Decided to have a start of fall lab lunch

We walked over to Blackstone to get a Ronning lab lunch before Saabea and Soma left the lab. We also welcomed Zalak and Rajashree, new rotation students, to the Ronning lab.

Ronning Lab Cookout

The Ronning lab celebrated the end of the summer with the annual cookout. In attendance where the Ronning lab residents and those Ronning lab participants who will be missed when the summer ends: rotation student Soma, Saabea, and Brittany. Evelyn will be ending her internship with the Ronning lab. We wish you all luck with your future research.

Evelyn presents her SURP internship results.

Evelyn Stuck from U of MN-Crookston spent the summer in the Ronning lab for her SURP-supported internship. We enjoyed having Evelyn in the lab and will miss her when she leaves to finish her time in Crookston. Great job Ev

Research Day commemorates the accomplishments of Jonathan Vennerstrom

Research day celebrated my colleague Jonathan Vennerstrom and his numerous accomplishments. Among others, Courtney Aldrich (U of MN) and Vennerstrom lab alum Dan Flaherty (Purdue U) joined us for the celebration on the UNMC campus.

First useful Cryo-EM images

Part of the Ronning lab traveled to Iowa State to try some cryo-EM experiments. We commemorated the apparent success with a selfie.

Research day for area high school students

Omaha’s Henry Doorly Zoo hosted area high school students as they presented posters on their research. Bryan did an awesome job presenting his data.

Bryan meets the Secretary of Education

The US Secretary of Education visited Omaha to meet with students from the High School Alliance.

The Ronning Lab welcomes Bryan Benitez

Brian is part of the High School Alliance. He is a high school senior and will doing some research in the Ronning Lab this semester. Welcome Bryan.

Graduation celebration

We decided to celebrate Yahani’s and Thilina’s graduation as a group by going to Stirnella for dinner. We even decided to let some guy from the UNL Chemistry department join us.

Thilina and Yahani Ph.D. hooding ceremony

Both Thilina and Yahani decide they wanted to attend their hooding ceremonies to culminate receiving their Ph.D. It was a fun day at the Omaha Conservatory of Music for the Ronning lab as well as many other students and faculty from the Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences.