Recent Lab News
2024
Lab coffee walk! :)
Halloween 2024!
Summer BBQ
April 13th, 2024: 2024 Challange 5K. Hammer down cancer!
April 9th, 2024: Say it in 6 finalists, top 10/160 submissions! "We make drug discovery look easy!"
2023
August 30th, 2023: The Mesecar lab attends the final day of the Structural Biology/Biophysics Lab Olympics. Paper hats were worn to perform the lab chant!
July 27th, 2023: Misa Meadows presented the work she did as the Mesecar lab REU student! Here she is pictured with her proud mentors (Uttara and Sydney).
May 16-17, 2023: The Mesecar lab attends Hitchhikers Guide to the Biomolecular Galaxy conference!
April 15, 2023: The Mesecar Lab takes on The Challenge 5K to support the Purdue Institute for Cancer Research.
Celebratory post race breakfast.
2021
August 20, 2021: The Mesecar Lab is taking graduate students. Enjoy pictures of our recruiting efforts! Are you ready to join the Mesecar Lab?
July 28, 2021: When the boss man purchases wish-list items…. So excited to get this unpacked!
July 26, 2021: And we are ready to ship again! What do we have looped this time?! Fingers crossed for a great day of data collection tomorrow.
June 26, 2021: Sometimes new meeting new Mesecar Lab puppies makes data collection even better! Welcome to the clan, Frankie!
June 17, 2021: Celebrated Monica Mesecar before she heads off to her post-bac program at the University of Michigan. Nowhere better to celebrate than Harry’s Chocolate Shop.
June 4, 2021: Congratulations to Andy for receiving the Provost’s Award for Outstanding Graduate Mentor. Only one faculty awarded each year and nominated by present and past students.
2020
December 1, 2020: The traditional Mesecar Lab decorations are overflowing the second floor of Hockmeyer! We are thankful for our janitors who have embraced the Christmas spirit in helping plug in our blow-ups each morning before we get to work!
Oct. 16, 2021: Celebrating the season by bringing out our inner artistic skills with carving pumpkins. Some of us weren’t as brave with scooping out pumpkin guts…
Sept. 25, 2021: Thank you Dr. Ghosh for the Ghosh Lab T-shirts. Excited to represent the “G-Force” at Purdue!
April 2, 2020: We were prepared and ready to research SARS-CoV-2 proteases while the rest of the university shut down!
March 25, 2020: Official mask mandate is enforced at Purdue University and in the Mesecar Lab. The students are so excited!
March 4, 2020: Our student, Emma, is one of the safest people in lab when measuring SDS!
February 26, 2020: Andy presenting the lab’s work in the Drug Discovery building—filmed for online viewers!
January 30, 2020: Andy is famous!! When you’re researching a field that ends up resulting in a worldwide pandemic, people want to listen to what you have to say!
January 28, 2020: Mackenzie’s trip to the Advanced Photon Source with her crystals buckled-in! Great day of data collection with some amazing scientist at the SBC beamline.
