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2023

June

• Welcome Lowrey to the lab!
• Welcome Taegeun to the lab!

May

• Maia, Jordan and Sara successfully presented their senior theses – congrats!
• Nik leaves the lab in preparation for medical school – thank you for your work!

April

• We won funding from the Dartmouth Innovations Accelerator for Cancer to continue our work on high-throughput screening technologies.

January

• Jiwon gave a talk at PepTalk in San Diego with Matt and Jim in attendance.

2022

September

• Welcome Aisha to the lab!
• Welcome to both Charite and Asha who join the lab as as undergrad research assistants!

August

• Nik joins the lab as our laboratory technician, welcome!

June

• Welcome, Larry, our research assistant focused on computational projects to the lab.
• Lee Lab was granted the Neukom Award to develop an immunogen design algorithm to focus immune responses to particular epitopes. Read more here .
• Congratulations to Steven for passing his qualifying exam!
• Work by our lab was awarded in the Dartmouth Innovations Accelerator for Cancer (DIAC) : we’re excited to make a difference in cancer treatment with our lab’s technology!

May

• We presented posters at the Innovation and Technology Festival.
• The Lee Lab moves into the new Engineering and Computer Science Center.
• Jim joins us for his PhD, welcome!
• Seungmin completed his work in the lab and moved to the University of Pittsburgh! Congratulation Seungmin, we’ll miss you!
• Matt, Steven, and Nick presented posters at the BCE Seminar.

April

• Nick won 3rd place in the Dartmouth 3-Minute Thesis competition on his research into influenza imprinting. Read a recap of the 3-minute Thesis competition here .

February

• Matt receives the Innovation Fellowship from Thayer!
• Meredith received her Masters and begins her job at IDEXX. Congratulations!
• We published a review article with Frontiers in Immunology on recent advances in proteomic approaches to the humoral immune response.

2021

December

• Nick wins second place in the poster competition at the Biomedical and Biotech Symposium .
• We won the Stu Trembly award from the Dartmouth Cancer Accelerator.

September

• Congratulations to Meredith for passing her qualifying exam!

August

• Matt starts at the lab as a new PhD student. Welcome!

July

• The lab published “Influenza vaccination in the elderly boosts antibodies against conserved viral proteins and egg-produced glycans ,” in The Journal of Clinical Investigation. This attempts to explain a known “diminished adaptive immune response.”

May

• Congratulations to Nick for passing his qualifying exam!
• Congrats Nick for receiving the Charles F. and Ruth D. Goodrich Prize.
• Maia wins Best Animation Award at the MAD research Video Competition for her animation.

April

• We participated in the Dartmouth Cancer Accelerator and received the Quinn Scholar Award for our antibody engineering project! Read more about it from Dartmouth Engineering here and here , Dartmouth College , Dartmouth Health , and the local news .

January

• Sara joins the lab as a undergraduate research assistant. Welcome!
• Welcome, Brian, our newest undergraduate research assistant, to the lab.

2020

December

• Steven joins the lab for his PhD. Welcome!
• We published a review article with Current Opinions in Systems Biology focused on understanding recent advances in sequencing B-cell receptors.

April

• Congratulations to Maia for receiving the Barbara E. Crute Memorial Fellowship.
• Esther joins the lab as an undergraduate research assistant. Welcome!
• Rachel, an undergraduate, joins us for the spring.
• Our lab was featured in the NH Business Review in an article highlighting the College’s groundbreaking research in the fight against the novel coronavirus. Read about how Dartmouth research is contributing on the diagnostic and therapeutic front in the article here , here , and here .

January

• Siddhant joins us for the spinrg as an undergraduate research assistant.
• Welcome Zhanel, an undergraduate research assistant, to the lab.
• Jordan starts with the lab as an undergraduate research assistant.
• Maia begins her time in the lab as an undergraduate research assistant.

2019

December

• We had lots of fun in Boston with Dr. Stephen Harrison’s lab. Read more here .

August

• Lee Lab goes to the White Mountains for out annual scientific retreat.

July

• Welcome, Nicholas, a new PhD student, to the lab.
• Meredith begins her masters in the lab. Welcome!
• Alex joins us as a research assistant for the summer.
• Kevin joins us for the summer as a research assistant.
• Welcome to Seungmin, who will be doing his Post-Doc in the lab.
• The Lee Lab opens for research at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center as part of the Thayer School of Engineering! Read more here .