April 2026: Abbie is awarded a prestigious Damon Runyon-St. Jude Pediatric Cancer Research Postdoc Fellowship. Congrats!

March 2026: The lab welcomes Dr. Carlos Llanos to conduct his postdoc research!

February 2026: Viraj receives a travel award from the Biophysical Society (BPS) to present a talk at BPS in San Francisco!

December 2025: Congratulations to Jocie, Alison and Neica on our review paper being accepted in Annual Reviews Analytical Chemistry!

November 2025: Edgar receives a Rice Engineering Alumni association travel award to present a talk at AIChE in Boston!

October 2025: Carla and Julea present oral talks and Wenchang presents a poster at BMES in San Diego!

July 2025: Dr. Vlassakis served as an Instructor for the Cold Spring Harbor Single-Cell and Spatial Transcriptomics Analysis Course, and Edgar, Jocie, and Neica joined as teaching assistants.

June 2025: Welcome to our new postdoc, Dr. Abbie Clevenger, and incoming MBE student, Samira McWashington!

Also, a huge congratulations to Alison Lao on receiving a poster award at the GRC on Microfluidics, and to Neica Joseph on being a finalist too!

May 2025: Congratulations to Carla on receiving her Master’s in Bioengineering degree! Carla will continue her research in the lab as a research technician over the next year.

March 2025: Congrats to Alison on being selected for an oral presentation and for Neica on being selected to present at poster at the GRS on Microfluidics in June in Barga, Italy!

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