Lab Photos
March , 2024: Our lab journal club meetings have now transitioned into regular lab meetings. This week, Nate and Jonathan shared their results and their progress on their 3D tumor cell-mimicking phantom projects. We also celebrated our undergraduate researcher Isabella’s birthday with strawberry cheesecake white cake and lab dinner at MotoMedi for some mediterranean food.
March 24th, 2024: Prof. Srivastava, Nate, and Ken spent the weekend conducting afterglow imaging experiments and celebrated their good data with some cheeseburgers from Blue Sky Texas.
Jan 15th , 2024: We celebrated a successful submission of our latest proposal and the start of the Spring semester by watching Studio Ghibli’s The Boy and The Heron.
December 15th , 2023: We successfully made our first tumor-mimicking phantoms in the laboratory and followed it up by imaging them using an IVIS Imager.
December 6th , 2023: We celebrated our lab’s inaugural’s Christmas gathering indulging in a lot of sushi and pies, while also partaking in the festive tradition of Secret Santa.
Sept 21, 2023: We had our first lab Nano-Bio journal club. Hayes presented a journal article on Cancer Exosomes and there was excellent discussion that followed. To ensure a fair schedule for our journal club presentations, we picked names out of a Pokeball!
October 3, 2023: It rained cats and dogs last night in Lubbock, but that didn't dampen our spirits to wake up early for our first group picture!
Sept 28, 2023: In this week’s journal club, Bella presented a journal article on Protein Corona with very in-depth insights into the experiments and tying it up with other seminal protein corona papers in the nano-bio field. We followed it up by having our first lab outing to get ice cream at Braum’s.
October 11 - October 14, 2023: Prof. Srivastava attended the BMES National Meetings in Seattle (first as new PI). He co-moderated “Cancer Mechanobiology” session in the Cancer Technologies Track. He absolutely loved the food scenes and eccentric weather in Seattle as it was reminiscent of Champaign (and Chicago).
October 26, 2023: Our weekly Nano-Bio journal club resumed after a brief hiatus. This week, we talked about Hyper-branched Gold Nanoconstructs (Kathryn) and Nanocarrier-Enabled Image-Guided Therapy (Asma). We celebrated our undergraduate researcher Nate’s birthday and our first pre-proposal submission with carrot cake and sushi at Hayashi Midtown.
