Toledo visit

It does not really relate to the Ronning lab at UNMC, but I made my first trip to Toledo since moving to UNMC in January 2020. It was great to see so many of my friends and former colleagues in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry. It was a phenomenal visit.

Rasangi Graduation day

Rasangi participated both her Ph.D. hooding at the UNMC convocation and walked during her graduation commencement. Congratulations Rasangi. Rasangi ultimately decided to take a post-doctoral research position at the Duke University Human Vaccine Institute working with Priyamvada Acharya. Best of luck in the future.

Poster day for Rachel and Julia

Julia and Rachel are High School Alliance participants who shadowed researchers in the Ronning lab this fall. The culmination of that time was the Poster session for the entire HSA cohort. What a great group of students.

Rasangi’s defense celebration

To commemorate Rasangi’s many contributions to the Ronning lab and her successful defense, the Ronning lab met for dinner at La Bouvette in Omaha’s Old Market for a spectacular evening of French food and drinks. Rasangi’s sister joined us as well. This also marks the first Ronning lab outing with Malia as part of the group. Welcome Malia.

Congratulation Rasangi!!!

Rasangi successfully defended her Ph.D. dissertation today. Congratulations and thank you for all your hard work and intelligent thinking.

UNEMED innovation award night

My great friend Jared Anderson from Iowa State University visited UNMC to give a seminar, so I decided to bring him to the UNEMED innovation award banquet to experience how we celebrate and acknowledge research innovation in Omaha. It was a great night. His seminar the next day was great as well. Thanks for visiting, Jared.

Decided to have a start of fall lab lunch

We walked over to Blackstone to get a Ronning lab lunch before Saabea and Soma left the lab. We also welcomed Zalak and Rajashree, new rotation students, to the Ronning lab.

Ronning Lab Cookout

The Ronning lab celebrated the end of the summer with the annual cookout. In attendance where the Ronning lab residents and those Ronning lab participants who will be missed when the summer ends: rotation student Soma, Saabea, and Brittany. Evelyn will be ending her internship with the Ronning lab. We wish you all luck with your future research.

Evelyn presents her SURP internship results.

Evelyn Stuck from U of MN-Crookston spent the summer in the Ronning lab for her SURP-supported internship. We enjoyed having Evelyn in the lab and will miss her when she leaves to finish her time in Crookston. Great job Ev

Research Day commemorates the accomplishments of Jonathan Vennerstrom

Research day celebrated my colleague Jonathan Vennerstrom and his numerous accomplishments. Among others, Courtney Aldrich (U of MN) and Vennerstrom lab alum Dan Flaherty (Purdue U) joined us for the celebration on the UNMC campus.