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Some Good News!
The Hartley lab says goodbye to Hiroko as Hiroko embarks on a new journey starting graduate school in the neuroscience program at the University of Buffalo
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Dr. Hartley attends the 2023 Bioorganic Chemistry Gordon Research Conference
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Jenna, Matt, and Nishama receive awards at the 2023 Department of Chemistry Awards ceremony!
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Jenna defends her Master’s thesis in chemistry!
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Dr. Hartley and Matt attend the 14th annual International Workshop on Resistance to Thyroid Hormone and Thyroid Hormone Action in Monterey, CA in April 2023
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Nishama Mohotti presents at Gordon Research Conference (GRC) & Gordon Research Seminar (GRS) for Glial Biology: Functional Interactions Among Glia and Neurons
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Liz presents at the undergraduate research symposium
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The lab celebrates Ziyu passing his orals!! Congrats Ziyu!
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Matthew earns award for presentation at the Chemical Biology Symposium. Seen here with auspicious speaker Nozomi Ando and PhD student organizer Esther Holt.
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Our very own Matthew Zupan passes Orals!!
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Meredith Hartley presents for the American Thyroid Association in Montreal
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Tracy Appelhanz collaborates with the Hartley Lab through the NSF RET IDEA-BioE program!
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Ilia Parish receives the Bricker Summer ChemScholar Award!
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Liz Arends wins two Undergraduate Research Awards!
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Welcome to our new REU student Michel Evertsen!
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Ziyu presents at the genomic symposium at KU
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Congratulations to those recognized by the KU Department of Chemistry for excellence 2022
Jenna became a Higuchi Summer Scholar and also earned The Adrienne Hiscox Scholarship
Rashmi earned the Kennith and Gertrude Marsi Scholarship
Rachel earned the Chemistry Department Scholarship Award
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Nishama passes her oral examinations with flying colors 2022
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Great work and good luck to graduating seniors Hiroko and Rachel! 2022
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Congratulations to Dr. Hartley for her beautiful baby boy! 2021
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We are excited to host Nicholas Campbell, our REU Summer Scholar, to the Hartley Lab 2021
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Congratulations two-fold to Nishama on receiving the Charles & Beatrice Kulier Scholarship Award, but also being a Marsi Summer Scholar! 2021
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We congratulate postdoc Saqib Faisal on a new job at Deciphera! 2021
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The Hartley Lab welcomes UGRA Hiroko and postdoc Saqib 2021
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The Hartley Lab welcomes graduate student Jenna Williams 2020
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Hartley Lab’s own Rashmi Binjawadagi gets accepted as graduate student! 2020
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Lab Team heads to South Park to safely enjoy the weather 2020
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Lab member Matt Zupan selected as trainee on NIH Chemistry and Biology Training Grant 2020
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Dr. Hartley awarded research grant from the American Thyroid Association 2020
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Hartley lab opens; lab members get the ball rolling! 2020
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Sobetirome, the drug Dr. Hartley researched in her postdoctoral work, moves into clinical trials June 2020
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Dr. Hartley‘s publication selected as postdoctoral paper of the year 2019
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