December 18 2024. I hosted the lab for our Holiday Party this year. The food was amazing but the company was even better! We celebrated with our significant others and rotation students, and had a blast playing Taboo and Culture Tags. I’m already looking forward to next year’s celebration.
December 5, 2024. The Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics annual retreat in the Poconos at Skytop Lodge was fun! HUGE CONGRATULATIONS to Madhura for winning the 1st place poster prize for best presentation!
December 5, 2024
I nominated Bohdana for the Best Lab Manager of the year award for 2024. Out of over 350 international nominations, she was amongst the top 5 finalists, which was decided by voting on Proteintech’s website. In our hearts, she is the BEST LAB MANAGER ever!
September 2024
The lab welcomed the newest rotation student, Tristan Wrong, to the team. Tristan received her BS in Biochemistry and Chemical Biology from Wayne State University.
We also welcomed the addition of a new undergraduate, Ariana Arabadjiev, to the team. Ariana is an incoming sophomore at Penn planning on majoring in Physics.
August 30th 2024: Dr. Taabazuing is featured in the Australaisian Cell Death Society (ACDS) Newsletter.
JULY 29 2024
The lab was awarded an NIH NIGMS R35 MIRA Grant. This funding will support our work for the next 5 years to uncover the regulation of innate immunity.
June 20th 2024.
Dr. Taabazuing is awarded the Black in Cancer Young Investigator Award. Research funds are provided by the Emerald Foundation to fund our work on developing new cancer immunotherapies.
Congrats to the winners of the postdoc awards, Drs. Whitney Henry and Mike Oliphant. Huge thank you to the Black in Cancer organization and movement and to Dr. James Mahaffey of the Emerald Foundation for selecting our proposal!
We hosted Dr. Freeman Hrabowski III for the second annual Juneteenth Lecture. Dr. Hrabowski delivered an inspiring message about cultivating inclusive excellence to a crowd of ~675.
June 5th 2024
We welcome Teni (picture below left) Matilda (middle), and Robbie (right) to the team for the summer and our invited review titled “Inflammatory caspase substrate specificities” is out online.
Harnessing pyroptosis for cancer immunotherapy, Cells 2024, 13(4), 346
February 2024 The lab celebrates our recent publications and we welcome the new postdoc Madhura to the lab!
January 2024 - Celebrating the January Birthdays, Bohdana, Chris, and Will!!
December 2023 - The annual joint white elephant holiday party with the Bernstein and Tolbert Labs was a blast!
November 30th 2023.
Dr. Taabazuing attends his first BMB retreat where Pat and Chris presented their work.
October 2023. Chris joins the Burroughs Wellcome Fund (BWF) family as a PDEP Fellow! Congrats on the Award Chris!
October 2023, Cornelius participates in a postdoc to faculty transition panel .
Welcome Jan Lopez, a summer student from the CBio program to the lab. Jan will be with us until August 5th.
June 13, 2022
May 27, 2022 - Our new door sign arrived! Come study mechanisms of pyroptosis and apoptosis with us in our brand new lab space.
Dr. Taabazuing sharing his experience in academia and lessons learned with the audience. Representation matters!
April 26, 2022 -Dr. Taabazuing participates in Diversity Week at Weill Cornell. He continues to be passionate about improving diversity and equity in academia.
Chris Bourne, the previous chair of the Weill-Cornell DEI Committee, introduced Dr. Taabazuing before his talk. Thanks Chris!
April 21 2022 - The lab interviewed a prospective graduate student for the incoming class of 2040.
April 18 2022 - The lab welcomes our newest rotation student, Tamanna!
Tamanna graduate with a BS in Chemistry and Statistics from Duke University. She’s excited to learn molecular biology from the lab.
March 25, 2022 - Rotation students Pat and Brie presented the lab’s first posters at the BMB Friday Research Discussion (FRD). Their western blots were the talk of the poster session!
Pat (left) and Brie (right) presenting their posters at FRD.
The Taabazuing lab from left to right: Dr. Taabazuing, Pat, Dr. Discher, Brie
March 19, 2022 - United Negro College Fund (UNCF) Fundraiser
Dr. Taabazuing attended the 10th Anniversary of the Mayor’s Masked Ball. This fundraising event helps raise money for scholarships to support traditionally underserved students. In 2021, they awarded scholarships in excess of $2.5 million. The Taabazuing lab is funded by the UNCF - Dr. Taabazuing is an Earnest E. Just Early Career Investigator.
February 15 2022 - The lab’s first western blot!
Rotations student Brie runs the first western in the lab. A picture is worth a thousand words!
February 8, 2022 - Just APPRECIATING the view from the lab!
January 27 2022 - Pat ran the first PCR and DNA gel and it worked!
February 1 2022 - We thawed cells to start tissue culture work.
January 19 2022
The first lab meeting!
Welcome Brie and Pat - the first rotation students! Brie (top left) received her BS in Chemistry from Farleigh Dickson College and Pat (top right) received his BA in Chemistry/Biochemistry from College of the Holy Cross. We are excited to have them join the team!
