Catherine and Justin both won presentation awards at the 2025 MMG/MID retreat a few weeks ago! 👏🏼 way to go van Hooligans!
Congratulations to Dr. Lee-Ann Notice-Sarpaning who successfully defended her PhD yesterday! We are so proud of you!
There’s no door decorating contest; we just like to be festive 🎅🏻🎄 last week before the holiday break! ✨
Congratulations to PhD student and vanHooligan Sayef on winning an award for the great talk he gave at the Texas branch of @ASMicrobiology and to the three other @MIDatGSBS students that won an award for their poster presentations.
The van Hooligans had a great time at #renfest! Texas graced us with some beautiful weather ☀️
Senior grad student Lee-Ann painted this pumpkin for outside our lab! 🎃 #spookyseason
Our summer microSURP student Yoksha Muruganantham liked us so much that she decided to stay in the lab for her entire sophomore year at Rice! 🥳
The van Hoof lab is a full house this summer! ☀️ Welcome to Yoksha, a microSURP undergraduate student, and Haden, a 1st year graduate student doing her first rotation with us!
