Lab News
Aug 2026: Gracie Giacoletto has been selected as an NIH Chemistry-Biology Interface Training Grant Fellow—congratulations, Gracie!
July 22, 2026: Jennifer Sescil and her coauthors have published a new research paper, “Biotin Ligase-Based Reporter for Detecting Protease Activity,” in ACS Chemical Biology. Congratulations, Dr. Sescil and team!
July 13, 2026: Jennifer Sescil has successfully completed her PhD thesis defense. Congratulations, Dr. Sescil—hooray!
June, 2026: We welcome Jake Nuttall, our summer undergraduate researcher through the Perrigo Program, to the lab!
June 10, 2026: Angie Soto Acevedo and Wenjing have been awarded the Rackham Partnerships for Access, Community, and Excellence (PACE) Fellowship for Graduate Student–Faculty Pairs. Congratulations to Angie and Wenjing!
June, 2026: Dr. Wenzhe Li has published a new review article, “Next-Generation Interleukin-Enhanced Immunotherapies: From Molecular Engineering to Armored T-Cell Architectures,” in Current Opinion in Chemical Biology. Congratulations, Dr. Li!
June 8, 2026: Dr. Aubrey Putansu and their coauthors have published a new research paper, “SENSIT, a Modular Single-Chain Fluorescent Integrator Platform for GPCR Ligands,” in ACS Chemical Biology. Congratulations, Dr. Putansu and team!
May 15, 2026: Aubrey Putansu has successfully completed their PhD thesis defense. Congratulations, Dr. Putansu—hooray!
May, 2026: Mona Borhan has been awarded the Rosen Fellowship from LSI and the Magnificent Michigan Fellowship through MNI and the University of Michigan Neuroscience Innovators to support her summer undergraduate research. Congratulations, Mona!
June, 2026: Ola Bartolik has accepted a summer internship at Biohub. Congratulations, Ola!
May, 2026: Annie Xu has been awarded a Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship through the Department of Chemistry to support her summer research. Congratulations, Annie!
April 28, 2026: Lexie Moran has successfully completed her Gateway Exam and advanced to PhD candidacy. Congratulations, Lexie!
April, 2026: Welcome Jiayu and Gracie, to the Wang lab - It is official now!
April 13, 2026: Ola Bartolik has published a new research paper, “A Single-Chain Light-Activatable Transcriptional Reporter for Fluorescently Tagging Mammalian Cells In Vitro,” in ChemBioChem. Congratulations, Ola!
March 17, 2026: Luis Vazquez Rivera has successfully completed his PhD thesis defense. Congratulations, Dr. Vazquez-Riveral—hooray!
Feb 24, 2026: Luis Vazquez-Rivera and coauthors have published a new research paper, “A Novel Directed Evolution Platform for Engineering Chemically Gated Protein Switches,” in Chemical Communications. Congratulations, Luis and team!
Jan 9, 2026: Gwendolyn Shingles and coauthors have published a new research paper, “A Chemogenetic Approach for Temporal and Cell-Specific Activation of Endogenous GPCRs In Vivo,” in PNAS. Congratulations, Gwendolyn and team!
Jan 9, 2026: Dr. Benya Lakkanasirorat and coauthors have published a new research paper, “Library-on-Library Intercellular Labeling for Selection of Biotin Ligase and Acceptor Peptides,” in ChemBioChem. Congratulations, Dr. Lakkanasirorat and team!
September 2025: We welcome Annie Xu and Mona Borhan, our new undergraduate researchers, to the Wang Lab.
Sept, 2025: We welcome Jiayu Lin and Gracie Giacoletto to the Wang lab for a research rotation!
Aug, 2025: Angie Soto Acevedo has accepted a summer internship at Eli Lilly. Congratulations, Angie!
Aug 4, 2025: Benya Lakkanasirorat has successfully completed her PhD thesis defense. Congratulations, Dr. Lakkanasirorat—hooray!
July, 2025: Ryan Singer has received an NIH F31 Fellowship Award. Congratulations, Ryan!
July, 2025: We welcome Sarah El-Mohri to the Wang lab for a summer research rotation!
June, 2025: Luis Vazquez-Rivera has accepted a summer internship at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. Congratulations, Luis!
June 10, 2025: Steven Havens and coauthors have published a new research paper, “SPLICEIT Fluorescent Sensor for Integrating Dopamine Release with Cellular Resolution,” in Angewandte Chemie International Edition. Congratulations, Steven and team!
June 2025: Wenjing has received the University of Michigan MBioFAR Award. We are grateful to the University of Michigan for its generous support of our research. Congratulations, Wenjing!
June 2025: We welcome Zoey Murphy, a high school student researcher, to the Wang Lab for summer research through the LSI Aspirnaut Program.
May 2025: We welcome Sophia Lehnert to the Wang Lab for summer undergraduate research.
April, 2025: Welcome Lexie, to the Wang lab - It is official now!
April, 2025: Guanwei Zhou and coauthors have published a new research paper, “An Improved FLARE System for Recording and Manipulating Neuronal Activity,” in Cell Reports Methods. Congratulations, Guanwei and team!
March 20, 2025: Isabel Solowiej has successfully completed her Gateway Exam and advanced to PhD candidacy. Congratulations, Isabel!
March 11, 2025: Steven Havens has successfully completed her PhD thesis defense. Congratulations, Dr. Havens—hooray!
March 06, 2025: Hannah Rivett has successfully completed her Gateway Exam and advanced to PhD candidacy. Congratulations, Hannah!
Feb 25, 2025: Jennifer Sescil and Steven Havens have published a new review article, “Principles and Design of Molecular Tools for Sensing and Perturbing Cell Surface Receptor Activity,” in Chemical Reviews. Congratulations, Jennifer and Steven!
Feb 18, 2025: Jennifer Sescil and coauthors have published a new research paper, “Functionalization of a Versatile Fluorescent Sensor for Detecting Protease Activity and Temporally Gated Opioid Sensing,” in RSC Chemical Biology. Congratulations, Jennifer and team!
Feb, 2025: Guanwei Zhou has published a new review article, “Protein Engineering for Spatiotemporally Resolved Cellular Monitoring,” in Annual Review of Analytical Chemistry. Congratulations, Guanwei!
Jan, 2025: Luis Vazquez Rivera has received an NIH F31 Fellowship Award. Congratulations, Luis!
Jan, 2025: We welcome Lexie Moran, Rashi Salampuriya and Mammer Almalahi to the Wang lab for a research rotation!
Sept, 2024: We welcome Megan Gibas and Soulmalya Pramaik to the Wang lab for a research rotation!
Sept, 2024: We welcome our new postdoc, Dr. Hailing Chen, to the Wang lab!
Aug, 2024: Hannah Rivett has been selected as an NIH Chemistry–Biology Interface Training Grant Fellow. Congratulations, Hannah!
Aug, 2024: We welcome our new postdoc, Dr. Wenzhe Li, to the Wang lab!
Aug, 2024: Farewell to our wonderful postdoc, Dr. Jian Weng! Wishing you all the best as you begin an exciting new chapter in your medical and research career!
June 2024: We welcome Veona Cutinho to the Wang Lab for summer undergraduate research through the U-M LSI Perrigo Program.
April, 2024: Welcome, Hannah and Isabel, to the Wang lab - It is official now!
April, 2024: Kayla Kroning and coauthors have published a new research paper, “Single-Chain Fluorescent Integrators for Mapping G-Protein-Coupled Receptor Agonists,” in PNAS. Congratulations, Kayla and team!