Mugridge Lab
@mugridgelab.bsky.social
News feed for the Mugridge Lab in the Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry @UDelaware. We study the structural and biochemical mechanisms that control RNA modification and function in the cell.
PI: @jeffmugridge.bsky.social
web: mugridgelab.org
PI: @jeffmugridge.bsky.social
web: mugridgelab.org
Big milestones - this year we said goodbye to the first two PhD grads from our lab! Now Drs. Angel D'Oliviera and Evan Geissler!👩🎓👨🎓 🎉
We also started a new lab tradition - PhD swords! ⚔️ Pictured is Angel's engraved sword with her Mpro-TRMT1 structure!
We also started a new lab tradition - PhD swords! ⚔️ Pictured is Angel's engraved sword with her Mpro-TRMT1 structure!
January 6, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Big milestones - this year we said goodbye to the first two PhD grads from our lab! Now Drs. Angel D'Oliviera and Evan Geissler!👩🎓👨🎓 🎉
We also started a new lab tradition - PhD swords! ⚔️ Pictured is Angel's engraved sword with her Mpro-TRMT1 structure!
We also started a new lab tradition - PhD swords! ⚔️ Pictured is Angel's engraved sword with her Mpro-TRMT1 structure!
This week we said farewell to our amazing undergrad Sophie Olson! Sophie did fantastic work in our lab and is graduating with a BS in Biochemistry! Congrats!🎉 Next up, Sophie will be killing it in the Molecular, Cellular, & Integrative Biosciences PhD program @PennState!
January 4, 2025 at 9:40 PM
This week we said farewell to our amazing undergrad Sophie Olson! Sophie did fantastic work in our lab and is graduating with a BS in Biochemistry! Congrats!🎉 Next up, Sophie will be killing it in the Molecular, Cellular, & Integrative Biosciences PhD program @PennState!
Congrats to lab members Celeste and Youmna, who both recently passed their PhD qualifying exams! 🎉👩🔬
January 4, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Congrats to lab members Celeste and Youmna, who both recently passed their PhD qualifying exams! 🎉👩🔬
We finally got out and celebrated our lab's recent NSF CAREER award today with a lab bowling and laser tag trip! Pew pew! 🔫🎳
January 4, 2025 at 9:40 PM
We finally got out and celebrated our lab's recent NSF CAREER award today with a lab bowling and laser tag trip! Pew pew! 🔫🎳
Very excited that the @NSF CAREER will fund our lab's projects studying mechanisms of really cool tRNA-modifying metalloenzymes starting this year! Huge thanks to Evan & Youmna who got awesome preliminary data for this proposal! We hope to share work from these projects soon! 😀
January 4, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Very excited that the @NSF CAREER will fund our lab's projects studying mechanisms of really cool tRNA-modifying metalloenzymes starting this year! Huge thanks to Evan & Youmna who got awesome preliminary data for this proposal! We hope to share work from these projects soon! 😀
Lab trivia night to celebrate the end of the semester!
January 4, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Lab trivia night to celebrate the end of the semester!
Another award for Sophie! Huge congrats to her on winning the Quaesita Drake Scholarship, given to outstanding undergraduate biochemists, at the @ChemistryUD awards colloquium earlier this week! Go Sophie! And congrats to all the other amazing undergrads who won awards!
January 4, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Another award for Sophie! Huge congrats to her on winning the Quaesita Drake Scholarship, given to outstanding undergraduate biochemists, at the @ChemistryUD awards colloquium earlier this week! Go Sophie! And congrats to all the other amazing undergrads who won awards!
Congrats also to stellar @ChemistryUD biochem major Emma Hudgins who presented a great talk on her research in the Fancher lab at UD! Great UD representation from Sophie and Emma!
January 4, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Congrats also to stellar @ChemistryUD biochem major Emma Hudgins who presented a great talk on her research in the Fancher lab at UD! Great UD representation from Sophie and Emma!
Our rockstar undergrad Sophie Olson took home the 2nd place biochemistry prize for her awesome research talk at the 86th annual ISCC conference recently hosted at @LVC. Way to go Sophie!
January 4, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Our rockstar undergrad Sophie Olson took home the 2nd place biochemistry prize for her awesome research talk at the 86th annual ISCC conference recently hosted at @LVC. Way to go Sophie!
Cheers to Kasun @thxhungryhippo on rocking his candidacy exam earlier today! We celebrated with some morning mimosas! 🍾🍊
January 4, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Cheers to Kasun @thxhungryhippo on rocking his candidacy exam earlier today! We celebrated with some morning mimosas! 🍾🍊
Congratulations to Kasun @thxhungryhippo from our lab for winning a @ChemistryUD Dyer award for excellence in teaching! 🎉🧑🏫 Congrats to the other Dyer award winners as well for contributing to great teaching and TAing the CBC department!
