Joiner Lab News & Announcements

Summer 2024

• 06/03/2024 – Yousef Abualatta and returning student Huy Huynh will be conducting researching this summer for CURI 2024! Welcome Yousef and Welcome Back Huy! This is going to be a great summer!

Spring 2023

• CONGRATULATIONS TO OUR GRADUATING SENIORS – Kate Desrochers, Yalda Pourshaban, Melanie Roberts, and Jack Taylor! We are going to miss you all SO much! :D
  • Kate has committed to the University of Michigans’s PhD Program in Chemical Biology for graduate school! Congrats, Kate!! 
  • Melanie has committed to the University of California – San Diegos’s Chemistry PhD Program for graduate school!! Congrats, Melanie!! 
  • Yalda has committed to a Research Assistant position at the Mesulam Center for Cognitive Neurology and Alzheimer’s Disease at Northwestern University!! Congrats, Yalda!!
• The Joiner Lab was awards a $3,000 FLC Professional Development Grant to work on the SPY project! Can’t wait to see all of the great kinetics data!
• 02/2023 – Kas Padilla ’27 (EMERGE Scholar) and Amelia Christenson ’25 have joined our lab! Welcome Kas and Amelia – we can’t wait to see you grow as chemists!

Fall 2023

• 11/10/2023 – 11/11/2023 – Yalda presented her research at the Midstates Consortium for Math and Science Symposium in Biology and Psychology! Congrats, Yalda!
• 10/2023 – Yalda, Meghan, Rose, Anna, and Ella presented their CURI Summer research for the Board of Regents! Congrats on a fantastic poster session – President Rundell Singer and the Board of Regents were very impressed! 
• 10/05/2023 – Yalda, Meghan, Rose, Anna, and Ella presented their CURI Summer research at the CURI 2023 Fall Showcase! Congrats on a fantastic poster session!
• 09/01/2023 – Tiarra Glogowski ’23 has joined our lab as a Post-Baccalaureate Researcher! Welcome Tiarra, you are going to do amazing things!

Summer 2023

• 05/30/2023 – Anna Lundstad, Yalda Pourshaban, Ella Yarris, returning student Meghan Moore, and McNair Scholar, Rose Lopez have joined the lab for CURI 2023! Welcome all, we are going to have a great summer!
•  04/2023 – The Joiner Lab was awarded their NIH R15 Equipment Supplement to purchase a multi-mode plate reader! 

Spring 2023

• CONGRATULATIONS TO OUR GRADUATING SENIORS – Kate Dallmier, Simón Gutiérrez, Holly Petersen, Madi Rognerud, and Ben Westrum! We are going to miss you all SO much! :D
  • Kate has committed to the University of Minnesota’s Chemistry PhD Program for graduate school! Congrats, Kate!! 
  • Holly has committed to the University of Alabama – Birmingham’s Biochemistry and Structural Biology PhD Program for graduate school!! Congrats, Holly!! 
  • Ben has committed to a Surgical Dermatology Medical Assistant position at Tareen Dermatology during his gap year! Congrats, Ben!!
• Jack will be working at the Hennepin County Medical Center this summer as a Rockswold Health Scholar! Congrats, Jack! 
• Kate Desrochers and Huy Huynh will both be doing research through the SURF program at the Mayo Clinic for the summer! Congrats, Kate and Huy!
• Melanie will be in Boston this summer working on renewable energy system! Congrats, Melanie!
• 03/01/2023 – Abby Towle has joined the lab as an EMERGE Scholar! Congrats and welcome, Abby! 
• 02/06/2023 – Simón Gutiérrez, Peter Leach, Eli Moore, Meghan Moore, and Ben Westrum have joined the lab! Welcome everyone, we are going to have an amazing semester!

Fall 2022

• 09/01/2022 – The Joiner Lab was awarded a 3-year NIH R15 AREA Grant titled “Understanding the mechanism of adaptor protein engagement by OGT and its functional effects on glycosylation”. We look forward to all the amazing science to come! 

Summer 2022

• 07/29/2022 – Professor Joiner welcomed her daughter and the newest Joiner Lab member to the world. Welcome Amelia Rose! 
• 05/31/2022 – Huy Huynh, Holly Petersen, Madi Rognerud, and returning students Hahns Huebsch and Jack Taylor have joined the lab for CURI 2022! Welcome all, we are going to have a great summer!

SPRING 2022

• CONGRATULATIONS TO OUR GRADUATING SENIORS – Kaitlyn Chalfant, Dana Nelson, Kaylee Philbrick, Erin NewRingeisen, and Jenelle Rolli! We are going to miss you all SO much! :D 
• Erin has committed to Berkeley’s Molecular and Cellular Biology Program for graduate school! Congrats, Erin!! 
• Kaylee has committed to the NIH’s Postbac IRTA program and will be continuing their work with OGT in Prof. John Hanover’s lab! Congrats, Kaylee!! 
• Dana has accepted an offer from Cellular Dynamics in Madison, WI. She will be working on research and development using extracellular vesicles. Congrats, Dana!!
• Kaitlyn has committed to Oakland University for Medical School! Congrats, Kaitlyn!!
• Kate Desrochers has been accepted into the University of Michigan’s NSF REU program in the College of Pharmacy! She will be working with Prof. Chase Weidmann in the Biological Chemistry Department this summer! Congrats, Kate! 
• Melanie has been accepted into the Washington University in St. Louis Mechanobiology REU program. She will be doing research looking at biotransport of the aortic wall in mice in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science! Congrats, Melanie!
• 02/08/2022 – Hahns Huebsch has joined the group. Welcome Hahns!!
• 02/02/2022 – Dana’s, Kaylee’s, and Jenelle’s abstracts were accepted for the ASBMB’s 2022 Annual Conference in April. Congrats Dana, Kaylee, and Jenelle!!
• 01/22/2022 – Kate Dallmier has been accepted to the 2022 Snyder Scholar’s Summer Program at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign! Congrats Kate, the van der Donk group is lucky to have you! 
• 01/13/2022 – Dana was awarded the ASBMB’s Student Chapters Travel Award for ASBMB’s 2022 Annual Conference in April! Congrats Dana!!

FALL 2021

• 10/25/2021 – The SEC and SPY abstracts were accepted for the Midstates Consortium’s Physical Sciences, Math & Computer Science Research Symposium on November 13! Congrats Kate, Jack, Jenelle, Kate, Dana, and Kaylee!!
• 09/09/2021 – Grace Wu and Melanie Roberts have joined the group. Welcome Grace and Melanie!!

SUMMER 2021

• 06/01/2021 – Kate Dallmier, Kate Desrochers, Dana Nelson, Kaylee Philbrick, Jenelle Rolli, and Jack Taylor have joined the lab for CURI 2021! Welcome all, we are going to have a great summer!

SPRING 2021

• 05/29/2021 – Hadia graduates from St. Olaf College! Congrats and happy graduation, Hadia! We are all going to miss you! 
• 02/15/2021 – Kaitlyn Chalfant, Hadia Mohammadazah, Erin NewRingeisen, Brian Olson, and Jenelle Rolli have joined the lab! Welcome all, it is great to have you as the first Joiner Lab members!