Big thanks to the nanoHUB team for organizing an insightful hands-on workshop on FAIR Workflows at Purdue University, IND! Grateful for the constant guidance and support from my mentor, Dr. Wilson Poon. Excited to integrate these skills into my LNP research! #FAIR #research

Our lab will be at SFBiomaterials Southwest Symposium this week in UT Austin Texas BME! 🧬🧫🫀🫁 2 of our UTEP Biomedical Engineering students Hannia Balcorta & Mario 🔥 will present posters on our latest #LNP work! ⚗️💉🔬✨ See y'all there! #SFB #RegionalSymposia2024

Had a great time at SFBiomaterials Southwest Regional Meeting today! 🌞🏜️🐃 Finally met my @UTTRC4 mentor Teja Guda in-person and my Poon Lab @ UTEP students Hannia Balcorta & Mario 🔥 did fantastic jobs presenting their #LNP research posters! 👨‍🔬👩‍🔬🔬 #proudPI #newPI

Our lab is at the Biomedical Engineering Society Annual Meeting in Baltimore, MD this week! We have 3 poster presentations by our PI (Wilson Poon) and 2 UTEP Biomedical Engineering PhD students (Deepali Bisht & Denice Peter)! 👨🏻‍🔬👩🏽‍🔬👨🏽‍💻 Come check out our latest #LNP research! 🧬⚗️🧫🔬💉🐁🫁✨ #BMES2024

Very busy day today - commuted 3h to NIH in Bethesda this morning from Baltimore 🚆🚇, but it was so worth it to learn about BME collab opportunities, presenting my research, & networking with program officers! 👨‍⚕️👷‍♂️👨‍🔬 Thank you NIBIB & Platt Lab for organizing this! #newPI

Yearly dinner outing of Poon Lab @ UTEP & The Srivastava Lab @ Texas Tech at Biomedical Engineering Society national meetings continues to it’s Y2, this time at Fogo de Chão Brasil 🥩🥙 #BMES2024

Super proud of Poon Lab @ UTEP students Deepali Bisht & Denice Peter for doing an excellent job presenting their posters at #BMES2024 this afternoon! Thanks to everyone who stopped by to check out our research! #proudPI #newPI 🤩🤩🤩

Happy belated birthday to our masters student Mario 🔥! 🥳🎉🎊 Today's cake flavor is figgy foggy Chantilly! 🌸🍰🍯🍫

Happy new year! 🎉 We're kicking off 2025 with excitement as we expand into our newly renovated molecular biology lab space! 🧬⚗️🔬✨ Ready for fresh beginnings and new discoveries ahead!

Had an amazing time at TAMEST 2025 this week in Irving as a TAMEST Protégé! 🙌🏻 🎉💡 Many thanks to my UTEP Biomedical Engineering program director Thomas Boland for the nomination, and the organizers for selecting my work as one of the top 20 to be featured in the Poster Challenge! 👨🏻‍🔬🏅 🔬 ✨

Wrapping up an inspiring 2 days at the 2nd Annual @UTSystem Trauma Research Symposium! 🤕🚑🦾🦿 It was great presenting our posters & engaging with the trauma research community. Very grateful to @UTTRC4 for the funding support - we're inspired to keep pushing forward! 👨🏻‍🔬🔬⚗️💉

Thanks Howard University College of Pharmacy and Dr Baskaran for inviting me to share the cool research happening in Poon Lab @ UTEP at their departmental seminar series! 👨🏻‍🔬💊🔬✨ What a beautiful campus to visit with (some) blooming cherry blossoms! 🌸🌸🌸

Friends! I'll be at #ACSSpring2025 in San Diego this week! Come check out my talk in the ACS BIOT / ACS POLY Division session on Delivery and Targeting of Nanoparticles on Tues Mar 25 afternoon! 🚚👨🏻‍🔬🧪⚗️ Also, please send recommendations for restaurants, cafes, and bars! 🍽️☕️🍻

Thank you Chixia Tian for inviting me to visit Virginia Tech Science! 🦃🎓🧪⚗️ It was a pleasure giving my lecture in Advanced Nanomedicine, sharing Poon Lab @ UTEP research, and connecting with the brilliant faculty & students! Grateful for the hospitality & insightful conversations! ✨🔬👨🏻‍🔬💡

Our latest research from Poon Lab @ UTEP - "Development of Chemical Tags for Universal Lipid Nanoparticle Visualization and Tracking in 2D and 3D Imaging" - is now published in Nano Letters! ✨🔬🧫🐁 Learn more about our SPARKLE tags here: pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac…

Extremely proud of Poon Lab @ UTEP this academic year, we cleaned up at the MMBME Annual Banquet last night!🥳🎉🍾🥂 4 graduates, 2 research awards, 2 departmental achievement awards, 2 academic honors, and 2 student organization recognitions! 🎓🎖️🏆🥇 #proudPI

What a privilege it is to once again be the history speaker at the UTEP Engineering Pre-Commencement Order of the Engineer & Hooding Ceremony! Congrats to all the new initiates & a special shout-out to Mario 🔥, soon-to-be 2nd MS grad from Poon Lab @ UTEP ! 🎓🥂🍾🙌🏻