News

December 17, 2021
Elizabeth (Liz) Vellali (pictured here with a beaker wine glass) has served as a critical member of faculty support for the Department of Molecular Biophysics and...
September 18, 2021
We headed out to Giuffrida Park for a very nice enjoyable fall hike! Pictured left to right: Tony, Rob, Alyssa, Ellen, Jane, Wanqing, Kuanlin, Daisy.   Thank you Cody...
May 22, 2021
Ellen Corcoran was just recently awarded the Ruth L. Kirschstein Predoctoral Individual National Research Service Award (F31) from the National Institute of Mental Health!...
March 26, 2021
Congratulations to Daisy Duan who was recently awarded the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship! Daisy’s thesis project focuses on elucidating the mechanism by which the...
January 25, 2021
The Koleske Lab kicked off the year 2021 with a special new lab member: Dr. Rob Niescier! Rob Niescier earned his PhD from the Ulsan National Institute of Science and...
January 13, 2021
Both Daisy Duan and Melissa Carrizales have successfully passed their MB&B oral qualifying exams on August 19th, 2020 and November 17th, 2020, respectively. Now en route...
April 16, 2020
Melissa Carrizales joins our lab from the doctoral program in Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry. She earned her B.S. degree at Texas State University in biochemistry....