🤩 #BMES2026 here we come! 🛬🌴🏖️ We are excited to represent @UTEPBME with 3 podium presentations on #nanomedicine! @wilsonpoon is also chairing a session on Molecular Sensors & Nanodevices! Come find us, we look forward to catching up and chatting science! 🔬🧬🔎 – at El Paso, TX

Wrapping up an inspiring 2 days at the 2nd Annual @UTSystem Trauma Research Symposium! 🤕🚑🦾🦿 It was great presenting our posters & engaging with the trauma research community. Very grateful to @UTTRC4 for the funding support - we're inspired to keep pushing forward! 👨🏻‍🔬🔬⚗️💉 – at Austin, TX

Happy new year! 🎉 We're kicking off 2025 with excitement as we expand into our newly renovated molecular biology lab space! 🧬⚗️🔬✨ Ready for fresh beginnings and new discoveries ahead! – at El Paso, TX

Happy belated birthday to our masters student @Mariomata099! 🥳🎉🎊 Today's cake flavor is figgy foggy Chantilly! 🌸🍰🍯🍫 – at El Paso, TX

Our lab is at the @BMESociety Annual Meeting in Baltimore, MD this week! We have 3 poster presentations by our PI (@wilsonpoon) and 2 @UTEPBME PhD students (@Deepalibisht09 & @DenicePete83047)! 👨🏻‍🔬👩🏽‍🔬👨🏽‍💻 Come check out our latest #LNP research! 🧬⚗️🧫🔬💉🐁🫁✨ #BMES2024 – at Baltimore, MD

We also have 4 (!) undergrads in the group - Estefania, Melissa, and Hannia rejoin as COURI MERITUS students, and Xiomara is our new OCSEO undergraduate research assistant! 🧪⚗️🔬✨ – at El Paso, TX

Angel rejoins the lab as a staff member - he is our research technician / lab manager! We also have two new graduate students - Jael rejoins as a BME PhD student, and Che joins as a BME MS student! 🫀🧫🧬💉 – at El Paso, TX

New Fall 2024 @ThePoonLab group photo just dropped! We've grown quite a bit since last year, officially introducing our new (and some returning) lab members in this thread! 👨‍🔬👩‍🔬🧑‍🔬 – at El Paso, TX

Our lab will be at @SFBiomaterials Southwest Symposium this week in @UTAustin @UTBiomedical! 🧬🧫🫀🫁 2 of our @UTEPBME students @HanniaBalcorta & @Mariomata099 will present posters on our latest #LNP work! ⚗️💉🔬✨ See y'all there! #SFB #RegionalSymposia2024 – at El Paso, TX

Thanks to our recent grants, we are expanding our lab space! 👨🏻‍🔬🥼🥽 Say hello to our new "temporary" molecular biology and bacterial culture room! ✨🤩🧬🦠 #newPI #BME – at El Paso, TX