Congratulations to Zack (Dr. Davis!), who defended his dissertation on August 1. He joined the lab as an undergrad back in January 2015, and now he’s left with his doctorate. He did an amazing job at his defense(surprising no one) and he will be very sorely missed in the lab. Outside of Matt and Steph, he is the last remaining member of TORL 1.0, and his support for his lab mates– including mentoring at least a half dozen undergrads– his leadership, and his positive attitude have played a huge role in making the lab what it is today.
Category: Good News
Danielle Defended!
Graduation 2022
Last weekend was graduation, and TORL was proud to have four students graduating this year — two grad students and two undergrads.
Aasim will be starting at University of Texas at Austin in the fall. He’ll be pursuing a PhD in their Biomedical Engineering, initially doing rotations with Dr. Elizabeth Cosgriff-Hernandez and Dr. Stephanie Seidlits
Andre will be starting as a level 1 engineer with Spectrum Plastics.
Lewis will be beginning a post doc in a few weeks with Danny Freytes, who served as Lewis’s co-advisor for his PhD. He won’t be going far (in fact, the Freytes Lab is the next bench down from ours so really not far!) but we’ll still miss having him as part of our group.
Danielle is putting the final touches on her dissertation and will be defending later this summer. We’re of course very excited for her, but also glad to not be losing her quite yet!
Lewis is a Doctor!
Zack Passes his Oral Prelim
Very exciting news: Zack passed his Oral Prelim today and is now officially a doctoral candidate. Congratulations to Zack!
Danielle has an especially impressive week
Danielle had a very eventful week! She got a Notice of Award for her F31 (Pre-Doctoral fellowship) AND she had a preprint come out. The work builds on Stephanie Cone’s previous work, while also raising new questions to explore.
Check it out: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.05.10.442986v1
CMI Featured on the NC State Homepage
The Comparative Medicine Institute (CMI) was recently featured on NC State’s homepage. Our very own Matt and Lauryn were featured by name (photo toward the end), and eagle-eyed readers may notice the back of Lewis’s head or Stephanie Cone’s nose in some of the other photos. We’re so thrilled to be part of this amazing group and work with such brilliant and dedicated scientists.
Read the whole article here.
You can learn more about the CMI here.
Today’s NC State homepage feature (click to enlarge)
MATT GOT TENURE!!
Yes, the title is in all caps because we’re yelling from excitement!
Matt was granted tenure, and will be promoted to Associate Professor at the start of the next academic year. He tweeted a copy of the notification letter:
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Announcing Dr. Paul
Congratulations to our Graduates!
Graduation 2019 was an exciting day for the lab. We graduated our first two Ph.D students: Stephanie and Paul. We also had three undergrads graduate this year: Emily, who joined our lab four years ago as a freshman, as well as Alex and Raghad, who joined us last summer.
Stephanie will be going on to a post-doc in at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. Emily is going on to grad school at the University of Delaware. Alex and Raghad have both gotten great jobs in industry here in RTP.
Congratulations graduates!