January 4, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Congratulations to Kasun @thxhungryhippo from our lab for winning a @ChemistryUD Dyer award for excellence in teaching! 🎉🧑🏫 Congrats to the other Dyer award winners as well for contributing to great teaching and TAing the CBC department!
Lab escape room trip! We had two successful escapes!
January 4, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Lab escape room trip! We had two successful escapes!
Celebrating the end of Summer session and great work from undergrads Sophie and Joseph (purple arrows), who just completed their first summer of research, with some UDairy ice cream! (consumed ice cream not pictured)
January 4, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Celebrating the end of Summer session and great work from undergrads Sophie and Joseph (purple arrows), who just completed their first summer of research, with some UDairy ice cream! (consumed ice cream not pictured)
Congrats to @mugridgelab undergrad Sophie Olson, whose Summer research in our lab will be funded by a @ChemistryUD David Plastino Fellowship! Congrats to the other awardees & big thanks to Dave Plastino - we're excited to have Sophie joining us over the Summer!
📷 @BrianBahnson
📷 @BrianBahnson
January 4, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Congrats to @mugridgelab undergrad Sophie Olson, whose Summer research in our lab will be funded by a @ChemistryUD David Plastino Fellowship! Congrats to the other awardees & big thanks to Dave Plastino - we're excited to have Sophie joining us over the Summer!
📷 @BrianBahnson
📷 @BrianBahnson
Congrats to @mugridgelab undergrad Jasmin Bioteau for winning the @ChemistryUD Merck Index Award this year! Way to go Jasmin! Congrats to all the other departmental awardees too!
📷 @lauren_genova
📷 @lauren_genova
January 4, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Congrats to @mugridgelab undergrad Jasmin Bioteau for winning the @ChemistryUD Merck Index Award this year! Way to go Jasmin! Congrats to all the other departmental awardees too!
📷 @lauren_genova
📷 @lauren_genova
Finally, we had three enthusiastic undergrads join the lab this year and start getting their feet (or hands!) wet on some research projects. Welcome to Sophie, Jasmin, and Joseph! 4/4
January 4, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Finally, we had three enthusiastic undergrads join the lab this year and start getting their feet (or hands!) wet on some research projects. Welcome to Sophie, Jasmin, and Joseph! 4/4
Two new PhD students joined the lab this year! Celeste, who is part of the @UDelCBI program and joint with @Dr_JeremyGBird lab, and Kasun. Welcome both! 3/
January 4, 2025 at 9:56 PM
Two new PhD students joined the lab this year! Celeste, who is part of the @UDelCBI program and joint with @Dr_JeremyGBird lab, and Kasun. Welcome both! 3/
Suma Katta joined the lab as a postdoc! Suma comes to us by way of @HydUniv and @ccmb_csir, where she did really cool protein-RNA work to understand tRNA charging surveillance mechanisms 2/
January 4, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Suma Katta joined the lab as a postdoc! Suma comes to us by way of @HydUniv and @ccmb_csir, where she did really cool protein-RNA work to understand tRNA charging surveillance mechanisms 2/
A very much needed updated lab photo! We have lots of new group members to welcome who've joined over the past few months... 1/
January 4, 2025 at 9:45 PM
A very much needed updated lab photo! We have lots of new group members to welcome who've joined over the past few months... 1/
Wrapping up a busy semester of candidacy exams in the group! Congrats to Luke!
January 4, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Wrapping up a busy semester of candidacy exams in the group! Congrats to Luke!
🍾Congrats to Brittany! Now all 3 of the lab's first members are officially PhD candidates!
January 4, 2025 at 9:45 PM
🍾Congrats to Brittany! Now all 3 of the lab's first members are officially PhD candidates!
🎉Congratulations to Evan on passing his candidacy exam! We had a chilly but fun celebration!🍾⛄️
January 4, 2025 at 9:45 PM
🎉Congratulations to Evan on passing his candidacy exam! We had a chilly but fun celebration!🍾⛄️
🥳 Congratulations to now-PhD-candidate Angel @biochemistAngel on being the first student from our lab to advance to candidacy! Great work!
January 4, 2025 at 9:45 PM
🥳 Congratulations to now-PhD-candidate Angel @biochemistAngel on being the first student from our lab to advance to candidacy! Great work!
Enjoying the Fall weather with a lab mini-golfing trip!
January 4, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Enjoying the Fall weather with a lab mini-golfing trip!
Lab canoeing trip at Lum's Pond! Great weather and great fun. We missed Evan and Emily, but will get out more soon!
January 4, 2025 at 9:51 PM
Lab canoeing trip at Lum's Pond! Great weather and great fun. We missed Evan and Emily, but will get out more soon!