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2025
We started a tabletop RPG campaign on January 16th. Front row from left to right: Adolph Salinas, Emmanuella Asiamah and Caroline Black; Back row from left to right: Md Siddiqur Rahman, Alex Luecke, Catherine Wakeman, and Emily Skinner
2024
On November 7th-9th, ASM Texas Branch held their annual Fall meeting in Galveston, Tx. Pictured on far left image: Alex Luecke, Jace Salgado, Emily Skinner, Vincent Mercado, Nyah Ortiz, Caroline Black, and Emmanuella Asiamah. Caroline was recognized with the S. E. Sulkin Medical Microbiology Award.
We had our back-to-school lab social on September 15th. Pictured in the front row left to right: Caroline Black, Emily Skinner, Hafij Al Mahmud, Prucella Lora and Emmanuella Asiamah; back row left to right: Jace Salgado, Catherine Wakeman, Alex Luecke, and Adolph Salinas
Caroline Black represented to lab at the European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (ESCMID) Global conference on April 27th-30th in Barcelona, Spain. Caroline presented a poster on her work exploring how environmental factors can impact antimicrobial testing.
On February 9th and 10th, the Wakeman lab attended the 12th annual Texas Tech University Annual Biological Sciences Symposium in Lubbock, Tx. Pictured from left to right: Caroline Black, Hafij Al Mahmud, Adolph Salinas, Catherine Wakeman, Alex Luecke, Jacqueline Miralles-Salazar and Vincent Mercado.
Adolph Salinas was awarded "Best Undergraduate Microbiology Poster" (left) and Hafij Al Mahmud was awarded the "Best Graduate Microbiology Oral Presentation (right) at TTABSS 2024.
2023
FORE! We held our Fall social playing mini-golf on November 6th. (From left to right) Catherine Wakeman, Caroline Black, Alex Luecke, Jacqueline Miralles-Salazar, Randy Garcia, Hafij Al Mahmud and Omme Fatema Sultana.
On October 26-28th, Texas ASM held their Fall branch meeting at Tarleton State. Some of my PhD students attended to present their ongoing research.
On October 6th, Texas Tech University held its local 3-Minute Thesis Competition, which challenges students to give a brief synopsis of their theses to a broad audience. My graduate students (from left to right): Alex Luecke, Caroline Black, Jacqueline Miralles-Salazar, and Hafij Al Mahmud all competed this year.
Caroline Black presenting her research at the Fall Texas ASM Branch meeting at Tarleton State University.
This May, we had our first lab social event in some time. It was a great way to celebrate the end of the semester and congratulate our graduating seniors and another Master's student, Alex, who will be returning this summer to start his Ph.D. program!
2022
Congratulation to Caroline Black and Jayc Waller for graduating with their Master's of Science in Spring semester
On June 22nd, we celebrated Jiwasmika's successful dissertation defense. This will be our lab's second Ph.D. student to complete their program. Congratulation Jiwasmika!
2021
Proud moment for the lab. Karishma Bisht, today became the first student from the lab to graduate with a Ph.D.! She gave a fantastic defense talk via Zoom on the 25th of June. We are super proud of her and she has certainly set a high bar for future Wakeman Lab graduate students. Congratulations and we wish her the very best for her postdoc research at Princeton University!
2020
Dr. Wakeman is the guest editor for a special issue of Pathogens MDPI focused on “Microbial interactions during infection” . Submit to this special issue folks. It is a very fascinating topic.
Finally we have a new lab logo designed by Karishma Bisht, a PhD student in the lab. We all love it.