Kudos!

Our lab values the acknowledgement of group members' contributions beyond public awards, publications, and fellowships awarded. This Kudos page is a place where lab members can publicly acknowledge each other for going above and beyond their normal lab responsibilities.

2024

NOVEMBER: Kudos to... Natalie Wu-Woods, who led the submission of two City of Hope proposal submissions with our collaborators.

NOVEMBER: Kudos to... the team that led a proposal submission to the Merkin Institute: Natalie Wu-Woods (lead writer, framing, and project manager), Chris Neimeth (framing and drafting, literature), and Anika Gupta (literature, editing).

OCTOBER: Kudos to... the team that led an R21 submission to NIH's NIAID: Reid Akana (lead writer, aims and introduction drafting, figure creation), Anna Romano (aims drafting and literature), Greg Fedewa (writing, editing, and literature), Shruteek Mairal (writing, editing, and literature), and Matt Ratanapanichkich (literature).

OCTOBER: Kudos to... Alex Viloria Winnett, who led the framing and writing of a grant proposal to the Jacobs Institute.

OCTOBER: Kudos to... the whole lab for passing the annual Lab Safety EHS inspection with flying colors!

OCTOBER: Kudos to... the team that led a White Paper submission to DARPA: Matt Cooper, Reid Akana, Greg Fedewa, Shruteek Mairal,

JULY: Kudos to... the team leading the resubmission of an R21 grant: Matt Ratanapanichkich as lead, framing and writing, assembling figures, Anna Romano and Chris Neimeth for identifying appropriate citations and co-writing the Significance section, Greg Fedewa for providing feedback and bioinformatics advice, Natalie Wu-Woods for a small literature review.

JULY: Kudos to... Shruteek Mairal and Chris Neimeth for leading a grant submission to the Caltech Innovation in Education Fund.

JULY: Kudos to... Chris Neimeth and Ojas Pradhan for leading the resubmission of an NIH R01 proposal.

MAY: Kudos to... Si Hyung Jin for leading the resubmission of a Rothenberg Innovation Initiative (RI2) proposal.

APRIL: Kudos to... Si Hyung Jin and Anna Romano for their pre-submission proposal to the ARPA-H Sprint for Women opportunity.

MARCH: Kudos to… Ojas Pradhan for taking the lead on addressing the IACUC reviewer requests on a lab-wide animal protocol renewal.

FEBRUARY: Kudos to… Ojas Pradhan for repairing equipment in the bacteria room, and to Si Hyung Jin for designing and 3D-printing missing components to make this equipment functional again.

FEBRUARY: Kudos to... the team that worked together to submit an NIH R01 proposal: Reid Akana (co-lead writer, experimental design, preliminary data), Michael Porter (co-lead writer, experimental design, preliminary data), Anna Romano (writing assistance, literature, and preliminary data), Alex Viloria Winnett (literature and preliminary data), Natalie Wu-Woods (framing, writing assistance, proof-reading), Roey Lazarovits (preliminary data), and Chris Neimeth (assistance with framing and writing) .

JANUARY: Kudos to… Penny Pei for coordinating pipet calibration, and to Reid Akana, Alex Viloria Winnett, and Natalie Wu-Woods for helping to create a shared resource on the HPC for our common NGS workflows.

2023

DECEMBER: Kudos to… the lab's Biosafety Team (Ojas Pradhan and Matt Cooper), who were complimented by the Institute Biosafety Office for always responding promptly and thoroughly to requests.

NOVEMBER: Kudos to… the team that came together to submit an outstanding NIH U01 proposal: Natalie Wu-Woods (lead writer, experimental design, preliminary data, literature), Matt Cooper (lead writer, preliminary data), Ojas Pradhan (project manager, preliminary data), Anna Romano (preliminary data, framing, protocols/experimental design), Chris Neimeth (preliminary data, literature), Elaine Shen (preliminary data, literature), Matt Ratanapanichkich (preliminary data), Kathy Gopalkrishna (literature), Penny Pei (literature).

NOVEMBER: Kudos to... the team that came together to submit a proposal to Caltech's Merkin Institute for a diagnostic platform: Si Hyung Jin (lead; preliminary results, framing/writing/editing, figures), Harry Wang (preliminary data, literature, market analyses), and Minkyo Lee (literature).

OCTOBER: Kudos to… the team that came together to submit an NIH R21: Kathy Gopalkrishna (lead; ideation, framing/outlining, writing, literature, editing) and Ojas Pradhan (bibliography, editing, human-subjects forms).

OCTOBER: Kudos to… the team that came together to submit a Resnick Explorer proposal: Reid Akana (lead; writing)...

OCTOBER: Kudos to… the team that came together to submit a Jacobs Institute proposal: Matt Cooper (lead; outlining/writing, preliminary data)...

OCTOBER: Kudos to… the team that came together to submit an outstanding NIH R01 proposal: Natalie Wu-Woods (writing, experimental design, preliminary data, data processing), Ojas Pradhan (outlining/writing, bibliography, experimental design, preliminary data), Chris Neimeth (outlining/writing, figures, experimental design, preliminary data, data processing), Kathy Gopalkrishna (literature, preliminary data), Matt Cooper (framing/editing), Anna Romano (literature, editing), Roey Lazarovits (figures), Michael Anne Bolene (literature).

JULY: Kudos to… Minkyo Lee, who was the lead student writer on a proposal to Caltech's Merkin Institute for a device aimed at improving access to global healthcare. He also contributed preliminary data, experimental design, and market analysis.

JUNE: Kudos to… Natalie Wu-Woods, who contributed sections to a collaborative R01 grant application with our collaborators at UCLA.

MAY: Kudos to… the team that came together to submit/present a pilot proposal to Caltech's Beckman Institute: Anna Romano (lead, writing/presentation and Ojas Pradhan (writing/editing).

MAY: Kudos to… the team that came together to submit a competitive DoD proposal on pCD with our University of Chicago collaborators: Natalie Wu-Woods (co-lead) and Ojas Pradhan (co-lead).

MAY: Kudos to… Matt Ratanapanichkich, who led the framing, writing, figures, and submission of a Keck Foundation proposal (and the external submission in NOV) for the bacterial scSPRITE work.

MAY: Kudos to... Michael Porter, who led the framing, writing, figures, and submission of a proposal to the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation.

APRIL: Kudos to... Si Hyung Jin, who led the framing, writing, figures, and submission of a Caltech RI2 device proposal.

APRIL: Kudos to… Matt Ratanapanichkich, who led the framing, writing, figures, and submission of a Caltech Rosen Center proposal for the pro-SPRITE work.

MARCH: Kudos to… Matt Ratanapanichkich, who led the framing, writing, figures, and submission of a Caltech Resnick Center proposal for the bacterial scSPRITE work.

FEB: Kudos to… the team that came together to submit an outstanding NIH R21 proposal (and its JULY resubmission with a perfect NIH score of 10!): Natalie Wu-Woods (co-lead, writing/editing, framing, figures, response to reviews in July resubmission), Ojas Pradhan (co-lead, writing/editing, framing, figures), Kathy Gopalkrishna (response to reviews in July resubmission).

FEB: Kudos to… the team that came together to submit an outstanding NIH R21 proposal on the B-scSPRITE work: Matt Ratanapanichkich (lead; framing, writing, figures), Roey Lazarovits (literature review), Anna Romano (writing, literature).