Life in the Lab

Emily Bontekoe presenting her work on T cell receptor engineering at the 2025 Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences Immunology Program retreat.

Barbara Nassif presenting her work on T cell receptor engineering at the 2025 Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences Immunology Program retreat.

Emily Bontekoe presenting her work on T cell receptor engineering at the 2025 Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences Immunology Program retreat.

Barbara Nassif presenting her work on T cell receptor engineering at the 2025 Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences Immunology Program retreat.

Amanda Montoya presenting her poster on T cell isolation methods at the Annual THNMO retreat.

Emily Bontekoe presenting her work on targeting EGFR-mutant drug-tolerant persister cells with T cell engineering at the Annual THNMO retreat.

Peixin Jiang presenting his work on profiling of bystander T cells in lung cancer at the Annual THNMO retreat.

Minying Zhang presenting her work on T cell engineering for the treatment of EGFR-mutant lung cancer at the Annual THNMO retreat.

Meredith Frank presenting her work

Hui Nie presenting her poster

Hui Nie presenting her poster

Minying Zhang presenting her poster

Minying Zhang presenting her poster

Peixin Jiang presenting his poster

Peixin Jiang presenting his poster

Peixin Jiang presenting his work

Minying Zhang presenting her work

Hui Nie presenting her work

Fahriye Duzagac presenting her work on neoantigen-specific TCRs in lynch syndrome at the Society for Immunotherapy of Cancer Annual Meeting.

Meredith Frank presents on novel tumor infiltrating lymphocyte expansion methods in NSCLC at the SITC Tumor Immune Microenvironment workshop.

Summer Undergraduate Research Program participant Theresa Vanderventer presents on the immune microenvironment in LKB1-deficient NSCLC tumors

Peixin Jiang presenting his work on single cell sequencing of heterogeneous and bystander TILs in NSCLC at the Symposium for Cancer Research

Peixin Jiang presenting his work on single cell sequencing of heterogeneous and bystander TILs in NSCLC at the Symposium for Cancer Research

Peixin Jiang presenting his work on single cell sequencing of heterogeneous and bystander TILs in NSCLC at the Future of Immunology Symposium

Spencer Lea presenting analysis of the T cell repertoire in early-stage NSCLC from the ICON cohort at the Future of Immunology Symposium

Spencer Lea presenting analysis of the T cell repertoire in early-stage NSCLC from the ICON cohort at the Future of Immunology Symposium

Isabel Perez-Sandi presenting her elevator speech at the 2023 Summer Experience Elevator Speech Competition

Isabel Perez-Sandi presenting her work at the University Outreach Summer Program Symposia

Lab lunch celebrating Amanda joining the lab. L to R: Alexandre Reuben, Amanda Montoya, Minying Zhang, Hui Nie, Emily Bontekoe, Peixin Jiang

Celebrating Isabel’s summer in our lab. L to R: Peixin Jiang, Minying Zhang, Rahel Bezabih, Isabel Perez-Sandi, Hui Nie and Alexandre Reuben

Celebrating Emily’s rotation in our lab. L to R: Amanda Hernandez, Hui Nie, Isabel Perez-Sandi, Alexandre Reuben, Emily Bontekoe and Peixin Jian

Celebrating Spencer’s rotation in the lab. L to R: Peixin Jiang, Spencer Lea, Alexandre Reuben and Hui Nie

Virtually celebrating the work of CPRIT/CURE trainees and arrival of Meredith in the lab

Celebrating Kaylene’s rotation in the lab. L to R: Meredith Frank, Kaylene Lu, Alexandre Reuben and Peixin Jiang

Celebrating Meredith’s successful graduation. L to R: Kyle Concannon, Peixin Jiang, Meredith Frank and Alexandre Reuben