2025
News:
April
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Brandye and Aoife updated our chemical and general supplies inventories, no small task!
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We passed out BSL-2 Lab inspection
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Cat and Clara completed our first clinical validation study of the R2 bacterial identification system for the Frankel Innovation Initiative
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Sumeyra's proposal entitled, ChiroFlux: A Novel Platform for Rapid, Marker-Agnostic Extracellular Vesicle Capture for Clinical and Research Applications was advanced to next round for additional funding!
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Priyan's proposal entitled, Antimicrobial Hydrogels for Wound Healing was advanced to next round for Coulter funding!
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Rachel submitted her honor's thesis
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Graduations:
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Derek - B.S., Biomedical Engineering
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Rachel - B.S., Microbiology
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The VanEpps Lab represented 20% of the posters presented at the 10th Annual William G. Barsan Emergency Medicine Research Forum:
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Check out Kat giving her presentation at the Barsan Research Forum
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Dr. VanEpps attended and presented multiple posters and a lightning oral at CU Center for COMBAT Research ELITE Research Symposium
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The paper published with Jouha Min: Stretchable, Nano‐Crumpled MXene Multilayers Impart Long‐Term Antibacterial Surface Properties is ranked within the top 10% of most-viewed papers published by Advanced Materials Interfaces in 2023.
March
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Lauren got our new anaerobic chamber up and running
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Thank you to Aoife for getting facilitating access for dissection training
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Thank you to Lauren and Erin for keeping us compliant for our IACUC inspection
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Scott attended the 2nd session of the Chair Development Program sponsored by SAEM
February
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Aoife completed her ULAM training and now has vivarium access
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We celebrated the 10-year anniversary of EC3
January
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Vishu's paper, GenomicGAPID: Leveraging Spatial Distribution of Conserved Genomic Sites for Broad-Spectrum Microbial Identification, was published in Microbiology Spectrum.
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Vishu's paper, Epidemiology of Positive Bacterial Cultures and the Coverage Gaps in Multiplex PCR Diagnostics: A Single-Center Retrospective Study, was published in Journal of Clinical Microbiology.
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Scott attended the first session of Chair Development Program sponsored by SAEM
2024
News:
December
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The paper, Autocatalytic Nucleation and Self-Assembly of Inorganic Nanoparticles into Complex Biosimilar Networks, was published in Angewandte Chemie.
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Welcome to the lab, Aoife McGuinness, Research Specialist
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Vishu's paper, Development of a rapid, culture-free, universal microbial identification system using internal transcribed spacer targeting primers, was published in Journal of Infectious Diseases
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Kat was awarded the very prestigious Society for Academic Emergency Medicine Research Training Grant worth over $300K!
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Scott renewed his Emergency Medicine Board Certification for another 5 years!
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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