News & Photos
2026
2026.08.26 We were delighted to welcome Greg McKenna, Director of TARDISS, to our lab!
2026.03.23. Congratulations to Gözde for being awarded the Journal of Nanobiotechnology (JNB) Rising Star Award!
2025
2025 End of Year Party with the Nolan Lab
2025.08.01 - Congratulations to Gözde for getting the NSF grant awarded. The project is titled: Collaborative Research: Elucidating and Manipulating Carbon Metabolic Niches in Soil Microbiomes using Synthetic Communities for Sustainable Agriculture.
2025 Demirer Lab Summer Retreat to Long Beach
2025.06.23 Demirer lab at SEED Everyone killing it at the poster session!
2025.06.01 - Congratulations to Kimberley for being selected as Margaret McNamara Fellow!
2025.04.29 - Congratulations to Gözde for being awarded the 2025 Jane Silverthorne Early Career Award from ASPB!
2025.04.04 - Congratulations to Carl for winning the RSI Pioneer Postdoctoral Fellowship!
2025.04.03 - Catherine passed her candidacy exam, congratulations!!
2025.03.21 - Welcome Clair Colee and Andrés Heredia to the Demirer lab.
2025.02.22 Happy birthday to Chiara and Esther!
2024
Inaugural DeMaSh Holiday Party! Demirer, Manthiram, and Shapiro labs come together
2024.12.03 - Kimberley passed her candidacy exam, congratulations!!
2024 Thanksgiving dinner with lab members Festive day appreciating each other and yummy food!
2024.10.23 Getting ready for Halloween happy hour!
2024.09.17 - Congratulations to Chiara for passing her candidacy exam!
2024.08.21 - Congratulations to Gözde for getting the NSF ERC grant, in collaboration with Julia A. Kornfield and Chiara Daraio! We are a part of a bigger collaboration across many universities to sustainably produce natural rubber in plants!
2024.08 Summer party at Gozde’s house Amazing time splashing around in the pool and singing our hearts out at karaoke! 🎶💦
2024.07.01 - Congratulations to Gözde for winning the Rising Stars in Plant Sciences (RSPS2024) award!
A few birthday celebrations for our team members! A lot of delicious cake~
2024.06 Demirer lab at SEED conference Ready to meet the fans that are about to swarm our posters!! Fun pose before poster session :)
2024.06.13 - Congratulations to Eugene for passing his candidacy exam with flying colors!
2024.04.04 - Congratulations to Eugene and Chiara for receiving the NSF GRFP!
2024.03.20 - Congratulations to the undergrad Gigi for getting the ACS best poster award!
2023
2023.12.13 - Congratulations to Yunqing for passing her candidacy exam!
2023.12.08 6th International Conference on Microbiome Engineering Chiara killing it at the poster session!!
2023.12.01 - Welcome Catherine Griffin to the Demirer lab.
2023.11.19 Thanksgiving dinner with everyone Thank you Gozde & Maroof for hosting an amazing evening!
2023.10.23 - Congratulations to Chiara for winning the 2023 CEMI Pilot Proposal Award!
2023.07.03 - Welcome Yuan Geng and Kimberley Tanatswa Muchenje to the Demirer lab.
2023.06.11 Housewarming party at Gözde’s house Lovely night at lovely house🏡 Lovely group pic Lovely group pic
2023.06.05 - Welcome Tufan Oz and Adia Tajima to the Demirer lab.
2023.06.01 First SEED conference Poster session going very well :)
2023.05.10 - Congratulations to Yunqing for being selected as the FFAR Fellow!
2023.04.13 - Congratulations to Mark for passing the candidacy exam!
2023.04.01 Outside lab meeting in the sunny spring
2023.03.29 - Congratulations to Mark for getting the NSF graduate fellowship!
2023.03.17 Aya’s farewell dinner Best wishes to Aya for her academic Journey Osawa dinner plate
2023.03.13 - We received “Caltech Space-Health Innovation Fund” by The Translational Research Institute for Space Health (TRISH)!
2023.03.01 - Congratulations to Gözde for winning the Shurl and Kay Curci Foundation Award!
2023.02.22 - Congratulations to Aya for the admission to UCLA Bioengineering program. Keep on shining!
2023.02.11 Lab retreat in Joshua Tree National Park🍃 Wonderful memories with you all! Sunset hike Sunset hike Lonely Mark up in the hills Homemade burgers
2023.02.06 Celebration of Gozde’s birthday🎂 #BestPI Red Velvet cake. Yummy!
2023.01.30 Celebration of Eugene’s birthday🎂 Best wishes to Eugene with Pink Pineapple :)
2023.01.27 BE admission day poster session Many young faces!
2023.01.02 - Mark’s proposal titled “Engineering Genetically-encoded Nanoparticles for Efficient Protein Delivery in Plants” won the CCE Innovation Award this year!
2022
2022.12.19 - Welcome Jesus M. Galeana to the Demirer lab.
2022.12.17 Lab Thanksgiving Dinner at Gözde’s house Thankful for our growing lab community! Super excited for the coming year of fun science and activities with the team!
2022.10.26 Moving into our beautiful lab space! Cupcake celebration🧁 Demirer lab is up and running!! Growing plants.
2022.07.28 - Congratulations to Gözde for receiving the Clare Boothe Luce Professorship Award!
2022.01.01 - Welcome Mark Legendre to the Demirer lab. Inaugural member, yay!