2024
News:
November
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Welcome new lab members:
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Joey Melaragni, Undergraduate researcher
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Linqi Huang, Graduate student in Chemical Engineering
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Scott's interview with SAEM Pulse was featured on the cover:
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Congratulations to Erika for being promoted to Research Intermediate Supervisor
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Sumeyra’s paper, Self‐Organization of Iron Sulfide Nanoparticles into Complex Multicompartment Supraparticles in Advanced Materials has received 3000 views already!
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Check Shamalee given a talk on her nanopillar arrays at the Macro Sympsium
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Kudos to Vishu for submitting proposal entitled, Developing A Universal Bacterial Identification System To Improve Outcomes In Neonates With Sepsis to CARB-X for $1.5M
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Our Industry Partner, Pyogenix, Inc. submitted an NIH STTR proposal with the VanEpps Lab as the academic partner
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Shamalee had her data meeting for Macro and was cleared to write her dissertation!
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Sumeyra’s paper, Self‐Organization of Iron Sulfide Nanoparticles into Complex Multicompartment Supraparticles in Advanced Materials has received 3000 views already!
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VanEpps Lab receive Bronze Level Sustainable Laboratory Certification
October
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Kudos to Kat for submitting her proposal entitled, Physical manipulation of vascular endothelium for therapeutic applications to the Burroughs Wellcome Fund for $700K.
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Kudos to Vishu for:
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EOI for a CARB-X grant that was accepted for a full submission
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Submission of a manuscript to mBio
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Receiving positive reviewer comments for his manuscript at Journal of Infectious Diseases
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Taylor’s paper, Antimicrobial wound dressings for full thickness infected burn wounds was published at Shock
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Kudos to Sumeyra for receiving positive reviewer comments for her manuscript at Angewandte Chemie
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Kudos to Clemence for submitting her manuscript to Genetics
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Scott gave the Emergency Medicine Departmental Research Seminar entitled, VanEpps Lab: Creative approaches to life-threatening infections
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Kudos to Scott for:
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Submitting R01 application on antibiofilm carbon nanoparticles
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Submitting R01 application on sepsis phenotyping
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Contributing to 2 R21 submissions this cycle
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Check out video recognizing Kat her EMF award!
September
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Congratulations to Sumeyra who was awarded the 2024 BI Community Innovator Award including a $1,500 prize!
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Welcome new lab members:
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Owen Chun, Undergraduate researcher
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Samha Amin, Undergraduate researcher
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We passed our IACUC inspection! Thank you to Erin and Lauren
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Farwell to Clemence, who is moving on to Montreal
June
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Taylor’s manuscript, Antimicrobial wound dressings for full thickness infected burn wounds was accepted at Shock.
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Olivia’s manuscript Continuous Sepsis Trajectory Prediction using Tensor-Reduced Physiological Signals was accepted at Scientific Reports.
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Kat was awarded $10K from the Emergency Medicine Foundation for her Resident Research Proposal, Kat: Adverse effects of adjuvant heat treatment for catheter salvage in central line associated bloodstream infection
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Sumeyra’s proposal, Rapid extracellular vesicle isolation and identification as a versatile disease biomarker was awarded $150,000 by the Coulter Translational Research Partnership Program
May
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Scott was awarded Organizational Advancement Award for his work on the SAEM Foundation Board of Trustees
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The SAEM Foundation received a $1M donation during the SAEM meeting!!
April
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We passed our BSL-2 inspection! Nice work Erika.
March
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We passed our ULAM inspection! Nice work Shannon, Lauren, and Erin.
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Sumeyra’s Coulter proposal moves on to the in-person pitch phase!
February
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Kudos to Sumeyra for getting her proposal submitted to the Coulter Translational Research Partnership Program: https://innovationpartnerships.umich.edu/resource/coulter-translational-research-partnership-program/
Jaunary
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Congratulations to Vishu and Pallavi on the birth of their new baby
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Kat successfully submitted her EMF Resident Research Grant
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Congratulations to Olivia who successfully defended her dissertation defense!
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Scott was awarded a “Valuing Our Own” discretionary award worth over $2K from the medical school.
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Our paper, Rapid diagnosis of bloodstream infections using a culture-free phenotypic platform accepted at Paper accepted to Communications Medicine.
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Congratulations to Chloe Luyet for successfully defending her dissertation entitled, A Computational Characterization of Nanoscale Interactions of Biological Systems
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Huge thank you to Lauren and Erika for getting our CO2 incubators back in working order and Cody from the Wicha lab for letting us use theirs in the meantime
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Olivia’s paper was published in Diagnostics.
2023
December
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Welcome new lab members:
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Rachel Cohn, Undergraduate researcher
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Derek Fukuda, Undergraduate researcher
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Catherine Wellman, Research technician
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Welcome back to Clara Smith, Returning undergraduate researcher
November
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Congratulations to Mische for her successful dissertation defense and new job at Rocket Lab: https://www.rocketlabusa.com/
September
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Vishu and Scott were awarded a second year of funding from the Frankel Innovation Initative worth over $380K! https://medresearch.umich.edu/labs-departments/centers/frankel-innovation-initiative/award-recipients
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