Chekan Lab News

End of Semester Hike and Lunch

April 24, 2026

To celebrate the end of the semester and enjoy the nice weather outside, we hiked around Pilot Mountain and got lunch afterwards!

Congratulations to Victoria

April 22, 2026

Victoria had her public presentation today describing all the amazing work on burpitide methyltransferases she accomplished during her Master’s. She is graduating with her M.S. this semester and starting at LabCorp next month. Congrats!

Science Everywhere Event

April 11, 2026

The lab hosted an event at Science Everywhere were families made thermochromic slime.

Ayoola Defends PhD

March 17, 2026

Congrats to Ayoola for a successful and impressive PhD defense! It was impressive to see all of the successful enzyme engineering and biocatalysis results he generated over his time in the lab.

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