Life in the Lab
Research Presentations
2025 Thoracic/Head & Neck Medical Oncology Annual Research Retreat
Emily Bontekoe presenting her work on T cell receptor engineering
Emily Bontekoe presenting her work on T cell receptor engineering
Peixin Jiang presenting his work on bystander T cells
Jared Slone presenting his work on TCR/epitope predictions
Amanda Montoya presenting her work on novel T cell enrichment methodologies
2024 Thoracic/Head & Neck Medical Oncology Annual Research Retreat
Amanda Montoya presenting her poster on T cell isolation methods
Emily Bontekoe presenting her work on targeting EGFR-mutant drug-tolerant persister cells with T cell engineering
Peixin Jiang presenting his work on profiling of bystander T cells in lung cancer
Minying Zhang presenting her work on T cell engineering for the treatment of EGFR-mutant lung cancer
Earlier Thoracic/Head & Neck Medical Oncology Annual Research Retreats
Meredith Frank presenting her work
Hui Nie presenting her poster
Hui Nie presenting her poster
Minying Zhang presenting her poster
Minying Zhang presenting her poster
Peixin Jiang presenting his poster
Peixin Jiang presenting his poster
Peixin Jiang presenting his work
Minying Zhang presenting her work
Hui Nie presenting her work
2025 Immunology Program Retreat
Emily Bontekoe presenting her work on T cell receptor engineering
Barbara Nassif presenting her work on T cell receptor engineering
Emily Bontekoe presenting her work on T cell receptor engineering
Barbara Nassif presenting her work on T cell receptor engineering
Future of Immunology Symposium
Peixin Jiang presenting his work on single cell sequencing of heterogeneous and bystander TILs in NSCLC
Spencer Lea presenting analysis of the T cell repertoire in early-stage NSCLC from the ICON cohort
Spencer Lea presenting analysis of the T cell repertoire in early-stage NSCLC from the ICON cohort
Symposium for Cancer Research
Other Presentations
Chih Wei Chu presenting the work from her rotation in the lab at the 6th Annual GCC Innovative Drug Discovery and Development Conference.
Fahriye Duzagac presenting her work on neoantigen-specific TCRs in lynch syndrome at the Society for Immunotherapy of Cancer Annual Meeting.
Meredith Frank presents on novel tumor infiltrating lymphocyte expansion methods in NSCLC at the SITC Tumor Immune Microenvironment workshop.
Summer Undergraduate Research Program participant Theresa Vanderventer presents on the immune microenvironment in LKB1-deficient NSCLC tumors
Isabel Perez-Sandi presenting her elevator speech at the 2023 Summer Experience Elevator Speech Competition
Isabel Perez-Sandi presenting her work at the University Outreach Summer Program Symposia
Lab Meetings
Celebrating the return of in-person lab meetings
Left to right: Peixin Jiang, Alexandre Reuben, Minying Zhang, Hui Nie
Lab meeting brunch to celebrate the holidays
Left to right: Amanda Montoya, Minying Zhang, Peixin Jiang, Alexandre Reuben, Emily Bontekoe, Hui Nie
Outside of the Lab
Representing the lab at the Annual Lab Olympics Competition for the Department of Thoracic/Head & Neck Medical Oncology
Lab Lunches
Celebrating Chih Wei Chu¡¯s time in the lab
Celebrating Nourhan Ahmed¡¯s time in the lab
Celebrating Amanda joining the lab
2023 holiday lunch at Local Foods
Celebrating Emily¡¯s rotation in our lab
Celebrating Isabel¡¯s summer in our lab
Celebrating Meredith¡¯s graduation
Celebrating Kaylene¡¯s rotation in the lab
Celebrating Spencer¡¯s rotation in the lab
Virtually celebrating the work of CPRIT/CURE trainees and arrival of Meredith in the lab
Celebrating the holidays 2019