News at Shen Lab

• Leah Banker, you did it! Congratulations on this well-deserved acceptance to William S. Boyd School of Law (2024). We wish you great success on your new journey, and please know, you have made us proud.
• Tamara Kabbani, we truly commend you for your acceptance to UNR Medical School, class of 2028. Medical school will be a novel experience, but we have no doubt that you will excel wonderfully. Congratulations, and cheers to your future achievements!
• A big congratulations to Santiago Bataller for his acceptance in 2023 as a postdoc to USDA (Albany, California).We are so proud of you Santi!
• Azeem Majid has been accepted and will continue his education at the Touro College of Osteopathic Medicine, class of 2027. Congratulations on a significant milestone with many more to come!
• We give a grand round of applause to Kenneth Watanabe for his recruitment to Lanier Technical College, Georgia as a biology instructor (2022). Wishing you all the best!
• Anne (Nikki) Jinky Villacastin successfully defended her Ph.D. dissertation on July 14, 2022. She will join Dr. Jenny Mortimer’s research group at the Berkeley Lab as a postdoc in Septemper 2022. Shen Lab is proud of Nikki's achievements and looking forward to hearing great news from her in the future.
• Keeley Adams has been accepted to School of Medicine, Uniformed Services University. He is heading to Washington D.C. in early August, 2022. This program pay all his tution and give him a unbelievably high stipend for the duration of the program. It is an extremely competive program. Congratulations!
• Adriana Baker joined the University of Texas Health San Antonio MSTP (Medical Scientist Training Program) as an M.D./Ph.D. student in Sept. 2021. This program pays her tuition, other school-associated costs, healthcare, and gives her a stipend for the duration of the program. It is an extremely competive program. Congratulations!
• Fredrick Bragg Jr. has been accepted into the LSAMP Spring Semester Research Exprience for 2020. We look forward to his accomplishments!
• Adriana Baker and Keeley Adams both presented at UNLV's Spring 2019 Undergraduate Research Conference. Adriana won second place under Science and Engineering Poster Presentations! Thank you both for representing Shen Lab!
• Sandy Haneefzai has been awarded a fellowship through NSF EpSCoR UROP for summer of 2019. Well done!
• Anna Vigil has been accepted to the University of Washington Genome Sciences Summer Undergradaute Research Program for the summer of 2019 at Seattle! Congratulations!
• Adriana Baker has been selected as Ambassador for the Office of Undergraduate Research for the Spring of 2019 Graduation! Congratulations!
• Timothy Ogburn has been accepted to University of Nevada, Reno School of Medicine. Congratulations!
• Kevin Canales has been accepted to Touro University Medical School in 2019! Congratulations!
• Anna Vigil has been accepted as a McNair Scholar in Fall, 2018! Congrats!
• Adriana Baker has recieved the ABRCMS 2018 Presenter Award in Indianapolis. Well done!
• The research of Shen Lab was featured on October 2nd, 2018 in UNLV Innovation Magazine thanks to the hard work of our former and current members.
• Keeley Adams has been accepted into the Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program with Nevada INBRE for the Summer of 2018. Congragulations!
• Adrian Mangio has been accepted to the University of Nevada, Reno School of Medicine and will matriculate there in August 2018. Congratulations, Adrian!
• Congratulations to Kenneth Watanabe for his recruitment in January 2018 by Emory University as a bioinformaticist!
• Timothy Ogburn has recieved SSRE undergraduate research funding from the AANAPISI, LSAMP, and the McNair Scholars Institute. Congratulations!
• Rachelle Lamug has been accepted to the UNLV Research Honors program in the Fall of 2017. Well done!
• Elizabeth Delgado has been accepted to the graduate program at the University of Florida (Fall 2017). Congratulations, Eli!
• Congratulations to Rachelle Lamug and Rin Boonjue for receiving the AANAPISI SRI Fellowship for the summer of 2017!
• Arielle Homayouni was accepted into the Molecular Genetics and Genomics Program at Washington University in St. Louis in the Fall of 2016. Great job, Arielle!
• Congratulations to Ty Adeseye, former lab member, on his acceptance to Harvard School of Dental Medicine!
• Jennifer Lopez was just accepted to the Kansas City University of Medicine and Biosciences (KCUMB), class of 2019. Congratulations, Jen!
• Arielle Homayouni received the 2014-2015 Academic NSF EPSCoR Undergraduate Research Fellowship. Great job, Arielle!
• In summer 2012, Shen lab hosted as many as 10 undergraduate students to gain some valuable research experience. They are: Norris Lam, Zhiqi Feng, Charlotte Choi, Afan Tarar, Rita Akopian, Iqra Butt, Michael Korczynski, Ty Adetaye Adeseye, Joshua George and Tahmina Ahmad. Welcome!
• Charlotte Choi received a NSF EPSCoR fellowship for Summer, 2012. Congratulations, Charlotte!
• The former lab member, Zhen Xie (谢震) was recruited by Tsinghua University (清华大学) as a full professor in 2011. The university is ranked #1 or #2 (varies from year to year) in China and is among top 100 universities in the world. We are very proud of him. You may want to visit his website.
• Diana Hua was rewarded an NSF EPSCoR fellowship for Summer 2011. Please say congratulatons to her.
• Rhea Conlu received an NSF EPSCoR Fellowship for Spring 2011. Great job!
• Norris Lam received three fellowships: NSF EPSCoR, NIH INBRE and the nationally competitive ASPB summer research fellowship. He set a record!
• Christina Yap was awarded an NSF EPSCoR fellowship for the Fall 2009 semester. Congratulations.
• Ryan Huang was awarded an NSF EPSCoR fellowship and a NIH INBRE UROP undergraduate research fellowship. Great job!
• Wendy Seto was awarded with an NSF EPSCoR undergraduate research fellowship to work in our lab this summer. Congratulation, Wendy.
• Zhen Xie, a former PhD student in the lab, was selected as an outstanding UNLV graduate. [Video]
• Zhen Xie is the first UNLV graduate accepted by Harvard University as a postdoctoral fellow. He will work in the FAS Center for Systems Biology, starting July 2006.