Zack is Done!

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.  

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!

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)

 

 

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!