News
November 2024
Welcome graduate students, Frank Zhang, Shaoyuan Guo, and Natalie King to the lab!
November 2024
Congratulations to graduate student Yue Yu for winning a presentation award at the Allerton Conference!
October 2024
Congratulations to Dr. Dinh Nguyen for his final defense! Dinh will be working as a postdoctoral researcher in the Laub lab at MIT.
Congratulations to Josseline Ramos-Figueroa for receiving the poster prize award at the 2nd International RiPPs Conference!
Congratulations to graduate students Jeff Chen, David Freytag, and Tony Zhang for having finished their preliminary examinations!
Congratulations to graduate student Youran Luo for receiving the Fuson Travel Award!
September 2024
Congratulations to graduate student, Ceilia Leso, for making the list of Teachers Ranked as Excellent Spring 2024! She received a rating of Outstanding!
Congratulations to Wilfred for winning the ACS Alfred Bader Award in Bioinorganic or Bioorganic Chemistry!
June 2024
Welcome postdoctoral researcher Dr. Yao Ouyang, who is coming from Todd Hyster’s lab!
Several former group members achieved new milestones in their careers. Neha Garg (Georgia Tech) and Jeella Acedo (Mount Royal University) were awarded tenure, Rob Cichillo (SVP R&D Oerth Bio, Durham, NC), Subha Mukherjee (Scientific Director at Eli Lilly, Indianapolis), Abraham Wang (Bullseye Bio) and Autumn Frerk (MicroMGx) took new positions in industry, and Zhengan Zhang started as faculty member at Shandong University. Congratulations!
April 2024
Congratulations to Dr. Haoqian “Lainey” Liang for her final defense! Lainey will be working at Roche in Pleasanton, California.
March 2024
Congratulations to WAV undergrads Joey and Yi for being awarded undergraduate research scholarships from the Department of Chemistry!
January 2024
Congratulations to Dr. Emily Desormeaux for her final defense!
December 2023
Congratulations to Dr. Sara Eslami for her final defense! Sara will be working at Just-Evotec Biologics in Seattle.
Welcome graduate students Ceilia Leso and Pelham Kogut to the lab!
Welcome postdoctoral researcher Dr. Songyi Xue to the lab!
November 2023
Congratulations to Josseline and Yue for being selected for flash talks at the 2024 Enzyme Mechanisms Conference (EMC) in Florida!
October 2023
Congratulations to Dinh Nguyen for receiving the Fuson Travel Award!
Welcome graduate student Vanessa Reyes Lopez to the lab!
August 2023
Welcome postdoctoral researcher Dr. Lide Cha to the lab!
Congratulations to Dr. Tung Le for his final defense! Tung will be moving to UC Berkeley as a postdoctoral researcher.
July 2023
Welcome postdoctoral researcher Dr. Yuqing Li to the lab!
June 2023
Welcome undergraduate Natalie King to the lab! Natalie is from Monmouth College, joining us as part of the Summer Snyder Scholars program.
The van der Donk lab is traveling to the Indiana Dunes State Park area for a three-day lab retreat. Have fun!
Welcome postdoctoral researcher Dr. Chandrashekhar Padhi to the lab!
March 2023
Congratulations to Wilfred and Jeff for making the Fall 2022 "List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent by their Students."
Congratulations to Dr. Raymond Sarsikan for his final defense! Ray will be working at Amgen in California.
Congratulations to Dr. Richard Ayikpoe, he accepted a position at Merck in New Jersey!
January 2023
Welcome postdoctoral researcher Dr. Ryan Moerira to the lab!
November 2022
Welcome postdoctoral researcher Dr. Jingqi Chen to the lab!
October 2022
Welcome Chemistry graduate students Jeff Chen, David Freytag, and Tony Zhang to the lab!
September 2022
Congratulations to Dr. Hyunji Lee, she accepted a faculty position at Kyungsun University in South Korea!
August 2022
Congratulations to Dr. Page Daniels for her final defense! Page will be working at Primordial Genetics in California.
July 2022
With Wilfred as project lead, the WAV lab together with the Wu, Stadtmeuller, Mehta, and Guthmiller labs, received a $9.5 million NIH grant for the Emerging Pathogens Initiative to study the avian response to influenza!
Congratulations to Dr. Chunyu “Layla” Wu for her final defense! Layla will be working at Merck in New Jersey.
Congratulations to Dr. Constantin Giurgiu, he accepted a job at Evozyne in Illinois!
June 2022
Congratulations to Dr. Max Simon for his final defense! Max will be working at LanzaTech in Illinois.
April 2022
Congratulations to Alexis Lower for winning the NSF-GRFP!
January 2022
Congratulations to Wilfred for planning a successful Enzyme and Mechanisms Conference 2022!
November 2021
Congratulations to Dr. Imran Rahman for his final defense! Imran accepted a position at Capsida in California.
Welcome postdoctoral researcher Dr. Josseline Ramos Figueroa to the lab!
October 2021
Welcome Chemistry graduate students Enleyona Weir and Anna Conley to the lab!
Congratulations to Dr. Daisuke Fujinami on accepting a postdoctoral researcher position at University of Tokyo!
July 2021
Welcome postdoctoral researcher Dr. Constantin Giurgiu to the lab!
Welcome Chemistry graduate student Youran Luo to the lab!
April 2021
Congratulations to Wilfred for being elected to the National Academy of Sciences!
Welcome visiting scientist Dr. Javier Murciano-Calles to the lab!
Welcome Biochemistry graduate student Rachel Martini to the lab!
March 2021
Congratulations to Dr. Martin McLaughlin for his final defense! Martin will be moving to Stanford University as a postdoctoral researcher.
October 2020
Welcome Chemistry graduate student Alexis Lower to the lab!