Lab Photos

Celebrating Audrey Covington’s graduation from LMU at the 2024 commencement ceremony!

Three undergraduate students from the lab present their research at The NCUR national meeting (April 9, 2024). From left to right: Marisa Gomez (’26), Day Yamegni (LMU ’25), and Audrey Covington (’24).

Four undergraduate students from the lab present their research at LMU’s Annual Undergraduate Research Symposium (March 15, 2024). Top picture: from left to right: Marisa Gomez (’26), Audrey Covington ( ’24), and Day Yamegni (LMU ’25). Bottom picture: Kennedy Melton (’26) and Dr. Mouzakis.

The spring 2024 research team! From left to right and top to bottom: Neftali Rocha-Martin (’26), Nigel Outley (’26), Audrey Covington (’24), Dr. Mouzakis, Marisa Gomez (’26), Kennedy Melton (’26), and Day Yamegni (’25)

The summer and fall 2023 research team! From left to right: Dr. Mouzakis, Audrey Covington (’24), Marisa Gomez (’26), and Day Yamegni (’25).

Celebrating Madison Maille’s graduation from LMU at commencement 2023:

Three undergraduate students from the lab present their research at LMU’s Annual Undergraduate Research Symposium (March 17, 2023). From left to right: Madison Maille (LMU ’23), Audrey Covington (LMU ’24), and Day Yamegni (LMU ’25).

While in Madison for ASV (July 2022), Dr. Mouzakis caught up with lab alum Becky Soliman. Becky is a 4th year graduate student in Genetics at UW Madison and also producing amazing research!

Dr. Mouzakis presents our HTLV-1 research at RNA Society in June, 2022.

Photos from LMU commencement 2022:

Mary Soliman (second to right) and Dr. Mouzakis (right) celebrate with Mary’s family.
Dr. Mouzakis (left) and Jaynia Garcia (right) celebrate the day in the bright LA sunshine!

Mary Soliman and Dr. Mouzakis after Mary received the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry Michael P. Geis Memorial Research Award in April, 2022.

Jaynia Garcia and Dr. Mouzakis after Jaynia received the American Chemical Society Division of Analytical Chemistry Undergraduate Award in Analytical Chemistry in April, 2022.

Mary Soliman, Madison Maille, and Audrey Covington present their research at the 45th Annual West Coast Biological Sciences Undergraduate Research (WCBSUR) Conference in San Diego, CA, April 9, 2022.

Madison presents her reserach!
Audrey presents her research AND wins Best Poster Award.

Mary Soliman and Madison Maille attend their first discipline specific research confernece and present at the ASBMB national meeting (April 2 – 5, 2022)

Madison Maille and Mary Soliman attending a careers panel discussion!
Mary Soliman presenting her research at the ASBMB undergraduate research poster competition
Madison and Mary present in the main poster session

Five undergraduate students in the lab present their research at LMU’s Annual Undergraduate Research Symposium (March 19, 2022), the first in-person event in two years!!

Mary Soliman shares her latest results as a poster!
Madison Maille (right) shares the results of her summer research. Dr. Mouzakis sneaks in for the photo op.
Audrey Covington gives her first in-person research presentation!
Cole Melton gives his first in-person research presentation!
Leila Robinson shares her summer and Biology Honors thesis research

Dr. Mouzakis and Carolyn Egekeze (’20) celebrated at LMU’s in-person graduation ceremony (July 31, 2021).

Dr. Mouzakis celebrated her tenure and promotion to Associate Professor (official as of 8/15/21)!

The Summer 2021 research team:

Top: Cole Melton, Madison Maille, Dr. Mouzakis, Middle: Mary Soliman, Bottom: Kristal Stevens, Audrey Covington

An action shot from our summer 2021 lab home:

We moved into the LSB 253 Biochemistry Teaching Lab so we could do research while social distancing.

The Spring 2021 research team:

Leila Robinson (left) and Carolyn Egekeze (right) presenting at the Southern California Conferences for Undergraduate Research. San Marcos, CA, USA, November 23, 2019

Summer research group 2019 (left to right: Leila Robinson, Dr. Katie Mouzakis, Mary Soliman)

Mary Soliman (left), Leila Robinson (right), and Carolyn Egekeze presenting their first research poster at the Loyola Marymount University 11th Annual Undergraduate Research Symposium. Los Angeles, CA, USA, March 23, 2019

Marcus Williams presents his research at the National Meeting of the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, in San Diego, CA, April 21 – 25, 2018.

Rebecca Salamon presents her first poster on our research at the Fort Lewis College FOCCUS poster session in June, 2015.

Becky gives her first poster presentation!
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