2025

February 2025Congratulations to John for the publication of his paper in ACS Infectious Diseases!

February 2025Congratulations to Emily for the publication of her paper in ACS Infectious Diseases!

January 2025 – Welcome to the Wencewicz lab, new graduate students Anika, Ellie, Emma, Garrett, and Kavya!

January 2025 – Congratulations to Brandon for the successful defense of his prethesis!

January 2025 – Congratulations to Jinping and Adam on the acceptance of your manuscript in Biochemistry!

2024

November 2024 – Congratulations to Adam and Jinping for the publication of their paper in ACS Chemical Biology!

August 2024 – Congratulations to Emily for the successful defense of her PhD. Best of luck at Yale!

August 2024 – Congratulations to Collin and Nicole for the publication of their chapter in Methods in Enzymology!

April 2024 – Congratulations to Adam and John for being awarded the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship! 

March 2024 – Congratulations to Emily on the acceptance of your manuscript in Communications Biology!

January 2024 – Welcome to the Wencewicz lab, new graduate student, Brandon Beard!

2023

December 2023 – Congratulations to Jinping on the acceptance of your manuscript in Materials Today Chemistry!

October 2023 – Congratulations to Adam for passing your qualifying exam!

July 2023 – Congratulations to Jinping on the successful defense of her PhD. Best of luck at Stanford!

June 2023 – Welcome to the Wencewicz lab, new graduate student, Adam Balutowski!

May 2023 – Congratulations to Jinping on the acceptance of your manuscript in ACS Chemical Biology!

April 2023 – Congratulations to Emily on the acceptance of your manuscript in Communications Biology!

April 2023 – Congratulations to Collin for being awarded the Dean’s Award for Teaching Excellence!

March 2023 – Congratulations to Emily on the acceptance of your manuscript in ACS Journal of Medicinal Chemistry!

March 2023 – Congratulations to Collin for being awarded the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship! 

2022

December 2022 – Congratulations to Collin on the successful defense of his prethesis! 

October 2022 – Congratulations to Jinping for being selected as one of the finalists of  Dean’s Award for Graduate Research Excellence!

September 2022 – Congratulations to Jinping on the acceptance of your manuscript in ACS Chemical Biology!

August 2022 – Congratulations to Brett on the successful defense of his PhD. Best of luck at Emory University!

August 2022 – Congratulations to Jinping, Vicki and Gerry on the acceptance of your manuscript in Journal of Biological Chemistry!

March 2022 – Congratulations to Jinping for being awarded an ACS Division of Biological Chemistry Travel Award!

January 2022 – Welcome to the Wencewicz lab, new graduate students, Hope Lovell and Collin Merrick!

January 2022 – Congratulations to Jinping on the publication of your manuscript in Journal of Natural Products!

2021

August 2021 – Congratulations to Vicki on the successful defense of her PhD. Best of luck at Washington University School of Medicine!

November 2021 – Congratulations to Jinping on receiving the Dr. Max Wolfsberg Fellowship!

June 2021 – Congratulations to Tabbetha, Luting, and Vicki on the acceptance of your manuscript in ACS Infectious Diseases!

April 2021 – Congratulations to Chanez on winning the 2021 Association of Women Faculty Student Award!

March 2021 – Congratulations to Emily for being awarded the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship!

2020

December 2020 – Welcome to the Wencewicz lab, new graduate student Ruihao Li!

December 2020 – Congratulations to Dr. Erin Gemmell on the successful defense of her PhD. Best of luck at Mallinckrodt Pharmaceuticals!

December 2020 – Congratulations to Dr. Luting Fang on the successful defense of her PhD. Best of luck at Bayer!

November 2020 – Congratulations to Emily on the successful defense of her prethesis! 

May 2020 – Congratulations to Jana, Luting and Chanez on the acceptance of your manuscript in Communications Biology!

March 2020 – Congratulations to Nathan, Gerry and Jinping on the acceptance of your manuscript in ACS Central Science!

