Rahuljeet Chadha, Greg Kalminskii, and Jason Deck attended the ACS Connecticut Valley Section spring symposium at Central Connecticut State University on April 21, 2018.

RJ and Greg gave a talk about their work on loading peptide substrate reporters into cells, and Jason presented a poster on his modifications to MatLab programming for data analysis.

Greg Kalminskii, Prof. Tim Curran, and Jason Deck at his poster. (Photo credit to Janet Morrison)

Ana Romano and RJ Chadha at the poster session. (Photo credit to Janet Morrison)

Julia Clapis ’18 and Prof. Kovarik traveled to Orlando to present at Pittcon 2018. Julia made great use of the Career Services at the conference, doing several onsite interviews. She also made new connections and at least one new friend!

The Kovarik lab summer research students presented their work at the 2017 fall research symposium on September 26, 2017. Julia Clapis was interviewed for a story on Trinity’s website!

The lab had a strong showing at the ACS-CVS spring meeting at UConn on Saturday, April 22. We had 5 poster presentations, and Allie’s was selected as the “Best Poster” award winner.

Greg at his poster.

Josh at his poster.

Allie at her poster.

Julia at her poster.

Jess at her poster.

Celebrating at the UCONN Dairy Bar…

…with some honorary lab members.

I am excited to be a 2017 Cottrell Scholar and thrilled to have support for our project looking at biological noise in Dictyostelium discoideum as well as for my work on using the primary literature in the classroom. More info about the program is here.

The first research paper from the laboratory, titled “Interspecies comparison of peptide substrate reporter metabolism using compartment-based modeling,” has been accepted by Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry and is now available online. It was even selected by the editor to be highlighted as a Paper in Forefront! Congratulations to co-authors Allie, Nhat, Kunwei, and Prof. Brooks Emerick, and many thanks to our colleagues in the Allbritton Lab at UNC and the Graf lab at UConn for their help.

The lab’s recent grant funding was just profiled on the Trinity website! You can read the story here.

A fantastic mini-documentary about what it’s like to do summer research at Trinity from Environmental Science major Cassia Armstrong:

The lab has received its first external grant, through the Research at Undergraduate Institutions at the National Science Foundation! The funding is through the Cellular Dynamics and Function program at the Division of Molecular and Cellular Biology.