Lab News

Spring Quarter 2024

04/05/24 - Jack is awarded the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) - congratulations to you and all Fellow candidates!

04/01/24 - Undergraduates Julian Guevara (‘25) and Nina Lee (‘25) join the lab - welcome!

Winter Quarter 2024

03/01/24 - Natalie is awarded the NIH F31 Predoctoral Fellowship from NIAID — we are so proud of you!

02/01/24 - First year chemistry graduate student Chad Moorman joins the lab — welcome!

Fall Quarter 2023

12/20/23 - Undergraduates Jessica and Priscilla are named UROP Fellows for the 2023-2024 academic year — congratulations!

12/11/23 - The lab celebrates the holidays with the Albrecht Lab!

12/06/23 - Matt is awarded the Abeloff V Scholar award - congratulations!

11/27/23 - The ELSDs are installed on the CombiFlash and HPLC.

10/31/23 -The lab hosts an open house to show off the new space (with a pumpkin painting contest)!

09/29/23 - Jack, Omar, and Brad present at the SCBC poster session.

09/25/23 - Priscilla presents her research at the Minority Science Program Summer Symposium.

Summer Quarter 2023

09/08/23 - The lab bids Minh farewell - good luck with your junior year and internship!

09/05/23 - Matt is awarded the V Scholar Award from the V Foundation - congratulations!

08/23/23 - The lab’s PCR laminar flow hood is installed.

08/05/23 - The lab bids Astrid farewell - good luck with your senior year!

08/03/23 - Astrid wins funding to attend ABRCMS for her NSURP presentation - fantastic job!

08/01/23 - The lab’s Bio-Rad NGC FPLC is installed.

07/31/23 - The lab’s dual Coy anaerobic chambers are installed.

07/20/23 - Natalie passes her advancement exam and becomes our first Ph.D. candidate - CONGRATULATIONS!

07/17/23 - The lab’s CombiFlash NextGen 300+ and ACCQPrep HP150 are installed.

07/08/23 - The lab travels to the Rose Bowl to watch Jessica’s drum corps group perform - check out the pictures.

07/01/23 - Matt joins the Departments of PharmSci and Mol Biol & Biochem. Rotation students welcome!

06/16/23 - Matt’s grad school work on functional glycoproteomics is posted on bioRxiv.

06/12/23 - Undergraduate Astrid Ardon Lopez joins the lab as a summer NSURP fellow - welcome!

Spring Quarter 2023

06/07/23 - The lab attends our first UCI Chemistry Department Lee dinner - check out the pictures.

06/02/23 - Graduate student Omar Ocegueda (Pharm Sci) joins the lab - welcome!

05/24/23 - Jessica becomes a UCI Distinguished Research and UROP Fellow - congratulations!

05/24/23 - Minh becomes a UCI UROP Fellow - congratulations!

05/22/23 - Priscilla becomes a UCI MARC Scholar - congratulations!

05/19/23 - The lab’s WOLF benchtop cell sorter is installed in the anaerobic chamber.

05/12/23 - Matt’s postdoc work on NOD2 agonists for immunotherapy is published at ACS Chem Biol.

05/11/23 - Matt gives a seminar to the UCI Institute for Immunology.

05/09/23 - Graduate student Bradley Richter (Chemistry) joins the lab - welcome!

05/05/23 - Natalie gives the lab’s first seminar at Synthetic and Chemical Biology Club - well done!

05/03/23 - The lab’s benchtops are installed - looking even better!

04/12/23 - Matt gives a seminar to the Pharm Sci department.

04/10/23 - The lab’s benches are installed - looking good!

04/07/23 - Matt gives a seminar at the San Diego Glycobiology Symposium.

Winter Quarter 2023

03/15/23 - Graduate student Sam Pierce (Pharm Sci) joins the lab - welcome!

03/06/23 - The lab joins the Chao Family Comprehensive Cancer Center at UCI.

02/06/23 - The lab joins the Cancer Research Institute at UCI.

02/03/23 - Matt gives a seminar to the MBB department.

02/03/23 - The lab joins the UC Glycobiology Research and Training Center.

01/27/23 - Matt’s postdoc work on NOD2 agonists for immunotherapy is posted on bioRxiv.

01/25/23 - Graduate student Jack Leonard (Chemistry) joins the lab - welcome!

01/17/23 - The lab joins the Institute for Immunology at UCI.

Fall Quarter 2022

12/01/22 - Matt is awarded the K22 Transition Career Development Award from the NCI.

11/02/22 - The lab is awarded an American Cancer Society Institutional Research Grant through the UCI Cancer Research Institute.

10/01/22 - Undergraduates Priscilla Jones, Minh Le, and Jessica Wu join the lab - welcome!

Summer Quarter 2022

09/15/22 - Graduate student Natalie Falco (Pharm Sci) joins the lab - welcome!

08/09/22 - Our IACUC protocol for microbiota and cancer studies is approved.

08/02/22 - Our IBC protocol for microbial engineering is approved.

07/08/22 - Reviews are published in Neoplasia and Cell.

07/01/22 - Matt officially joins UC Irvine as an Assistant Professor!