A wonderful full-circle moment this past Friday when we hosted Prof. Warren Chan (@TheChanLab) from @NTUsg as our @UTEPBME Seminar speaker 🎓✨ Having my former PhD mentor fly across the world to visit my lab, meet my students, & inspire the department meant the world to me💡🥹🙌🏻 – at El Paso, TX

Very proud of @ThePoonLab undergrad students who presented their summer research posters yesterday at the COURI Summer Symposium! 👏🏻👏🏻 Xiomara presented her receptor KO work 👩‍🔬🧪🧫🔬, while Rayce showcased his lateral flow assay development for wound management 👨‍🔬🏥🩹🦠! #proudPI – at El Paso, TX

Huge congrats to @Mariomata099 for successfully defending his MS thesis yesterday - accepted as is with no corrections! 👨‍🎓⚗️🔬🐁 He is the 1st @UTEPBME grad of @ThePoonLab & I'm so proud of what he has pioneered in not only my lab, but also the IBN imaging core! 🥳🎉🍾👏🏻 #proudPI

What a privilege it is to once again be the history speaker at the @UTEP Engineering Pre-Commencement Order of the Engineer & Hooding Ceremony! Congrats to all the new initiates & a special shout-out to @Mariomata099, soon-to-be 2nd MS grad from @ThePoonLab ! 🎓🥂🍾🙌🏻 – at El Paso, TX

Extremely proud of @ThePoonLab this academic year, we cleaned up at the MMBME Annual Banquet last night!🥳🎉🍾🥂 4 graduates, 2 research awards, 2 departmental achievement awards, 2 academic honors, and 2 student organization recognitions! 🎓🎖️🏆🥇 #proudPI – at El Paso, TX

Our latest research from @ThePoonLab - "Development of Chemical Tags for Universal Lipid Nanoparticle Visualization and Tracking in 2D and 3D Imaging" - is now published in @NanoLetters! ✨🔬🧫🐁 Learn more about our SPARKLE tags here: pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs…

Thank you @CTiannano for inviting me to visit @VT_Science! 🦃🎓🧪⚗️ It was a pleasure giving my lecture in Advanced Nanomedicine, sharing @ThePoonLab research, and connecting with the brilliant faculty & students! Grateful for the hospitality & insightful conversations! ✨🔬👨🏻‍🔬💡

Friends! I'll be at #ACSSpring2025 in San Diego this week! Come check out my talk in the @ACS_BIOT / @POLY_ACS session on Delivery and Targeting of Nanoparticles on Tues Mar 25 afternoon! 🚚👨🏻‍🔬🧪⚗️ Also, please send recommendations for restaurants, cafes, and bars! 🍽️☕️🍻

Thanks @HuPharm_college and Dr Baskaran for inviting me to share the cool research happening in @ThePoonLab at their departmental seminar series! 👨🏻‍🔬💊🔬✨ What a beautiful campus to visit with (some) blooming cherry blossoms! 🌸🌸🌸 – at Washington, DC

Had an amazing time at @TAMESTX 2025 this week in Irving as a TAMEST Protégé! 🙌🏻 🎉💡 Many thanks to my @UTEPBME program director Thomas Boland for the nomination, and the organizers for selecting my work as one of the top 20 to be featured in the Poster Challenge! 👨🏻‍🔬🏅 🔬 ✨ – at Irving, TX

Super proud of @ThePoonLab students @Deepalibisht09 & @DenicePete83047 for doing an excellent job presenting their posters at #BMES2024 this afternoon! Thanks to everyone who stopped by to check out our research! #proudPI #newPI 🤩🤩🤩 – at Baltimore, MD

Very busy day today - commuted 3h to NIH in Bethesda this morning from Baltimore 🚆🚇, but it was so worth it to learn about BME collab opportunities, presenting my research, & networking with program officers! 👨‍⚕️👷‍♂️👨‍🔬 Thank you @NIBIBgov & @DrPlattLab for organizing this! #newPI – at Bethesda, MD

Had a great time at @SFBiomaterials Southwest Regional Meeting today! 🌞🏜️🐃 Finally met my @UTTRC4 mentor @Guda_Lab in-person and my @ThePoonLab students @HanniaBalcorta & @Mariomata099 did fantastic jobs presenting their #LNP research posters! 👨‍🔬👩‍🔬🔬 #proudPI #newPI – at Austin, TX

We celebrated the 2nd year anniversary of @ThePoonLab today!! 🥳🍾🎂🎉 Feeling thankful to have all these amazing scientists & engineers as part of the lab! 🫶🏻😊💖 Hoping for even more success this upcoming year! ✨💪🏻 (P.S.: cake flavour is fruit mostachon) – at El Paso, TX

Super proud of @ThePoonLab undergrad COURI SURPASS students Melissa and Estefania for presenting their summer research work on LNP high-throughput synthesis and screening at the COURI Symposium this morning! #proudPI #newPI 👩‍🔬⚗️🧪🧬 – at El Paso, TX

Congratulations to my faculty mentor and colleague @BinataJoddar! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 @OregonStateCBEE is extremely lucky to have you and we will miss you dearly at @UTEPBME 🥲🥲🥲 Looking forward to continuing our collaborations! 👩🏽‍🔬🫱🏽‍🫲🏻👨🏻‍🔬

Co-hosted a ChimeraX tutorial workshop for graduate students with my PhD student @Deepalibisht09 & @UTEPCHEMISTRY colleague Prof. Mahesh Narayan today! 🧬🔬🖥️🖱️ Many thanks to @jscdavis, @PiotrSliz, & @SBGrid for training us as trainers back in April! – at El Paso, TX

Productivity in @ThePoonLab is at an all time high this summer 👨‍🔬🔬⚽📺 #newPI #EURo2024 – at El Paso, TX

How it started vs. how it ended. Congrats @vgcontr23 on your MS graduation from @ThePoonLab! 🎓💐🥳🍾