February 2025: Professor Srivastava, Asma, Isabella, and Hasnat turned heads at the 2025 WCOE Inaugural Research Day!
Congrats to Isabella (top winner 🥇) and Asma on their “Most Popular Poster Presentation” awards!
December 2024: Amid final exam chaos, some of our lab members came together to take our last picture of the year. Wishing everyone a nice holiday season 🎄
November 2024: Asma and Bella took a trip to Amarillo, Texas to conduct IR VIVO imaging for an ongoing project at TTUHSC’s pharmacy school.
October 2024: Prof. Srivatava hosted our lab halloween party featuring our researchers’ pumpkin masterpieces! 🎃
October 2024: Prof. Srivastava, Isabella, and Asma attended BMES in Baltimore for the 2024 Annual Meeting. Asma and Isabella presented their ongoing projects at the conference’s cancer poster talk sessions. Prof. Srivastava was a session chair for the ‘AI/ML-guided Biomaterials Design and Synthesis’.
June 2024: The lab celebrated Prof. Srivastava’s birthday at Chili’s. We also welcomed two high school students, Hannah and Nevea, who’ll be working with us this summer through the Clark’s Scholars Program and ERIE Internship.
Lab Photos
March 2025: Asma successfully completed her qualifying presentation over 3D Tumor-Mimicking Phantom Models for Assessing NIR-I/II Nanoparticles in Fluorescence- Guided Surgical Interventions. Congrats to our Ph.D. candidate!
February 2025: New lab pics! 📷
February 2025: More presentation practice for our lab members! Asma, Bella, Hasnat, and Posy presented their respective projects at the 2025 Texas Tech Annual Biological Sciences Symposium.
May 2024: Nate and Prof. Srivastava headed to Amarillo for some NIR-II imaging and enjoyed some good BBQ food. We also bid adieu to our undergrads, Nate and Jonathan by giving them signed baseball souvenirs as parting gifts.
April 2024: Exciting times at the Undergraduate Research Conference where our rockstar undergrad presented their first-ever research poster presentation experience. Big congrats to Nate and Isabella for winning the Outstanding Undergrad. researcher awards. Nate further won the LEDA Commercialization Potential award for our 3D tumor cell mimicking phantoms projects. Prof. Srivastava was awarded the Outstanding Undergrad Mentor award.
March 2024: Our lab journal club meetings have now transitioned into regular lab meetings. This week, Nate and Jonathan shared their results and their progress on their 3D tumor cell-mimicking phantom projects. We also celebrated our undergraduate researcher Isabella’s birthday with strawberry cheesecake white cake and lab dinner at MotoMedi for some Mediterranean food.
March 2024: Prof. Srivastava, Nate, and Ken spent the weekend conducting afterglow imaging experiments and celebrated their good data with some cheeseburgers from Blue Sky Texas.
January 2024: We celebrated a successful submission of our latest proposal and the start of the Spring semester by watching Studio Ghibli’s The Boy and The Heron.
December 2023: We successfully made our first tumor-mimicking phantoms in the laboratory and followed it up by imaging them using an IVIS Imager.
December 2023: We celebrated our lab’s inaugural’s Christmas gathering indulging in a lot of sushi and pies, while also partaking in the festive tradition of Secret Santa.
September 2023: We had our first lab Nano-Bio journal club. Hayes presented a journal article on Cancer Exosomes and there was excellent discussion that followed. To ensure a fair schedule for our journal club presentations, we picked names out of a Pokeball!
October 2023: It rained cats and dogs last night in Lubbock, but that didn't dampen our spirits to wake up early for our first group picture!
September 2023: In this week’s journal club, Bella presented a journal article on Protein Corona with very in-depth insights into the experiments and tying it up with other seminal protein corona papers in the nano-bio field. We followed it up by having our first lab outing to get ice cream at Braum’s.
October 2023: Prof. Srivastava attended the BMES National Meetings in Seattle (first as new PI). He co-moderated “Cancer Mechanobiology” session in the Cancer Technologies Track. He absolutely loved the food scenes and eccentric weather in Seattle as it was reminiscent of Champaign (and Chicago).
October 2023: Our weekly Nano-Bio journal club resumed after a brief hiatus. This week, we talked about Hyper-branched Gold Nanoconstructs (Kathryn) and Nanocarrier-Enabled Image-Guided Therapy (Asma). We celebrated our undergraduate researcher Nate’s birthday and our first pre-proposal submission with carrot cake and sushi at Hayashi Midtown.
