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Bren Lab @brenlab.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Another week, another defense and the last one for the year!✨🎓 Congratulations to María Fernanda Lizarazo on a spectacular PhD defense.🍾 Cheers to this incredible milestone and the exciting research journey ahead of you! Wishing you all the very best! 🔬🎉

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Bren Lab @brenlab.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

4th PhD defense in the Bren Lab this year!! 🎓 Congratulations to Dr. Kaye Kuphal on her successful defense today! We wish her all the very best in her future endeavors and everything that lies ahead. 🤠🍾🎉

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Bren Lab @brenlab.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Shamitri passed her PhD qualifying exam today!!! Big congratulations and welcome to the post-quals gang! 👏🏻🎊

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Bren Lab @brenlab.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

Mafe sharing her awesome work on biomolecular catalysts + CdSe quantum dots at ACS Spring 2026! ☀️👩🏻‍🔬

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Bren Lab @brenlab.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

Cheers to Ryan on an incredible defense! One of our amazing mentors and an OG photochemist of the lab! Wishing you all the best for everything that comes next!🥳🥂✨

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Bren Lab @brenlab.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

Second defense of the month!!!!! Congratulations Dr. Hafsa Irfan on a successful defense, can't wait to see what she does next, best wishes! 🎉🥳🎓

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Bren Lab @brenlab.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

So great and honored to see our Bren Lab girls, Karishma @karishma11.bsky.social and Alana meet their Academic Grandpa, Prof. Harry B Gray at GRC Metals in Biology, 2026 presenting their cool work on cytochrome c proteins!!🥂🎓

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Bren Lab @brenlab.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

So proud of Dr. Soraya Ngarnim! Congratulations on a fantastic thesis defense and excited to see what's next! 🎉🥂🎓

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Bren Lab @brenlab.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

Happy to have our brand new Bren lab members here!!! 🎉 Welcome Rohith and Liz, excited to see some cool science our new grads will create!!🥂🥳

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Bren Lab @brenlab.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

Shout-out to @karishma11.bsky.social for being awarded the Samuel A. and Ellen F. Lattimore Department Fellowship this year!! Huge congrats!! ✨🙌

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Bren Lab @brenlab.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

Kudos to Alana Huynh for receiving the Robert and Marian Flaherty DeRight Department Fellowship this year!! Well done!!🥂👏

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Bren Lab @brenlab.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

Cheering on Hafsa Irfan for her summer internship at Biogen, North Carolina, where she contributed to drug development and analysis. Way to go Hafsa!! 👏👩‍🔬

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Bren Lab @brenlab.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

Proud of Maria Fernanda Lizarazo for earning a DAAD Scholarship and spending the summer doing research in Germany 🇩🇪 Welcome back to Bren Lab! ✨

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Bren Lab @brenlab.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

Congratulations to @karishma11.bsky.social for winning the Best Poster at Western New York Inorganic Symposium (WNYIS), 2025! 🎉🌟

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Bren Lab @brenlab.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

End of summer picnic, Bren Lab style!! 👜🌳 And cheers to celebrating Alana's birthday!

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Bren Lab @brenlab.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

Alana sharing her exciting research at the CBI retreat 2025!

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Bren Lab @brenlab.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

End of Quals season celebration in the Bren Lab! Alana and Karishma passed their 2nd year oral exam!!!🎉

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Bren Lab @brenlab.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

Congratulations Alana Huynh for winning the "Best Poster in Natural Sciences" at UofR's Graduate Research Day 2025. Way to go!🥳

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Bren Lab @brenlab.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

Karishma and Shamitri representing Bren Lab at the Department's visitation week poster presentation! @karishma11.bsky.social

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Bren Lab @brenlab.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

A huge shout out our amazing visiting student Serena from the Lombardi Lab, University of Naples for her time and hard work in the Bren lab! Your enthusiasm and positive energy have truly been appreciated. Wishing you all the very best for all your future endeavors!! 👏

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Bren Lab @brenlab.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Big congratulations to Kaye Lin Kuphal @kayekuphal.bsky.social on being selected as a leader in Research Safety as part of the ACS Graduate Student and Postdoctoral Scholars Recognition Program! 🎉 Your dedication to ensuring a safe and responsible lab environment is truly inspiring! #LabSafety #ACS

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Bren Lab @brenlab.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Hello world! Bren Lab is now on Bluesky! We focus on developing new molecules, engineered proteins and systems to catalyze energy & environment relevant reactions, drawing inspiration from Nature's own catalysts. #chemsky #bioinorganic #UofR

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