Denise is elected to the Nominating Committee of The Protein Society! She will help to identify and reach out to protein scientists who may want to serve TPS. (September 2023)
The group traveled to Boston to attend The Protein Society’s 37th Annual Symposium! Arumay, Priscilla, Kesaban, Nishanti, Riley, Saurov, and Sabab presented posters, and Sabab gave a talk. Nishanti won honorable mention in the poster competition. Congratulations Nishanti! (July 2023)
Riley was featured in ASBMB Today’s Pride Issue. Check it out here! (June 2023)
The lab gets 3 new members! Welcome to Arumay Biswas and Saurov Hazarika, Chemistry graduate students, and Nishanti Sudhakar, BMMB graduate student! (January 2023)
The group had brunch at The Corner Room to celebrate the end of 2022! (December 2022)
Kesaban Sankar Roy Choudhuri joins the lab as a postdoctoral researcher. Welcome Kesaban! (September 2022)
Riley Sasse, Chemistry graduate student, joins the lab. Welcome Riley!! (May 2022)
The group traveled to Philadelphia for ASBMB. Tracy, Sabab, Priscilla and Emily presented posters and everyone had an excellent time (April 2022)
Tracy and Priscilla were both awarded travel awards for ASBMB! (Feb 2022)
The Okafor group was awarded an NSF CAREER award! (Feb 2022)
We had a lovely holiday party to celebrate the end of 2021 (Dec 2021)
After months of virtual group meetings, we finally had our first in-person group meeting!
Pictures from our Pizza Party!! (July 2021)
Denise was profiled for The Biophysicist, the monthly magazine of the Biophysical Society. Check it out here!
Pictures from our Lab party to celebrate the end of 2021 spring semester and Anna’s graduation. We will miss you Anna!!
Pictures from our Zoom holiday party Dec 2020
Priscilla Villalona, BMMB graduate student joined the lab! (Dec 2020)
Ashley Gelin, Freshman and Millenium scholar joined the lab! (Dec 2020)
Namita Dube joins the lab as a postdoc. (August 2020)
Noriko Mikeasky join the lab as a research technologist. (July 2020)
Denise gives a talk in the ASBMB lipids research division. (July 2020) Click Here
Denise is interviewed in Chemical and Engineering News (C&EN) in a series about the effects of COVID on early career researchers. (June 2020) Click Here
Anna Hou joins the group as an undergraduate researcher. (March 2020)
Tracy Yu joins the group as our first graduate student. (March 2020)
Sabab Khan joins the group as a postdoc. (March 2020)
Emily Meinert joins the group as undergraduate researcher. (Feb 2020)
The Okafor lab opens! (Jan 2020)