The COVID-19 pandemic did lead to the cancellation of the 2020 Louisiana Academy of Sciences Annual meeting but that did not stop the organization from recognizing students for outstanding extended abstract submissions. Congratulations to Haley Barnett, John Bradley Cart, and Caroline Rinderle for their recognition and achievement!
All year I had intentions of making a blog post. Every week I thought I would find the time and every week something else came up. So, with this post I will wrap up a hectic and exciting year by highlighting some of the lab's accomplishments. It's been a long year and hopefully I have covered everything! Fall 2019: This quarter started with my own promotion to Associate Professor and Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Studies in the College of Applied and Natural Sciences (now you know why it took so long to find time to make a blog post!) India Pursell (2019), an undergraduate from the lab began a position as a lab technician with Dr. Bruce Bunnell at Tulane University - so proud of her! Winter 2020: The winter quarter is always tricky because of all of the breaks, so we don't always have as much going on. The lab did have several students present at the Louisiana Biomedical Research Network Annual Meeting where students were recognized for their strong presentations, Haley Barnett (awarded 1st runner up) and Sree Venigalla participated in the 3 Minute Thesis Competition and at the Louisiana Tech University Undergraduate Research Symposium. Rebecca Hodnett and Sree Venigalla were recognized as Featured Students by the College of Applied and Natural Sciences. Last, but certainly not least, Claire Peterson graduated with her BS in Biology! Spring 2020: As we all know COVID-19 meant a number of conferences were canceled and labs were closed, changing the way we do so much!! That said, there have still been some big events....Haley Barnett successfully defended her dissertation!! The Journey of a Stem Cell authored by graduate student Rebecca Hodnett was published and is being distributed throughout the community to teach children about stem cells. Students received awards from Louisiana Tech's Center for Biomedical Engineering & Rehabilitation Sciences (CBERS) - Scott Liu (PhD), Foram Patel (Undergraduate), and John Bradley Cart (Undergraduate). After 3 years as a lab technician at MIT, former undergraduate Demi Sandel (2017) decided to attend UCSF for graduate school - congratulations!!! Former undergradaute Connor Hartupee (2019) decided to attend LSUHSC-New Orleans for medical school - congratulations!!! Other updates from former students:
Erik Beadle (2016) and Nehal Patel (2016) continue their PhD research at Vanderbilt and Tulane, respectively Justin Philobos (2017) is finishing his second year of medical school at UC Riverside and became a dad earlier this year. Matthew Busby (2018) is finishing his second year of medical school at LSUHSC Shreveport School of Medicine and continues to participate in research at the medical school. Natalee Dinkins (2018) is in Dental School at LSU School of Dentistry Rachel Eddy (2018) is in Vet School at LSU Katie Whitehead (2018) is finishing up her second year in the MD/PhD program at LSUHSC-New Orleans and will begin the research for her PhD this summer. Hannah Logan (2019) and Avery Bryan (2019) are finishing their first year of medical school at LSUHSC-Shreveport I am so proud of all the members of the Newman Lab past and present and look forward to see what they do next! Stay healthy and safe! |
Dr. Jamie NewmanAssociate Professor of Biological Sciences Archives
May 2021
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