September 2024: Welcome to BIOE rotation student, Katherine Vasquez!

July 2024: Vlassakis and lab members Jocie, Tanushree and Edgar taught single-cell western blotting at the Cold Spring Harbor Lab Single-Cell Analysis Course!

June 2024: The lab’s first publication is now in print! Please take a look at our invited review led by Dr. Tanushree Dutta on “Microscale measurements of protein complexes from single cells” in Current Opinions in Structural Biology.

Vlassakis presents an invited virtual talk at the Swedish Conference on Microfluidics in the Life Sciences, and posters at the NIH High-Risk High-Reward Symposium and the GRC on Intrinsically Disordered Proteins.

This summer, the lab is hosting Rice SURF undergraduate researcher Danae Georgiadis, ENGMED REU undergraduate researcher Marianny Escalona, and AHA SURF undergraduate researcher Peter Zhao!

June 2024: We are grateful to receive funding from the Welch Foundation to support our research on single-cell heterogeneity of O-GlcNAc glycosylation modifications of oncoproteins!

May 2024: Fellowship alert! Congratulation to Edgar on receiving the Kobabyashi Fellowship from the ChBE Department, and to Viraj for being named a Rice Center for Teaching Excellence Fellow!

April 2024: Huge congratulations to Neica on receiving a fellowship from the NSF GRFP!

January 2024: Wesley successfully defends his masters thesis in Applied Physics to advance to PhD Candidacy!

February 2024: Vlassakis serves as associate track chair, session chair and speaker in the Micro/Nanotechologies Track of the SLAS meeting in Boston.

November 2023: We are happy to welcome bioengineering PhD students Alison Lao and Neica Joseph for their thesis research in the lab!

Vlassakis is selected as a BMES CMBE 2024 Rising Star and will present the lab’s research at the CMBE 2024 meeting in San Juan, Puerto Rico in January!

October 2023: Vlassakis is awarded an NIH Director’s New Innovator Award! The award supports the lab’s efforts on “Deep phenotyping of fusion oncoprotein-driven pediatric cancer metastasis with single-cell proteomics”
Project number: 1DP2CA290802-01
https://reporter.nih.gov/search/tqAPqmyRFUCr72wLKQRQNw/project-details/10687394

October 2023: Viraj presents a poster at BMES 2023 in Seattle, WA (with travel support from the BIOE department)!

Vlassakis presents an invited talk in the “Emerging Leaders” session of the American Electrophoresis Society track at SciX in Sparks, NV.

September 2023: Congrats to Viraj Ghosh on his 2nd-place poster award at the Rice University Surface Analysis and SIMS Workshop!

Welcome to our rotation students: Henry Gatica-Gutierrez (SSPB), Katherine Chen (BIOE) and Bakai Sheyitov (BIOE)!

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