Author: Johan Leveau

He will start in July at the Biospecimen Bank which is  based out of the Radiation Oncology Department at the University of California, San Francisco. Congrats Davis!

With this award, Conrad joins the 2024 Summer Undergraduate Research Program (SURP) cohort at the College of Biological Sciences. Congratulations Conrad! Looking forward to all your exciting discoveries in the lab over summer.

Congratulations to Tyler for completing his dissertation and for soon starting a postdoc position with the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in their Complex Microbial Systems Group. Tyler’s exit seminar is scheduled for Friday, April 19 at 1 PM via Zoom: https://tinyurl.com/TylerLairdExit-Seminar.

That was on November 8, 2023. Congratulations Aly!

That was on October 5, 2023. Congratulations Mira!

Congratulations Peter, well deserved!

Congratulations Darren, good luck, and go Tritons.

Congratulations to lab alumn Isaac Greenhut and his family on the birth of baby Violet! Lab Leveau wishes Violet and her proud parents and sister every bit of happiness together.

Neptali Flores, who spent his summer in Lab Leveau on a National Summer Undergraduate Research Project, won an award for Best Presentation by NSURP. Congratulations Neptali! The winning presentation, a narrated powerpoint slide show entitled ‘A Study of IAA-Catabolizing Bacteria’, will be posted on the NSURP website (https://nsurp.org).

Saddened by the news that Flynn Picardal passed away earlier this month. I have fond memories of sharing lab time with him back in the days at the EAWAG. Wherever Flynn is now, I hope they let him bring his guitar.