BME lab @UTEP designing improved drug carriers to deliver medical agents to specific sites in the body 🧬🧫🧪🔬 Tweets by lab members & @wilsonpoon
El Paso, TX
Joined June 2022
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🤩 #BMES2026 here we come! 🛬🌴🏖️
We are excited to represent @UTEPBME with 3 podium presentations on #nanomedicine!
@wilsonpoon is also chairing a session on Molecular Sensors & Nanodevices!
Come find us, we look forward to catching up and chatting science! 🔬🧬🔎 – at El Paso, TX
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A wonderful full-circle moment this past Friday when we hosted Prof. Warren Chan (@TheChanLab) from @NTUsg as our @UTEPBME Seminar speaker 🎓✨ Having my former PhD mentor fly across the world to visit my lab, meet my students, & inspire the department meant the world to me💡🥹🙌🏻 – at El Paso, TX
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Very proud of @ThePoonLab undergrad students who presented their summer research posters yesterday at the COURI Summer Symposium! 👏🏻👏🏻 Xiomara presented her receptor KO work 👩🔬🧪🧫🔬, while Rayce showcased his lateral flow assay development for wound management 👨🔬🏥🩹🦠! #proudPI – at El Paso, TX
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Huge congrats to @Mariomata099 for successfully defending his MS thesis yesterday - accepted as is with no corrections! 👨🎓⚗️🔬🐁 He is the 1st @UTEPBME grad of @ThePoonLab & I'm so proud of what he has pioneered in not only my lab, but also the IBN imaging core! 🥳🎉🍾👏🏻 #proudPI
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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 @Mariomata099, soon-to-be 2nd MS grad from @ThePoonLab ! 🎓🥂🍾🙌🏻 – at El Paso, TX
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Extremely proud of @ThePoonLab 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 – at El Paso, TX
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Our latest research from @ThePoonLab - "Development of Chemical Tags for Universal Lipid Nanoparticle Visualization and Tracking in 2D and 3D Imaging" - is now published in @NanoLetters! ✨🔬🧫🐁 Learn more about our SPARKLE tags here: pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs…
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Thank you @CTiannano for inviting me to visit @VT_Science! 🦃🎓🧪⚗️ It was a pleasure giving my lecture in Advanced Nanomedicine, sharing @ThePoonLab research, and connecting with the brilliant faculty & students! Grateful for the hospitality & insightful conversations! ✨🔬👨🏻🔬💡
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Friends! I'll be at #ACSSpring2025 in San Diego this week! Come check out my talk in the @ACS_BIOT / @POLY_ACS session on Delivery and Targeting of Nanoparticles on Tues Mar 25 afternoon! 🚚👨🏻🔬🧪⚗️ Also, please send recommendations for restaurants, cafes, and bars! 🍽️☕️🍻
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Thanks @HuPharm_college and Dr Baskaran for inviting me to share the cool research happening in @ThePoonLab at their departmental seminar series! 👨🏻🔬💊🔬✨ What a beautiful campus to visit with (some) blooming cherry blossoms! 🌸🌸🌸 – at Washington, DC
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! 👨🏻🔬🔬⚗️💉 – at Austin, TX
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Had an amazing time at @TAMESTX 2025 this week in Irving as a TAMEST Protégé! 🙌🏻 🎉💡 Many thanks to my @UTEPBME 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! 👨🏻🔬🏅 🔬 ✨ – at Irving, TX
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! – at El Paso, TX
Happy belated birthday to our masters student @Mariomata099! 🥳🎉🎊 Today's cake flavor is figgy foggy Chantilly! 🌸🍰🍯🍫 – at El Paso, TX
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Super proud of @ThePoonLab students @Deepalibisht09 & @DenicePete83047 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 🤩🤩🤩 – at Baltimore, MD
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Yearly dinner outing of @ThePoonLab & @LabSrivastava at @BMESociety national meetings continues to it’s Y2, this time at @fogodechaobr 🥩🥙
#BMES2024
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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 @NIBIBgov & @DrPlattLab for organizing this! #newPI – at Bethesda, MD
Our lab is at the @BMESociety Annual Meeting in Baltimore, MD this week! We have 3 poster presentations by our PI (@wilsonpoon) and 2 @UTEPBME PhD students (@Deepalibisht09 & @DenicePete83047)! 👨🏻🔬👩🏽🔬👨🏽💻 Come check out our latest #LNP research! 🧬⚗️🧫🔬💉🐁🫁✨ #BMES2024 – at Baltimore, MD
New Fall 2024 @ThePoonLab group photo just dropped! We've grown quite a bit since last year, officially introducing our new (and some returning) lab members in this thread! 👨🔬👩🔬🧑🔬 – at El Paso, TX
Angel rejoins the lab as a staff member - he is our research technician / lab manager! We also have two new graduate students - Jael rejoins as a BME PhD student, and Che joins as a BME MS student! 🫀🧫🧬💉 – at El Paso, TX
