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NEWS ARCHIVE

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NEWS:

Summer 2024: Welcome Raisa and Karen! Raisa is an MD/PhD student rotating with us this summer. Raisa conducted her undergraduate training at Hunter College and we’re excited to learn from her domain expertise in neurological diseases. Karen is a visiting undergraduate student from UCLA; in addition to mastering cyclophilin activity assays she encourages the lab to keep up with their Duolingo.

Spring 2024: Welcome Vanie and Isabelle (Ming Suet)! Vanie is a Biochemistry and Structural Biology PhD student, and Isabelle (Ming Suet) is a MD/PhD student co-mentored with Dr. Ivet Bahar. Vanie will be studying mutations that alter drug binding kinetics to human kinases, and Isabelle will be studying the drug resistance and sensitivity of oncogenic fusions that occur in human leukemias.

01/2024: Welcome Kathleen! Kathleen joins the lab from the Stony Brook Chemistry Program and brings with her lots of experience in science (and adorable photos of her rabbit)!

09-10/2023: Big months! The Stony Brook Renaissance School of Medicine selected Markus for the 2023 award of Senior Research Excellence. Congratulations!

Ian was also selected as a student speaker in the Stony Brook Institute of Chemical Biology & Drug Discovery Symposium and won a best poster award, but best of all got a selfie with Stony Brook’s own Wolfie!

05/2023: Welcome Lila! Lila is excited to learn molecular biology techniques and teach the lab the secrets of Gen-Z speak.

05/2023: Welcome Emma! Emma joins our lab from the Structural Biology and Biochemistry graduate program. She is well-versed in analytical chemistry and crystallography and we are excited to work with her!

04/2023: Congratulations to our graduates! Yiting, Victoria, and Aziz have all graduated and moved on to excellent positions: Victoria and Yiting in industry, and Aziz has returned to finish his MD studies.

11/2021: Excellent work! Agatha and Aziz publish their very nice work as co-first authors: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34750265/. Congratulations to Agatha and Aziz!

06/2021: New member! Ian Outhwaite is an MSTP student from Brooklyn, NY. Welcome Ian!

02/2021: Fellowship achieved! Aziz was awarded an NIH Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service (NRSA) F30 Predoctoral Fellowship from the National Cancer Institute. Congratulations, Aziz!

05/2019: New members! Aziz Rangwala is an MSTP student from Westford, MA, and Victoria Mingione is an MCB graduate student from West Islip, NY. Welcome Aziz and Victoria!

05/2017: Another new member! YiTing Paung is a graduate student from Taiwan who joined the Seeliger lab. Welcome YiTing.

03/2017: We are pleased to announce our new member! Manish Thakur is a expert on Brk kinase from India who joined the Seeliger lab this summer. Welcome Manish!

09/2016: September was a great month! Markus was awarded the Excellence in Early Career Research Award from the Stony Brook University School of Medicine.

He was also the first place winner for his entry on Effective Communication for Physician Scientists for the “Innovations in Research Education Award” from the American Association of Medical Colleges.

03/2016: Congratulation! Congratulations to Maja for winning the Undergraduate Recognition Award in the category of Academic Excellence!

04/2016: Another award! Our very own Emilie Bouda was awarded the prestigious National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship! Congratulations Emilie and welcome to the Seeliger lab!

06/2016: Defense Success! Our very own Ivan Lebedev successfully defended his dissertation and graduated with his PhD in Biochemistry and Structural Biology. Warmest congratulations, Dr. Lebedev!

08/2015: New member! Agatha Lyczek is an MSTP student from NYC who joined the Seeliger lab this summer. Welcome Agatha!

06/2015: Graduation! Congratulations to our very own Zack Foda on his graduation! Zack was also the recipient of the prestigious Presidential Graduate award, only five of which are awarded each year University-wide.

Dr. Foda will be returning to medical school to complete the MD portion of his MD-PhD. All the best, Zack!

06/2015: Yet another award! Grace Tan was a recipient of the David Williams Memorial travel award. Congratulations!

05/2015: Award! Our very own undergrad Maja Kornaj has been awarded the URECA summer research grant!
Maja also came in first place in a poster competition among Pharmacology undergraduates at the URECA Undergraduate Research Symposium in April. Congratulations!

12/2014 – 01/2015: New publications! Congratulations to Mike Tong and Zack Foda on their publications!

08/2014: Degree achieved! Congratulations to Dr. George Georghiou on his graduation!

05/2014: May has been a great month!

Congratulations to our undergrads Jevon Fragoso and Igor Bundalevski on graduating from Stony Brook University! Jevon is also the recipient of the Sir James Black award.

Also, warmest congratulations to Theresa (Chia-Yu) Kung for being a recipient of the URECA grant for summer research!

Grace Tan was also awarded the Mary Landon Sague Fellowship for graduate study.

07/2013: Fellowship achieved! Zack Foda is the recipient of the NIH Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service (NRSA) Predoctoral Fellowship. Congratulations, Zack!

04/2013: Grant Winning! Congratulations to our undergrad Jevon Fragoso for being awarded the URECA grant for summer research!

02/2013: Qualified for PhD! Congratulations to Zack Foda and Grace Tan for passing their Qualifying Exams to officially rise to PhD candidacy!

09/2012: Award winning! Congratulations to our very own George Georghiou for winning the van der Kloot Award for Excellence in Research!

07/2012: Retrospective look on renovations! Since we’re all settled in the new lab space now, let’s take a retrospective look at the renovations leading up to our moving in.

07/2012: New lab! We have moved into our newly renovated lab space! Check out how we celebrated the opening of our lab with the Department.

06/2012: Congrats on award! Our heartiest congratulations to our undergraduate Michael Pulkoski-Gross for graduating cum laude from Stony Brook University! Michael was also recipient of the Sir James Black award and the Dean’s Choice award.

02/2012: Paper released! Our paper with David Liu on macrocyclic Src inhibitors came out in Nature Chem. Bio.

12/2011: Renovations! Renovations for our lab are entering their final stage!

07/2011: Winning a grant! Congratulations to Michael Pulkoski-Gross for winning a URECA Summer Undergraduate Research Grant.

07/2011: New award! Undergraduate Lisa Malone graduates and wins the Jean Devlin Award for her research in the lab.
07/2011: New member! Zack Foda joins the group. Welcome!

06/2011: Award! Undergraduate Michael Pulkoski-Gross receives an Undergraduate Recognition Award for Academic Excellence

05/2011: First Achievement! Our first paper from Stony Brook is published in JACS:
Really, how DOES a drug molecule find its target binding site?