{"id":502,"date":"2021-06-29T16:06:38","date_gmt":"2021-06-29T20:06:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/williamslab.ccny.cuny.edu\/?page_id=502"},"modified":"2024-12-26T20:43:23","modified_gmt":"2024-12-27T01:43:23","slug":"news","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/williamslab.ccny.cuny.edu\/?page_id=502","title":{"rendered":"Old News"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>August 2023: As the lab begins its fifth year, it also graduates its first PhD student&#8211;congrats on your defense Pooja!!<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>August 2023: Welcome to new undergrad students Julia Simon and Taseen Taraqnova!<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>August 2023: Welcome to new PhD student Adnan Arnaout! Also, congrats to Pratyusha Ghosh for moving from the MS to the PhD program!<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>August 2023: The lab is awarded an NIGMS equipment supplement grant to purchase a NIR hyperspectral microscope!<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>August 2023: Myesha successfully defended her Master&#8217;s thesis!<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>June 2023: Welcome to new summer lab members: Sofia Kasthelyan, Hanan Yafai, Pritilata Islam, and Christopher Dyjak!<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>June 2023: 7 members of the lab presented at the 2023 American Chemical Society Mid-Atlantic Regional Meeting at the Graduate Center: Anastasiia, Pratyusha, Myesha, Zachary, Atara, Pooja, and Amelia all presented posters!<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Congrats to our grads! Pratyusha from the BME Master&#8217;s program, Sergio and Sadiyah as BME undergrads, and Arantxa with a Master&#8217;s from Pace University!<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>May 2023: 5 lab members attended the Electrochemical Society Annual Meeting in Boston. Ryan, Pooja, and Amelia presented talks, while Zachary and Atara presented posters. We had a great meeting!<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>May 2023: BME Day 2023 saw most of the lab present their posters and we had two Master&#8217;s student awards: Pratyusha Ghosh and Myesha Thahsin! Sadiyah Parveen also won an undergraduate research award!<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>April 2023: Congrats to Pooja for winning one of three NanoBioNYC PhD Program student awards at the program kickoff! And congrats to all 6 grad students for presenting their research!<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>March 2023: Anastasiia, Arantxa, and Myesha presented their work at the 2023 AAPS NERDG meeting at St. John&#8217;s University. Anastasiia won the 2nd place poster prize!<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>December 2022: Welcome to new technician Syeda Rahman!<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>October 2022: The lab is awarded Supplement funding from the CCNY-MSK partnership for 2023 to pursue research into oxidative stress in onconephrology.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>October 2022: The lab&#8217;s second paper in the <em>Journal of Solid State Science and Technology&nbsp;<\/em>is published by first-author Zachary! We are on a roll!<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>September 2022: The lab published its first paper in&nbsp;<em>Pharmaceutical Research<\/em>. Congrats to current and former members Rachel and Arantxa on being co-first authors!<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>September 2022: The lab is awarded NIH funding from the National Cancer Institute through the CCNY-MSK partnership! Congrats team!<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>September 2022: The lab is awarded a NIH Research Supplement to fund the training of new PhD student Atara Israel! Congrats Atara!<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>August 2022: The lab welcomes new undergrad students Jeremy Aguilar and Yumna Ahmed!<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>August 2022: The Williams Lab is growing again&#8211;this time we welcome new PhD students Atara Israel and Anastasiia Vasylaki!<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>August 2022: The lab is pleased to welcome new Master&#8217;s student Myesha Thahsin! We are also excited to welcome undergraduates Sergio Garcia and Georgina Castellano!<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>June 2022: We are excited to work with Sadiyah Parveen as a NSF STEM Summer Fellow and Abdel Ahmed as a BME REU student this summer!<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>June 2022: Congrats to our graduating undergrads! Carolina Cen Feng, Carol Lopez, Rooshi Parikh, and Krystin Frederick!<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>March 2022: PhD Student Pooja Gaikwad is awarded a CUNY Graduate Center Dissertation Year Award!<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>March 2022: PhD Student Amelia Ryan was accepted into the<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ccny.cuny.edu\/grise\"> CCNY G-RISE Program<\/a>! Congrats Amelia!<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>February 2022: Welcome to new postdoc Nikunj Visaveliya! Excited to work with you!<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>January 2022: We are excited to welcome new Master&#8217;s students Pratyusha Ghosh!<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>October 2021: Welcome to new postdoc Jun Zhou! We&#8217;re excited you are a part of the team!<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>September 2021: We are happy to welcome new technician Arantxa Roach to the Williams Lab!!<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>August 2021: The Williams Lab welcomes new BME PhD student Amelia Ryan!!<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>August 2021: The Williams Lab received an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nigms.nih.gov\/research\/mechanisms\/mira\/pages\/default.aspx\">NIH NIGMS R35<\/a> MIRA ESI grant! This award will fund our work in using nanosensors to study cytokine biology in chronic disease from 2021-2026. Great job team!<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>August 2021: The Williams Lab received a 2021 <a href=\"https:\/\/asrc.gc.cuny.edu\/\">ASRC Seed Grant<\/a>! Congrats team!<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>June 2021: Ryan Williams receives an<a href=\"https:\/\/www.orau.org\/university-partnerships\/member-grant-programs\/powe\/index.html\"> Oak Ridge Associated Universities<\/a> Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Enhancement Award! Congrats to the lab team!<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>June 2021: Uriel Alvira and Jalen Crespo join the lab as CCNY-MSK PURT summer students! Welcome!<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>August 2020: The Williams Lab welcomes new PhD students Pooja Gaikwad and Lauren Prudhomme!!<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>July 2020: The lab re-opens at reduced capacity<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>May 2020: Erin Keblish receives CCNY \u2013 NSF STEM Summer Research Internship and Rashida Zannat Akifa receives ICCAE Summer Internship!<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>March 2020: Campus is shut down for COVID-19<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>January 2020: First full-group research activities<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>November 2019: First group meeting<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>August 2019: Dr. Williams joins CCNY BME!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-502","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/williamslab.ccny.cuny.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/502","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/williamslab.ccny.cuny.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/williamslab.ccny.cuny.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/williamslab.ccny.cuny.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/williamslab.ccny.cuny.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=502"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/williamslab.ccny.cuny.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/502\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":912,"href":"https:\/\/williamslab.ccny.cuny.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/502\/revisions\/912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/williamslab.ccny.cuny.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}