⬆️ (August 2024) Summer lab kayaking trip along the Mississippi River.
⬆️ (August 2024) Cara Chang and Thomas Pelowitz, two outstanding undergraduate interns in our group, present their summer project at the Mayo Clinic Summer Undergraduate Research Symposium. And also a proud PI standing next to each of them!
⬆️ (Apr. 9, 2024) Jaeyun presented a poster on our plasma proteomics work in giant cell arteritis at the 21st International Vasculitis Workshop in Barcelona, Spain.
⬆️ (November 2023) Jaeyun was in San Diego, CA to present on the lab’s giant cell arteritis proteomics work at the American College of Rheumatology annual meeting. He also met with his academic grandfather, the great Dr. Bernhard Palsson (UCSD), for morning coffee, and also received a private tour of San Diego from a Sung Lab alumnus Dr. Sergio Cobo-Lòpez!
⬆️ (September 1, 2023) End-of-summer photos of the Sung Lab.
⬆️ (May 1, 2023) Daniel Chang in our group defended his undergraduate thesis today with flying colors! Special thanks to the other committee members UMN Computer Science faculty Drs. Chad Myers and Dan Knights for the great support and feedback. Lab dinner at Tea House (rumored to be the best Chinese restaurant in Minnesota!) afterward.
(Apr. 2023) Jaeyun participated in Scialog: Microbiome, Neurobiology and Disease, a workshop that brought together young microbiome and neuroscience researchers to advance the understanding of the gut-brain axis. Sponsored by Research Corporation for Science Advancement, Paul G. Allen Frontiers Group, the Frederick Gardner Cottrell Foundation, and the Walder Foundation.
(Jan. 2023) The Center for Individualized Medicine Microbiome Program starts off 2023 with a multi-lab retreat at the historic Mayo Clinic Foundation House.
(Nov. 2022) Ben presents his deep multi-omic immunophenotyping work in seronegative rheumatoid arthritis at the American College of Rheumatology annual meeting (Philadelphia, PA).
⬆️ (Oct. 2022) Jaeyun, Vinod, and Daniel all present at the Cold Spring Harbor Microbiome Meeting. Great effort, Team!
⬆️ (Oct. 2022) Ben (talk) and Kevin (poster) present at the Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES) annual meeting in San Antonio, TX. Terrific work, Gentlemen!
(Aug. 2022) Kevin presents a talk on his thesis work at the University of Minnesota BICB Program Annual Industry Symposium (Minneapolis, MN). He was invited as a faculty-nominated student speaker. Great job, Kevin!
(July 2022) Happy birthday, Kevin! We’re thankful to have you on the team!
(May 2022) We welcome summer in Rochester with a group dinner at Four Daughters Vineyard & Winery! Lots to celebrate for in the past several months and much more to look forward to in the coming few.
(Mar. 2022) Microbiome Centers Consortium meeting at the University of Chicago. It was a great meeting with faculty representing microbiome centers across the country. Faculty met for two days discussing the future of microbiome science and microbiome centers.
(Mar. 2022) Jaeyun gave a workshop talk to biomedical engineering students and faculty at the University of Warwick, Coventry, England, UK.
(June 2021) Farewell dinner for Utpal. Utpal will be leaving the lab soon for his next position—Assistant Professor at the Institute of Advanced Research in Ghandinagar, India! Utpal brought the lab to a new direction, focusing his efforts on building a computational pipeline for natural product discovery in shotgun metagenomes (posted on BioRxiv). Thank you Utpal for all the hard work and camaraderie, and we wish you all the best!
(April 2021) (a peek of things to come!) More often than not, the molecular process underlying any biological function or behavior is not a simple circuit involving a few genes, but a complex, multilayered, and dynamic lattice of interlocking subsystems. Data-driven network graphs are nice tools to simplify that complexity just enough so that domain experts can interpret it, and also hypothesize on the most likely targets for intervention.
(Mar. 2020) Group members attend the International Microbiome Meeting hosted by the Center for Microbiome Innovation at the University of California San Diego. What a fabulous place to have a conference!
(Mar. 2020) During a conference at a time when work travel was still permitted, Dr. Martin Blaser lays down some TRUTH on COVID-19 during the early days of the pandemic. We had no idea the extent of what was coming. 😢
(July 2019) The group visited Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (New York) for the inaugural microbiome meeting, where all post-docs presented posters on their research projects.
(Oct. 2018) Group photo! Don’t we look slick? 😁
(June 2018) Vinod and Minsuk attended the International Human Microbiome Conference in Cork, Ireland.
Lab Halloween Party 2017. Somebody please rescue that 🐼!
(Aug. 2020) Group photo with statues of the Mayo brothers, while practicing proper social-distancing measures 😉
(Mar. 2020) We’re going virtual! First lab meeting held online. A bit awkward at first, but a trivial price for keeping everybody safe!
Lab Halloween Party 2019. That bride is out for blood!
(Mar. 2019) Post-conference tour of the majestic Notre-Dame Basilique of Montreal.
(Sep. 2018) Vinod presents a poster on his current project at the annual Center for Individualized Medicine conference at Mayo Clinic. Great job, Vinod!
(Mar. 2018) Jae was invited for a panel discussion on big data analytics for food and personalized nutrition at Future Food-tech. He shared the stage with (from left) Greg McParland (senior Investment Manager, DSM Venturing), Neil Grimmer (CEO Habit), and Stephanie Naegeli (Global Innovations Director for Food, Nestle).