October 2022
Wenping and Hazel's work was accepted to ACS Sensors! They
developed the first oxygen-independent fluorescent protein based
zinc sensor using a flavin binding fluorescent protein. Congrats!
June 2022
Welcome to our summer high school visiting students, Jasmine Chou
and Welch Summer Scholar Bryce Chun!
April 2022
Melissa won the John C. Butler Excellence in Teaching Award!
March 2022
Haowen's work was accepted to Biochemistry! He showed how the
biliverdin-binding near-infrared fluorescent proteins miRFP670 and
miRFP709 are quenched by transition metals, especially copper, and
serve as platforms for new long-wavelength metal ion sensors.
Congrats!
December 2021
Uyen, Muxin, John, Brittany, Juventino, and Marium's work was
accepted to Microbiology Spectrum! They quantified cellular metal
contents and showed how zinc, manganese, and iron differentially
affect growth kinetics of two distinct Lactobacillus species in
complex and minimal media. Congratulations!
October 2021
Welcome to our new undergraduate student, Molly Rhodes
October 2021
Welcome to our new graduate student, Ogonna David
February 2021
Melissa contributed a lecture on metals in the gut microbiota to
the Society of Biological Inorganic Chemistry (SBIC) bioinorganic
educational resources initiative. Check it out here
December 2020
Welcome to our new graduate student, Hazel Nguyen
August 2020
We won our first federal research award from the NIH! Great work
by all group members on this R35 MIRA proposal!
A warm welcome to our two newest undergraduate students, Nasir
Abbasi and Jazzmin Jara
May 2020
Congratulations to Joanna Elhaj for winning the Provost's
Undergraduate Research Scholarship for fall 2020!
May 2020
Welcome to our newest undergraduate student, Joanna Elhaj, who
has been awarded the Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship
for 2020. Congratulations!
April 2020
Melissa won the UH High Priority Area Research Seed Grants Award
and the UH Grants to Enhance and Advance Research!
December 2019
Congratulations to graduate student Wenping and undergraduate
Khoa on the acceptance of our group's first research article in
ChemBioChem!
October 2019
Welcome to Makena Janis, our newest graduate student group
member
April-May 2019
Welcome to our two new undergraduate students, John King and
Leon Le
Congratulations to John King on winning the 2019 Summer
Undergraduate Research Fellowship!
September 2018
Welcome to our new graduate student, Muxin Qiao
June 2018
Welcome to our summer Welch Scholar, Amy Vo
May 2018
Welcome to undergraduates, Khoa Le and Marium Haq
Congratulations to Khoa Le on being awarded the 2018 Summer
Undergraduate Research Fellowship!
April 2018
Melissa won the Welch Research Grants Award!
January 2018
The Zastrow lab continues to grow! Welcome to our postdoc, Uyen
Huynh, and our undergraduate PURS student, Brittany Trinh
December 2017
Welcome to our new undergraduates, Juventino Valdez, Carlos
Iniguez, and Jon Pickett
October 2017
Welcome to our first two members, graduate students Wenping Zou
and Haowen Zhao
August 2017
The Zastrow lab officially opens its doors!
