News + Good Things

Pat, Thad, Natalie

Happy Birthday Pat

March 25th, 2014: Happy Birthday Pat!

Natalie with acceptance letter on computer monitor

Natalie Accepted to Two Vet Schools

March 7th, 2014: Yes! We are hella stoked that Natalie is accepted to vet school at Oklahoma State!!! (Update: And, Texas A&M!)

Mike at A&M Consol

Matt’s High School Class

Feb. 11th, 2014: Matt’s class at A&M Consolidated High School was featured by the local news! Great job Matt, Heather, Jenna and the whole gang!

Lab Group Party

Holiday Lab Party

January 4th, 2014: From the Holiday Lab Party! I thought about posting the picture of my wife, students, and an epigeneticist playing Wii “Just Dance” much later in the night….

Mike with Pat and Family

Starting a New Year

January 1st, 2014: Starting the New Year with Pat’s son and family visiting from Denver! Great food and fun!

Sara Defends Dissertation

Sara Defends Dissertation

November 22th, 2013: Sara defended her dissertation! She did a terrific job and we are very proud of her! Pictured are the committee Drs. Gonzalo Rivera, Ian Tizard, Luc Berghman and Mike Criscitiello, with Sara and proud husband, Emad, in the center.

Natalie holds plate of food

Natalie Crafts Food Replicas of Antibody Structures

September 24th, 2013: We love antibodies, but are not above eating them! Natalie created these delicious shortbread and fruit structures for lab meeting. That is right…strawberries are heavy chain constant domains, grapes inter-chain disulfide bonds, and blueberries antigen binding the paratope!

Thad

Thad Wins CVM Merit Fellowship

June 20th, 2013: Thad Deiss won a CVM Merit Fellowship to pursue his Ph.D. in the lab! Thanks to Thad for boosting his GRE even higher, and the College of Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Sciences, Department of Veterinary Pathobiology, and the Office of Graduate Studies for support of the fellowship!

Cattle in a field with a fence in foreground

Cattle Antibodies Work

June 11th, 2013: Our collaboration with Dr. Vaughn Smider’s group (from The Applied Biomedical Science Institute) on cattle antibodies was covered by KAGS.

Natalie and Chowdahary

Natalie Wins Non-Thesis MS Award

April 5th, 2013: Natalie won the the CVM Non-thesis Option MS award for 2013! Awesome job!