September 16th 2019
New lab, new start!
December 2019
Three months in. It’s coming together!
January 2020
Lab lunch at the BBQ Saloon to welcome Research Assistant Cherry!
Lab lunch at the Little Saigon to welcome Rotation Student Casey!
February 2020
Lab lunch at the Rasoi to welcome Postdoc Florencia, Visiting Student Ruochen, and Rotation Student Juhee!
May 2020
Juhee Son officially joined our lab as the first graduate student!! Our SARS-CoV-2 enteroid paper was accepted by Science Immunology!!
Lots of other things to celebrate too! We will make it up after the COVID-19 pandemic.
June 2020
With COVID-19 ravaging and no sign of abating, the Ding lab Snack Station is online.
September 16th 2020
We turned one year old today! What a year it has been! Very thankful to people in the lab.
Back: Ruochen, Siyuan, Gaopeng
Front: Cherry, Juhee, Pascaline
Not in the picture: Florencia
November 2020
A bittersweet moment to see Florencia off. We really enjoyed having you around and we will miss you dearly!
January 2021
Ruochen finished one-year visiting scholarship in the lab and will go back to China. We hope to have you back soon!
February 2021
Light at the end of the tunnel!
March 2021
Pascaline is highlighted in a podcast run by Larissa in Mike Diamond’s lab: https://lmtv.podbean.com/
Stay tuned for more exciting studies from Pascaline in the near future.
May 2021
Juhee, our first graduate student, just passed her qualifying exam with flying colors! Good reasons for celebration!
July 2021
Berry and peach picking for our lab retreat. A beautiful day and lots of fun!
September 2021
Lab party to celebrate Avan, our first MSTP student, joining the lab!
October 2021
New lab photo!
December 2021
Departmental holiday party at the Anheuser-Busch Biergarten.
January 2022
What a way to head into 2022!
Avan just received a T32 predoctoral fellowship. Congratulations!
March 2022
Renovation completed and a new chapter started! Celebratory lunch with the Goldberg lab.
May 2022
Symposium and Dinner at the St. Louis Art Museum to celebrate Charlie’s Nobel Prize work done at WashU!
June 2022
Congratulations! Pascaline just received an Early Career Award from the Thrasher Research Fund to investigate potential means to treat rotavirus and other enteric infections. Way to go!
July 2022
Gaopeng just received the Stephen I. Morse Fellowship to study rotavirus innate immune evasion strategies. Congratulations!
The Ding lab showed up and showed out at the 41th American Society for Virology conference at University of Wisconsin, Madison.
September 2022
Our lab is turning three years old! An annual lab retreat at the St. Louis aquarium.
December 2022
Departmental holiday party at the Saint Louis Zoo with Christmas lights!
January 2023
Congratulations to Juhee and Avan on receiving the 2022-2023 Schlesinger-Olivo Student Travel Award!
May 2023
Our first undergraduate Aneesh graduating and onto better things!
June 2023
The Ding lab presenting at the 42th American Society for Virology conference at the University of Georgia.
July 2023
Congratulations to Juhee on receiving the Milton Schlesinger Student Fellowship in Molecular Microbiology!
Oct 2023
Fourth annual lab retreat was a success! Lunch at the boathouse followed with IMAX at the Science center.
Nov 2023
Congratulations to Avan on being awarded a highly competitive F30 pre-doctoral fellowship from NIAID!
Jan 2024
Takahiro got an Assistant Professor position and will return to Japan. The farewell party was a blast! We are so proud of you and we will miss you dearly!
April 2024
Congratulations to Alex on being selected into the prestigious BioSURF program!
June 2024
Gaopeng and Cherry both did an amazing job at the 43rd American Society for Virology conference at THE Ohio State University, Columbus.
Aug 2024
Annual lab retreat is a huge success! Celebrating our 5th anniversary at TopGolf!
