia Manukian (Biochemistry) for a rotation!

01.16.2024

We welcome Alyssa Carter (M&I) for a rotation!

10.16.2023

Liting’s, Hannah’s, and Jonathan’s article on bacterial sterol transporters is now published under eLife’s new model! Read the article here.

10.16.2023

The lab welcomes Matt Brockley (Chemistry) for a rotation!

10.02.2023

Sebastian joins the lab for his Master’s degree in Chemistry! Welcome!

09.20.2023

Casey passes her candidacy exam! Congratulations!

07.17.2023

Laura is named a MAC3 Impact Philanthropies Faculty Fellow! Congratulations!

07.05.2023

Shadler (Chemistry & ChEM-H CBI) joins the group for her PhD studies! Welcome!

07.01.2023

The lab is awarded a NIH R35 grant to investigate lipid trafficking in bacteria!

06.18.2023

Congratulations to Waymon and Nia for graduating with bachelors degrees in Human Biology and Chemistry, respectively! We are proud of your accomplishments!

05.26.2023

Congratulations to Anushri and Hannah for receiving VPUE summer fellowships through the Chemistry department!

05.25.2023

We are excited that Isaac Paddy (Chemical & Systems Biology, ChEM-H CBI, NSF GRFP) has decided to join us for his PhD studies! Welcome!

05.09.2023

Mekedlawit is the recipient of a Stanford DARE fellowship! Congratulations!

4.24.2023

The lab welcomes Shadler Nguyen (Chemistry & ChEM-H CBI) for her Spring rotation!

3.23.2023

Warmer weather and sunnier days are upon us so that means Happy Hours are back!

2.27.2023

We are thrilled to have Casey Decosto (Chemistry & ChEM-H CBI) join the team for her PhD studies! Welcome!

12.01.2022

The lab has our second annual Friendsgiving @ ChEM-H

12.01.2022

Jeandele passes her quals! Congratulations!

12.01.2022

The lab welcomes Isaac Paddy (Chemical & Systems Biology) for his Spring rotation! Welcome!

11.07.2022

Reena Dosanjh joins us as a Life Science Research Professional I! Welcome!

10.30.2022

Paul takes a position as Scientist at Trilink Biotechnologies in San Diego! Congratulations and good luck!

10.03.2022

Poulami Chatterjee joins us as a post-doctoral fellow! Welcome!

09.01.2022

Laura is appointed as Assistant Professor of Microbiology and Immunology in the School of Medicine - congratulations!

08.19.2022

The lab celebrates the end of summer with lunch at Coconuts in Palo Alto! Grateful for the research contributions of all team members, especially our undergraduate researchers!

06.21.2022

We are sad to say “goodbye” to Alexia, but are thrilled that she is on her way to a career is science communication!

06.08.2022

Congratulations to Fangfang, Mekedlawit, and Liting on a pre-print reporting the use of nanobodies to reactivate fetal hemoglobin! Read the pre-print here.

06.01.2022

Congratulations to Jeandele for receiving a Stanford Graduate Fellowship!

05.30.2022

We are thrilled to have Jeandele join the team for her PhD studies! Welcome!

05.19.2022

The lab welcomes Jeandele Elliot (Chemical Engineering) for a rotation!

05.17.2022

The group’s first ever pre-print on the discovery and characterization of THREE new families of sterol transporters is now on BioXriv! Congrats to Liting and Hannah! Read the pre-print here.

04.18.2022

Waymon, Anushri, Hannah, and Nia have all been awarded fellowships to support their summer research! Congratulations!

01.28.2022

Fangfang received travel awards from Stanford Bio-X and the Division of Biological Chemistry to support her attendance at the ACS Spring Meeting. Congratulations!

01.15.2022

The lab had our annual White Elephant gift exchange at Laura’s house!

08.07.2021

The lab welcomes new postdoctoral fellow Paul Ludford! We also welcome graduate students Casey Decosto (Chemistry) and Sam Bollinger (Cancer Biology) for summer rotations!

07.22.2021

Lisha passes her candidacy exam! Congratulations!

07.16.2021

Veronica’s last day! She will be continuing her education at UC Berkely as a Ph.D. Student in Chemistry.

07.01.2021

Jonathan passes his candidacy exam! Congratulations!

06.24.2021

Lisha is accepted into the Molecular Pharmacology Training Program. Congratulations!

06.13.2021

Alexia graduates with a Bachelor of Science in Chemistry! Congratulations! Alexia will work with us as a Research Associate for the next year.

06.11.2021

Laura is named the David Huntington Dean’s Faculty Scholar in the School of Humanities and Sciences (2021-2023). Congratulations!

06.02.2021

Mekedlawit passes her candidacy exam! Congratulations!

05.27.2021

Hannah and Anushri are awarded summer fellowships by the VPUE! Congratulations!

05.12.2021

Jonathan and Veronica wrote a Methods in Enzymology chapter on oxazolone and thioamide biosynthesis! Read the chapter here.

04.01.2021

Anushri Tiwari joins us as an undergraduate researcher. Welcome!

02.22.2021

Laura is featured in C&EN News! Read the feature here.

02.17.2021

Waymon has been awarded a Bio-X undergraduate summer fellowship! Congratulations!

02.11.2021

We are thrilled that Veronica has been accepted into graduate programs at MIT, UC Berkeley, Northwestern, Michigan, UCSF, and Stanford! Congratulations!

09.15.2020

The lab welcomes Stephanie Robinson (Chemistry) and Zhainib Amir (Biology) for their Fall rotations!

06.19.2020

The lab is awarded a seed grant from the Sloan Scholars Mentoring Network to investigate the impact of advanced COVID on red blood cells!

06.14.2020

Congratulations to Veronica Stafford for graduating with a Bachelor of Science in Chemistry! We are elated that Veronica will spend another year with us, working as a Research Technician in the laboratory.

05.20.2020

We are thrilled to welcome Lisha Ou and Mekedlawit Setegne as graduate students! Lisha and Mekedlawit are ChEM-H CBI fellows in the department of Chemistry.

02.05.2020

We have moved into our new lab space in the ChEM-H/Neuro complex!

01.06.2020

The lab welcomes postdoctoral fellow Fangfang Shen! We are also excitedly preparing for our move to the ChEM-H building in February!

11.01.2019

We welcome postdoctoral fellow Liting Zhai and Chemistry graduate student Jonathan Chou!

09.23.2019

The lab welcomes ChEM-H CBI rotation students Lisha Ou and Mekedlawit Setegne for their Fall rotations!

07.15.2019

We are hiring! The lab is looking to fill two postdoctoral fellowship positions!

06.08.2019

Laura hosts the lab’s first summer barbecue! We were thrilled to be joined by incoming Chemistry rotation student Lisha Ou and VPUE STEM Fellow Alexia White!