We kicked off Fall 2023 welcoming new rotators and new pets!
Pet snails depicted, not rotators
At the same time we said goodbye to our visiting student Carina. Even though you weren’t with us for very long, we wish you the best as you return to Germany and look forward to hearing what you do next! But we’re very happy you were able to join us for our group outing!
Brian took us out on a big apple picking outing! We got a little competitive finding trying to pick the tallest apples. And James demonstrates his juggling and magic tricks (he will be forced to do this at every future outing).
And for our lab holiday celebration, Brian took us to an escape room and dinner at Boston High Street Place.
To end off the year, the Liau lab attended the CCB holiday party at the Harvard Natural History Museum. The carving station and mochi donuts went hard.
Lastly, the end of this year was marked by more goodbyes. We celebrated Yumi Koga who defended her thesis “Leveraging Natural Product-derived Ribosome Inhibitors to Study Translation Dynamics”.
Yumi is an outstanding scientist and one of the nicest persons in the group, and she has been the backbone of our chemistry team for such a long time. We will miss her extremely, but celebrate her achievements as she continues onto a postdoc role at UC Berkeley!
And lastly, congratulations to Yumi on winning the Knowles Award for 2023 Bioorganic Chemistry Gordon Research Conference!
Unfortunately we also said goodbye to our lab administrator Lizzy Swenson who has decided to transition to a new role. Thank you for all that you did for us, and we will miss you so much. At the same time we welcome Inês Santos as our new administrator, and we look forward to working with you!