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News from 2024

• 03-01-24 Graduate Student Alan Brown selected to receive the GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) Graduate Fellowship from the Eberly College of Science

News from 2023

• 12-15-23 Postdoctoral Fellow Gabe Rangel receives Poster Award at PSU Postdoc Research Symposium
• 10-04-23 Graduate Student Ritwik Singhal receives Honorable Mention Poster Award at MPMXXXIV
• 09-07-23 Manuel awarded the Ernest C. Pollard Professorship in Biotechnology
• 06-08-23 Graduate Student Ritwik Singhal selected as winner of the ASTMH ACMCIP 3 Minute Thesis Competition for which he was awarded an oral presentation at ASTMH 2023
• 06-01-23 Graduate Student TJ Russell receives the 2022-2023 Wedler Award for the best PhD dissertation in BMB
• 04-06-23 Graduate Student Victoria Bonnell receives the Graduate Student Excellence in Mentoring Award

News from 2022

• 12-16-22 Graduate Student TJ Russell receives the Peter Hudson Best Student Paper Award from the Huck Center for Infectious Disease Dynamics (CIDD)
• 10-11-22 Postdoctoral Fellow Gabe Rangel receives Honorable Mention Poster Award at MPMXXXIII
• 02-17-22 Manuel named Distinguished Professor of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology and of Chemistry

News from 2021

• 05-19-21 Postdoctoral Fellow Riëtte Van Biljon award First Place Oral Presentation prize at the 2021 Life Sciences Symposium
• 04-27-21 Manuel receives the 2021 Penn State Faculty Scholar Medal for Outstanding Achievement

News from 2020

• 12-11-20 Postdoctoral Fellow Philippa Reuterswärd awarded International Postdoc grant from the Swedish Research Council
• 10-15-20 Postdoctoral Fellow Gabe Rangel receives Best Poster award at MPM XXXI
• 10-15-20 Graduate student Tori Bonnell receives Honorable Mention Poster award at MPM XXXI
• 09-25-20 Postdoctoral Fellow Riëtte van Biljon awarded 3rd place Poster award at Penn State's Annual Postdoc Exhibition
• 06-15-20 Graduate Student TJ Russell featured on BMB site
• 05-10-20 UG Student Cuyler Luck selected as 2020 Eberly College of Science Marshal
• 04-27-20 UG Studente Erin Kelly wins the Peter T. Luckie Award for Outstanding Research by a junior post award at the 2020 PSU UG Research Exhibition
• 03-24-20 UG Student Cuyler Luck wins Fred Wedler award for Outstanding Undergraduate Dissertation in BMB
• 01-13-20 Postdoctoral researcher Philippa Reuterswärd joins the lab.

News from 2019

• 09-30-19 Postdoctoral researcher Gabriel Rangel joins the lab.
• 10-23-19 Graduate student Tori Bonnell receives Best Poster award for second year in a row at MPM XXX
• 10-14-19 Undergraduate students Erin Kelly and Michelle Suhendra awarded UG Research Funding
• 06-10-19 Graduate student Tori Bonnell is the 2019 recipient of the Paul M. Althouse Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award
• 05-10-19 Graduate student TJ Russell receives 1st place for his Lightning Talk at the 4th Annual Life Science Symposium at Penn State
• 04-22-19 Undergraduate student Cuyler Luck awarded the John Sr. and Kimlyn Patishnock Award for Information Literacy Grand Prize at the PSU 2019 UG Exhibition
• 04-17-19 Undergraduate student Michelle Suhendra awarded BMB Summer UG Research Fellowship

News from 2018

• 10-12-18 Graduate student Tori Bonnell receives Best Poster award at MPM XXIX
• 03-23-18 Undergraduate student Kate Payson receives 2018 Society of Analytical Chemists of Pittsburgh College Chemistry Award
• 02-27-18 Undergraduate student Michelle Suhendra awarded RISE Germany summer research internship

News from 2017

• 12-11-17 Graduate student Tori Bonnell joins the lab
• 12-01-17 Lab Manager Lindsey Orchard wins Eberly College Staff Excellence Award
• 11-14-17 Graduate student Justin Munro joins the lab
• 09-27-17 Graduate student Suprita Singh receives Best Poster award at MPM XXVIII
• 09-27-17 Postdoctoral fellow Heather Painter receives Best Teaser Talk award at MPM XXVIII
• 06-01-17 Postdoctoral fellow Gaby Josling receives talk award at the 2017 BioMalPar Meeting
• 06-14-17 PfAP2-I, a potential new target for anti-malarial drugs identified
• 03-06-17 $4.7 million Gates malaria funding highlighted in Penn State News

News from 2016

• 12-09-16 Graduate student Timothy (TJ) Russell joins the lab
• 11-07-16 Kate Payson receives UG Research Funding
• 02-01-16 Postdoctoral fellow Erik Allman receives NIAID F32 Postdoctoral Fellowship
• 01-01-16 Postdoctoral fellow Gabrielle Josling receives American Heart Association Fellowship

