Congratulations to our 2024 lab graduates!
Bowling party with our graduates at Lucky Strike Bowling! Left to right: Natalyia Stanisic (MCB BSc), Elizabeth (Liz) Harper (Biochem BSc), Genesis Cahigas (Biochem PhD).
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Liz at CBC's commencement ceremony. Congratulations Liz!
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Dr. Charest hooding Genesis on stage at the U. Arizona College of Science graduation ceremony. |
Genesis graduated!
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April 2024. Genesis defended his PhD dissertation on the role of the small GTPase Rap1 in regulating the mechanistic Target of Rapamycin Complex 2 (mTORC2). Congratulations Dr. Cahigas!
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Alyssa is graduating!
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October 2023. Alyssa successfully defended her dissertation and is graduating! She is now starting her scientific writing career and we wish her all the best on this new adventure!
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2023 KEYS intern poster session
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2023 summer KEYS intern Trinity Le presents her poster at the program's poster session in July. trinity worked with staff scientist AFM Tariq Islam on generating phosphorylation mutants for the Dictyostelium chemoattractant receptor cAR1. Posing here with her is graduate student Isaiah Toth, who also helped Trinity with her project this summer.
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Nitant and Ray's graduation!
May 2023. The group celebrated Nitant and Ray's graduation and wished them farewell with a party at Funtasticks! We raced in go carts, battled in the bumper boats and laser tag, and tested our skills on the ropes course!
Nitant and Ray at Funtasticks showing their new Graduate's handbook :-)
Nitant (left side, back) and Ray (front right) had fun on the ropes course!
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Almost the whole group made it! Left to right, back row: Tariq Islam, Nitant Soni, Raymundo Buelna, Isiah Toth, Natalia Stanisic, Genesis Cahigas. Middle: Elizabeth harper, Helena Woroniecka, Alyssa Werner, Mollie Wiegand, Douglas Swango. Front: Pascale Charest, Agata Orlinski.
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Graduation party for Avani, Isa, and Shon!
May 2022. Everyone demonstrated their artistic skills painting mugs for the graduates as well as a few more pieces. It was a lot of fun!
Left to right: Stephen Smith, Helena Woroniecka, Isa Mundo, Shon Alimukhamedov, Pascale Charest, Avani Kumar, Genesis Cahigas, Mollie Wiegand, and Agata Orlinski. Tariq took the picture.
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Everyone added a little something to Isa, Avani, and Shon's mugs!
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Avani painting her little bowl.
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Isa painting her dragon chalice.
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Shon adding his touch to Isa's mug.
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KEYS internships summer 2021
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The internships were remote/online again this summer, and Alyssa and Mollie did it again and mentored 4 interns!
In the picture left to right and top to bottom: Mollie Wiegand (graduate student, mentor) Pascale Charest (PI) Alyssa Werner (graduate student, mentor) Saathvika Vegasina (intern) Makaela Valencia (intern) Saathvik Chandupatla (intern) Prithvi Yuvaraj (intern) |
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Bowling/Graduation party for Ethan and Jamie
May 2021, Bowling/Graduation party for Ethan and Jamie.
Left to right: Helena Woroniecka, Genesis Cahigas, Ethan Weiss, Pascale Charest, Stephen Dilley, Agata Orlinski, Alyssa Werner, Stephen Smith, Mollie Wiegand, Tariq Islam, and Nitant Soni.
KEYS internships summer 2020
It was very different this year, with the remote internships due to the pandemic. However, the interns learned a lot on how to mine and analyze large sets of data, and it was overall a big success!
In the picture from left-right and top-bottom:
Mollie Wiegand (graduate student & KEYS intern mentor)
Pascale Charest (PI)
Douglas Swango (KEYS intern)
Nik Mathur (KEYS intern)
Natalia Bojorquez (KEYS intern)
Grace Shadows (KEYS intern)
Alyssa Werner (graduate student & KEYS intern mentor)
In the picture from left-right and top-bottom:
Mollie Wiegand (graduate student & KEYS intern mentor)
Pascale Charest (PI)
Douglas Swango (KEYS intern)
Nik Mathur (KEYS intern)
Natalia Bojorquez (KEYS intern)
Grace Shadows (KEYS intern)
Alyssa Werner (graduate student & KEYS intern mentor)
Shannon (PhD) and Isabella (BSc) graduate!
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May 2020, at Dr Charest's for a Graduation dinner party. Shannon and Isabella had fun posing with props :-) Shannon is now finishing the MD portion of his dual program while Isabella is preparing for Grad School. Good luck to you both on all your future endeavors, we look forward to seeing all that you will accomplish! Note: Isabella is wearing her wolf moon shirt ;-) (lab running gag)
Shannon (PhD) defended!
Shannon is preparing for a well-deserved toast!
Maggie (PhD) and Ramya (BSc) graduate!
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May 2018 Bowling graduation party!
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2017 Holiday Party
The Charest lab had their 2017 Holiday party in Reid park
Kiddy train ride!
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Duck feeding at the pond
(some are scared of the aggressive ducks!)
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Matthew and Pearce's graduation, May 2017
Members of the lab had lunch at Feast with Matthew and Pearce's families in town for their graduation.
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Farewell fun at Funtastics!
Matthew and Pearce's farewell party at Funtastics, May 2017.
We had such a great time, I think this will become a classic! Between the mini golf, the go carts, and bumper boats, the most fun was probably the bumper boats where we really had a blast ganging up on Matthew and Pearce :-)
They might disagree this was the most fun, though, but it's just water guys!! And all it took to completely dry off was one go cart race!
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2016 Holiday Party
Charest Lab Holiday Party, December 2016.
We had a fun white elephant gift exchange, with some gifts that were a lot more popular than others, as always! Also, some people didn't get the memo about the Holiday sweater theme... ;-)
2016 Annual International Dicty Meeting
The Charest group organized the 2016 Annual International Dicty Meeting, which took place at Westward Look Resort and Spa in Tucson, July 31-June 4.
Spring 2016 graduating students
Dustin Daniel has graduated on May 11, 2016 with a Master's degree in Applied Biosciences, as part of the Professional Masters Program. Congrats!
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Amanda Hanson (center) defended her Biochemistry Master's thesis on April 13, 2016.
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BBQ on Mt Lemmon, May 2015
From left: Tariq and daughters Mariasha and Tanisha, Maggie, Joe, Amanda and boyfriend Brandon, Pascale and sons Xavier and Rafael (hiding behind the tree with his blue hoodie ;-))
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It was a cool day on the mountain for a picnic!
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Lab photo shoot Spring 2015
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2015 lab members, left to right: Tariq Islam, Joe Cada, Pascale Charest, Pearce Haldeman, Shannon Collins, Matthew O'Mara, Ramya Ramesh, Amanda Hanson, Maggie Scavello.
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First lab photo
Charest Lab 2013. Front row: Joseph Cada, Valery Thompson, Alexandra Petlick. Back row: Nieves Montano, Pascale Charest, Branden Stepanski.