Two students from the Reynolds lab, Sumiya and Alex, graduated this weekend! We’ll miss you in the lab but wish you the best in all the exciting things you have planned for the future!
Faculty Ligtning Talk
I had a great time participating in our library’s faculty lightning talk series this fall. I presented on our research engineering thiamine-dependent enzymes for chemical synthesis. It was also really fun learning about the research of my colleagues from other fields.
Tarhelium Feature
This was a fun feature on my work with hosting ACS Project SEED students for summer research that was published in the NC-ACS section newsletter, the Tarhelium. Project SEED is a great program and I really encourage high school students to take a look, as well as professors to consider hosting a student!
Here is the feature:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/13tESWxGmatqT9rGRvjYpiJuEb05_WM3F/view
And here is the Project SEED website:
Summer Research 2024
Had a blast this summer working with Rachel as part of Campbell’s Howard Research Fellows program and Kyra as part of ACS Project SEED! They made great progress and learned a lot! Looking forward to their presentations coming up, and ready to continue the work this school year!
Rachel giving the Bradford assay a good stare to scare it straight
Those E. coli colonies can’t hide from Kyra!
NSF LEAPS-MPS Award
Very excited to announce that we were awarded a Launching Early-Career Academic Pathways in the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (LEAPS-MPS) Grant from the NSF! We’ll be receiving $250,000 over the next 2 years to support our work using thiamine-dependent for asymmetric catalysis. A major goal of the project is to broaden participation in STEM by providing students with greater opportunities for research here at Campbell. We’re excited about the impact this grant will have on our research, and especially the benefits it will bring to our students! Here is the link to the Campbell News release:
You can also read more about the work in the abstract on the NSF website:
https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2417808&HistoricalAwards=false
Yarbrough Grant
Congratulations to Rachel on being two for two on grant applications this spring! She was awarded a Yarbrough grant from the NC Academy of Science to fund our research on thiamine-dependent enzymes! We are grateful for the support and look forward to getting to work!
Overcoming the Status Quo Award
Excited to announce that I was awarded an Overcoming the Status Quo Award from Campbell University in recognition of my work supporting students of color in STEM through the GAINS (Growing Alliances in STEM) mentoring program. I am excited to continue working to grow and improve the program for our students in the years to come! For more information about the GAINS program, see our website and follow our Instagram page for the latest updates!
NCICU Undergraduate Research Award
Congratulations to Rachel for being awarded an NCICU undergraduate research award in the amount of $600 to fund our work with cross-coupling reactions using thiamine-dependent enzymes this summer! We’ll be presenting the work at SNCURCS in the fall. Looking forward to a fun summer of research! Read the full announcement here.
NCAS 2024
The Reynolds lab had five students present posters at the NC Academy of Science Annual Meeting this weekend at Winston-Salem State University! Rachel and Nick took home first and second place, respectively, in the Cell/Molecular Biology category! Congrats to all who presented!
Rachel won a 1st place Derieux award for her poster presentation in the Cell/Molecular Biology category!
Nick won the 2nd place Derieux award for his poster presentation in the Cell/Molecular Biology category!
Side by side poster buddies again!
Sumiya captivating her audience with cloning results
Angelique highlighting a beautiful protein structure
Charlie was our lone presenter in the microbiology category but we still like him anyways (not really sure how categories are assigned).
Campbell Chemistry & Physics had a great group - 11 students presented, with 5 awards won!
The 2024 NCAS meeting crew!
Wiggins Symposium 2024
We had a great group of students present at Campbell’s Wiggins Symposium this year! Angelique, Alex, Charlie, Rachel, Sumiya and Savannah and Celia all presented their work. We even won some awards! Angelique came away with a merit award, and Sumiya earned high merit! Congrats to the award winners and all our presenters! It’s an honor to be a mentor to these great scientists. We’ll keep things rolling with the NCAS meeting next week!
Alex explaining his work cloning SucA mutants for our Chem 432 project.
This one may or may not have been staged…only Rachel knows.
Angelique making a good impression on the poster judge.
Charlie presenting his work engineering laccases for nonnatural biocatalysis.
Celia (and Savannah) presented their work on the Design-to-Data national CURE project that we did in Biol 280 in the fall.
Savannah taking over. Great team work!
The Chemistry & Physics department award winners! Great job Sumiya, Angelique, and Mia! Our department received two-thirds of the undergraduate poster high merit awards!
All of the Wiggins award winners! Great job everyone!