News from 2015

• 11-03-15 Jarrett Venezia receives UG Research Funding
• 10-12-15 Postdoctoral fellow Gabrielle Josling receives poster award at MPM XXVI
• 04-07-15 Kayla Paulosky receives UG Summer Discovery Grant
• 01-01-15 Postdoctoral researcher Erin Butterfield joins the lab

News from 2014

• 09-01-14 Postdoctoral fellow Gabrielle Josling receives Australia to USA Fellowship
• 04-01-14 Postdoctoral fellow Heather Painter receives K22 Research Scholar Development Award from NIH
• 09-01-14 Postdoctoral researcher Gabrielle Josling joins the lab
• 03-31-14 Josh Rice receives Undergraduate Summer Discovery Grant
• 02-20-14 Discovery of key gametocyte regulator highlighted in the Penn State News
• 02-18-14 Graduate student Suprita Singh joins the lab
• 01-22-14 Llinas lab featured in the Huck Institutes News

News from 2013

• 11-04-13 Postdoctoral researcher Erik Allman joins the lab
• 10-01-13 Postdoctoral fellow Joana Santos receives poster award at the 2013 Molecular Parasitology Meeting
• 07-01-13 Llinas lab moves to Penn State University!

News from 2012

• 11-01-12 Llinás receives Gates Foundation Grand Challenges Exploration grant.
• 10-23-12 Postdoctoral fellow Björn Kafsack receives talk award at the 2012 Molecular Parasitology Meeting
• 09-17-12 Postdoctoral researcher Valerie Crowley joins the lab
• 04-20-12 Undergraduate student Shivani Sud awarded Dale Fellowship

News from 2011

• 10-28-11 Joana Santos awarded Pfizer Prize for Infectious Disease
• 2011 Welcome Aedan, Anders, and Logan – our THREE new lab babies!
• 06-06-11 Joana Santos awarded EMBO Postdoctoral Fellowship
• 06-06-11 Postdoctoral researcher Simon Cobbold joins the lab.
• 05-23-11 Graduate student April Williams joins the lab
• 05-18-11 Björn Kafsack receives poster award at BioMalPar
• 02-16-11 Kellen receives Harold M. Weintraub Graduate Student Award
• 04-18-11 Postdoctoral researcher Joana Santos joins the lab

News from 2010

• 11-12-10 Congratulations to Kellen Olszewski as the first Llinas lab Ph.D. graduate
• 10-09-10 Jessica O’Hara receives graduate student teaching award
• 08-05-10 Branched TCA metabolism manuscript published in Nature
• 04-09-10 Erandi De Silva awarded Honorific Fellowship for excellence in research
• 05-31-10 Neal Yuan receives Molecular Biology award for his outstanding senior thesis
• 04-05-10 Postdoctoral researcher Ian Lewis joins the lab

News from 2009

• 11-24-09 Björn Kafsack awarded Damon Runyon Cancer Institute Postdoctoral Fellowship
• 11-24-09 Mark Wacker receives 2009 ASTMH Young Investigator Award
• 11-03-09 Graduate student Louis Sarry receives poster award at the 2009 Molecular Parasitology Meeting
• 08-01-09 Postdoctoral researcher Björn Kafsack joins the lab
• 04-06-09 Postdoctoral researcher Heather Painter joins the lab
• 04-02-09 Amadeo Llinás joins the lab
• 02-19-09 Llinás lab publishes first paper on Plasmodium metabolomics in Cell, Host & Microbe

News from 2008

• 10-16-08 Kellen Olszewski receives talk award at the 2008 Molecular Parasitology Meeting
• 06-28-08 Lakshmanan Viswanathan receives best poster award at the 2008 Host-Parasite Interactions Gordon Conference
• 05-19-08 Graduate students Jessica O’Hara and Louis Sarry join the lab
• 04-12-08 Tracey Campbell receives Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada Postdoctoral Fellowship
• 04-08-08 Alex O’Choa receives NSF Graduate Research Fellowship

News from 2007

• 10-08-07 Llinás featured in Princeton Weekly Bulletin
• 09-19-07 Llinás Selected for NIH Director’s Innovator Award
• 10-03-07 Erandi De Silva receives talk award at the 2007 Molecular Parasitology Meeting
• 05-14-07 Graduate students Erandi De Silva, Alejandro O’Choa and Irene Ying join the lab
• 05-10-07 Llinás selected for Burroughs Wellcome Fund Investigators in Pathogenesis of Infectious Disease grant
• 03-12-07 Testing the boundaries of teaching science
• 03-26-07 Kellen Olszewski receives an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship
• 02-15-07 Silvio Szpara Llinás joins the lab

News from 2006

• 11-16-06 Llinás selected for the 2006 Merck Irving S. Sigal Memorial Award from the American Society of Microbiology
• 10-01-06 Kellen Olszewski wins best oral presentation award at 2006 Molecular Biology Departmental retreat
• 09-14-06 Kellen Olszewski receives student talk award at the 2006 Molecular Parasitology Meeting
• 05-26-06 Graduate student Kellen Olszewski joins the lab
• 03-28-06 Llinás selected for Beckman Young Investigator Award