Recent News
Timothy Sherrier receives Hachnasarian Award and joins the Rutgers Biotechnology Training Program
The Hachnasarian Award is for excellence in his qualifying exam scores and first year course grades. To date, all three Microbial Biology PhD students in the Woychik lab have received this award 😎 !
[PhD Written Qualifying Exam] x 3 = Done!
Safreen, Tim, and Nikita passed with flying colors. One down, one more to go.
New Microbial Biology PhD student
Welcome Hannah Bovermann from Texas! You’ll love our summers and the change of seasons. As for winters…let’s see.😉
Unnati and Valdir’s paper is out
We identified two Mycobacterium tuberculosis tRNAfMet-inactivating toxins that can be exploited for antibiotic development
New Master’s in Biomedical Science Capstone Student
Welcome Valentina El Bourgi
Three new PhD students join the lab
Welcome Safreen Sain, Timothy Sherrier and Nikita Amin
New Bugs as Drugs grant from the NIH-National Cancer Institute
Excited to dip our toes into breast cancer research with this R21 grant with Co-Investigator Yuh-Hwa Wang to the University of Virginia School of Medicine
Farewell and Best Wishes to Julia and Unnati!
After defending her PhD in late July and fielding multiple job offers, Unnati (left) has accepted a Technical Leader position at Roche. Julia (right) is heading to Austin, Texas to finally join her new hubby and start the job hunt. We’ll miss you both—and pup Izzie at group meetings—but so proud and excited to see you Read More