News | Jimah Lab

[May 2026] Amari Tankard presents a terrific FPO! Congratulations Dr. Amari Tankard!

[April 2026] Congratulations Philip on being selected as a 2026 recipient of The Reiner G. Stoll Undergraduate Summer Fellowship in Chemical and Biological Engineering

[January 2026] Ismayn Ditter begins PhD rotation. Welcome Ismayn!

[December 2025] Abdur on winning the highly competitive AHA (American Heart Association) postdoctoral fellowship

[December 2025] Lab end of Fall semester and Ava’s rotation celebration!

[November 2025] Ava Moudi begins PhD rotation. Welcome Ava!

[October 2025] The lab attends and presents at the Membrane Fusion and Budding BPS Conference, Estes Park, CO

[October 2025] John co-organizes the MOL retreat and Amari gives a great presentation!

[July 2025] Congratulations Erik Zupa on being awarded the NJCCR postdoc fellowship (declined for the Charles H. Revson Fellowship).

[May 2025] Congratulations Erik Zupa on being awarded the Charles H. Revson Senior Fellowship in Biomedical Science

[May 2025] End of Spring Semester lab outing

[May 2025] Celebrating our graduating seniors Emily Lee and Jenny Nwokeji!

[May 2025] Congratulations Emily, undergraduate senior, on STEM Star Award from Council on Science and Technology

[May 2025] Congratulations Jenny Nwokeji on receiving an outstanding Thesis Award from MOL!

[February 2025] Pyne Prize awarded to MolBio major Jennifer Nwokeji '25 of the Jimah Lab! Congratulations! Nwokeji and Avi Attar are recipients of the 2025 Moses Taylor Pyne Honor Prize, the highest general distinction conferred on a Princeton undergraduate. (https://www.princeton.edu/news/2025/02/18/pyne-prize-awarded-princeton-class-2025-members-avi-attar-and-jennifer-nwokeji)

[December 2024] John Jimah named as finalist for the 2025 HHMI Freeman Hrabowski Scholars Competition (one of 63).

[August 2024] Germaine Smart-Marshall begins PhD rotation. Welcome Germaine.

[August 2024] Some pictures from this summer: the Mol Bio picnic and our lab outing to Grounds for Sculpture. It was wonderful having Jenny and Emily (Mol Bio SURP program) and Maria and Philip (Princeton's OURSIP) with us!

[June 2024] Erik attends Biology of Parasitism (BoP) course at Woods Hole Marine Biology Lab.

[May 2024] Huge congratulations to Erik Zupa on receiving the inaugural ‘Exemplar Mentor’ award from Princeton University's McGraw Center for Teaching and Learning! Erik was nominated by Maria Karakousis, a second-year undergraduate student!

[April 2024] A wonderful feature on Jenny Nwokeji! and motivations for her research on malaria.( https://t.co/6VD0Jikcvp)

[February 2024] Spotlight on the amazing microscopes at Princeton University, including those enabling state-of-the-art Cryo-EM/ET (https://t.co/4fATkN8lu4)

[February 2024] Lab celebrations: Seraya completed her exams to become a PhD candidate, Halloween pumpkins bash , and cheers to Tommy, Sam, and Rodrigo for completing their rotations!

[November 2023] Rodrigo Berber-Pulido and Samantha Brokaw begin rotation. Welcome Rodrigo and Sam!

[September 2023] Thomas Cafiero begins PhD rotation. Welcome Tommy.

[September 2023] Congratulations Erik Zupa on being named Princeton Presidential postdoc scholar (https://t.co/1fdXsGlQ0K)

[July 2023] Had a blast at the annual MOL picnic! Excited to welcome MacKenzie Cassity, our new research specialist, along with our Summer undergraduate researchers Maria Karakousis '26, Emily Lee '25, and Hayden Messina '25. Joining forces for a fantastic summer of research!

[June 2023] Welcome MacKenzie (Kenzie) Cassity to the lab!

[May 2023] Congratulations to Amanda Banh & Gayatri Ganesan on receiving prizes for their undergraduate thesis research and for graduating with highest honors in Molecular Biology and Chemistry, respectively! We wish you the best as you embark on your next career stages in medicine/science.

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[May 2023] Congratulations to Seraya Jones Nelson for receiving leadership awards at the '23 Inclusive Academy Symposium! Kudos to both Seraya and Amari Tankard for helping organize the IA symposium (https://iasymposium.princeton.edu).

[May 2023] Erik and Nathan are using the Leica Coral Cryo confocal microscope for in situ cryo-ET and cryo-CLEM!

pt2 Erik and Nathan are using the Leica Coral Cryo confocal microscope for in situ cryo-ET and cryo-CLEM!

[February 2023] Congratulations, John, on the Sloan Research Fellowship

[February 2023] Dr. Jenny Hinshaw, John's postdoc advisor, visited us!

[February 2023] Sophie Skanchy begins her PhD rotation. Welcome Sophie!

[December 2022] Alana Young moves on to Rutgers University to pursue a degree in Master of Business and Science. Congratulations, Alana!

[December 2022] Lab holiday celebration followed by axe throwing at Stumpy's.

[December 2022] Mol Bio Department Holiday Party!

[December 2022] Alana Young and Nathan Fowler receive Spot Awards. Congratulations!

[November 2022] The cryo-confocal microscope (Coral Cryo with white light laser, from Leica) is up and running!

[November 2022] Erik Zupa PhD, joins our lab for his postdoc research. Welcome Erik!

[November 2022] Gayatri Ganesan joins our group for her undergraduate independent thesis.

[November 2022] Amari Tankard, PhD student, joins our lab! Amari is co-advised with Prof. Danelle Devenport.

[September 2022] We participate in the Mol Bio retreat. John gives a research talk; Nathan presents a poster; Amari is awarded the DEI Advocacy Award!

[September 2022] Lab ice cream outing to Bent spoon

[September 2022] Mol Bio Summer picnic.

[September 2022] Jenny Nwokeji continues her research in our lab during semesters. Jenny is also awarded the Shapiro Prize for Academic Excellence. Congrats Jenny!

[August 2022] Plasmodium falciparum, malaria parasite, culture is initiated by Alana Young!

Plasmodium falciparum parasites - first for our lab

[June 2022] Jenny Nwokeji, 1st year undergraduate student, joins our lab for the OURSIP program over the summer. Welcome Jenny!

[June 2022] John gives a talk at the cell-cell fusion GRC and attends the 3DEM GRC.

[April 2022] Seraya Jones joins our lab as our first PhD student!

[April 2022] Alana Young joins our lab. Welcome Alana!

[February 2022] Nathan Fowler joins our lab as a research specialist. Welcome Nathan!

[February 2022] Seraya Jones begins her PhD rotation. Welcome Seraya!

[January 2022] Amanda Banh begins undergraduate independent research (thesis) in the lab. Welcome Amanda!

[January 2022] State of the lab: our equipment and tools are arriving.

[January 2022] R00 grant (from NIGMS, NIH MOSAIC K99/R00 program) activated.

[January 2022] The lab opens.

[September 2021] We are recruiting scientists to investigate membrane remodeling in malaria parasites and human cells.

[September 2021] Jimah Lab website goes live. Learn about our research.

[September 2021] Welcome! Jimah lab opens January 2022.