Farinas Laboratory
Congratulation to Nirupama for earning her PhD July 27 2010! Summer 2010 (left-right) Stephanie Camp, Stephanie Chicas, Silu Sheng, Edgardo Farinas, Han Jia, Nirupama Gupta, Alexander Gurvits, and Da Jeong Shim.
Han Jia joins the lab in Summer 2010.
Congratulations! Silu Sheng and Alex Gurvits graduated on 05/17/2010 with an MS and BS, respectively. Silu will continue in the lab towards a PhD. Alex plans to attend dental school.
Nirupama won a 1st place poster award at the 22nd annual Rutgers-UMDNJ Minisymposium in Molecular Biophysics, Rutgers, Piscataway, NJ, 05/01/2010. Directed Evolution of CotA Laccase for Increased Substrate Specificity using Bacillus subtilis spores, Nirupama Gupta and Edgardo T. Farinas.
Nirupama Gupta and Da Jeong Shim attend the The American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Annual Meeting, Anaheim, CA. 4/ 24-26/ 2010
Graduating senior Tin Vo received the second-place silver undergraduate medal for his project, “Altering Substrate Specificity of a-Ketoglutarate Dehydrogenase for Chemical Synthesis,” from the NJIT Dana Knox Student Research Showcase competition on April 14, 2010. This work was done in collaboration with Prof. Frank Jordan at Rutgers-Newark. Tin Vo (right) and NJIT Provost Don Sebastian (left)
Shim is about to enjoy a huge slice of birthday cake (01/28). She is celebrating by making figures and inducing E1o mutants. She shares her birthday with Prof. Frank Jordan, our collaborator.
Silu Sheng and Sangita Paudel join the lab in Winter 2010
Before After
Chemistry majors JoAnna DiVincenzo and Charles Poyssick attended the 2009 graduation and discovered that they both work at Merck.
Nirupama Gupta's paper, "Narrowing Laccase Substrate Specificity Using Active Site Saturation Mutagenesis" was featured in the March 2009 issue of Combinatorial Chemistry & High-Throughput Screening.
Gerardo Tolentino was awarded Honorable Mention for his thermostability studies on laccase at the McNair Symposium (Spring 2009).
Chand Shah presented her poster at 236th ACS national meeting, Philadelphia, PA August 18th. She also was awarded 1st Place/Blue Ribbon at ACS SEED presentation at Seton Hall September 22nd.
Summer 2008 (left-right) Da Jeong Shim, Edgardo Farinas, Chand Shah, JoAnna DiVincenzo, Nirupama Gupta
Shim and Nirupama are looking busy for the boss, but they are really discussing what movie to see over the weekend.
Nirupama at LRIG Student Poster contest (05/17/2007). She won 1st place!