January 2020 – Congratulations to Vicki for being awarded an ACS YCC Leadership Development Award!

2019

December 2019 – Welcome to the Wencewicz lab, new graduate student Emily Williford!

December 2019 – Congratulations to Jinping on the successful defense of her prethesis! 

November 2019 – Congratulations to Gerry on the successful defense of his PhD. Good luck at Bayer!

July 2019 – Congratulations to Erin on the publication of your manuscript in Nature communications!

July 2019 – Congratulations to Nate on the successful defense of his PhD. Good luck at University of Michigan!

May 2019 – Congratulations to our PI, Tim Wencewicz, on being named a 2019 Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar!

April 2019 – Congratulations to Jana on the publication of your manuscript in the current issue of ACS Infectious Diseases! Good luck at AbbVie med chem!

February 2019 – Congratulations to Dr. Tabbetha Bohac on the successful defense of her PhD. Best of luck at NAI Consulting!

February 2019 – Congrats to Tabbetha and Luting on the acceptance of your manuscript in ACS Chemical Biology.

January 2019 – Welcome to the Wencewicz Lab, new graduate student Jinping Yang!

2018

October 2018 – Welcome to the Wencewicz Lab, Dr. Caitlin DeAngelo!

May 2018 – Congratulations, Jana and Tim, on the acceptance of your review, “Tetracycline-Inactivating Enzymes,” to Frontiers in Microbiology!

May 2018 – Congratulations, Jana, on receiving a W. M. Keck Postdoctoral Fellowship!

May 2018 – Congratulations, Jana, on being named a 2018 CAS Scifinder Future Leader!

April 2018 – Congratulations, Jana and Tyler, on the acceptance of your manuscript, “Stream-lined synthesis of 3-hydroxy-beta-lactams: Norrish-Yang type II photocyclizations of beta-ketoformamides,” to Tetrahedron!

February 2018 – Congratulations to our PI, Tim Wencewicz, on being named a 2018 Sloan Research Fellow

2017

December 2017 – Congratulations, Dr. Justin Shapiro, on the successful defense of your Doctoral Dissertation! Good luck in your new post-doctoral position with Associate Professor Bill Wuest at Emory University!

December 2017 – Congratulations, Erin, on your successful prethesis defense! You’re a PhD candidate now!

November 2017 – Congratulations, Wei, on your successful prethesis defense! You’re a PhD candidate now!

October 2017 – Congratulations, Garrett and Luting, on your recently accepted paper, “Mechanistic Basis for ATP-Dependent Inhibition of Glutamine Synthetase by Tabtoxinine-β-lactam,” in Biochemistry!

October 2017 – Congratulations, Tabbetha and Justin, on your recently accepted paper, “Rigid Oxazole Acinetobactin Analog Blocks Siderophore Cycling in Acinetobacter baumannii,” in ACS Infectious Diseases! 

May 2017 – Congratulations to Nate, Mars, Jason, and Chanez on your recently accepted papers in ACS Infectious Diseases and Nature Chemical Biology (Holy smokes! There are three of them)!

March 2017 – Congratulations, Justin, on your recently accepted paper, “Structure–function studies of acinetobactin analogs,” in Metallomics!

2016

December 2016 – Congratulations, Neha Prasad, on your graduation! Good luck in graduate school!

September 2016 – Welcome to the Wencewicz lab, Dr. Jana Markley!

June 2016 – Good luck at Johns Hopkins, Garrett Patrick! We wish you success as you start the MD/PhD program!

May 2016 ­– Congrats to Tyler Morse on the successful defense of his Master’s thesis!

2015

December 2015 – Welcome to the Wencewicz lab, new graduate students Tabbetha Bohac, Luting Fang and Chanez Symister!

2014

December 2014 – Welcome to the Wencewicz lab, new graduate students Gerry Rivera and Nathaniel Endicott!

2013

December 2013 – Welcome to the Wencewicz lab, new graduate students Justin Shapiro, Tyler Morse, Jason Schaffer and Mars Reck!