On 6/6/2023, Dr. Eric Yik successfully defended his thesis on the engineering of novel polymerases and his contributions in the development of technology for the discovery of threose nucleic acid aptamers.
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Publications
Complete journal publication list from 1997 to present.
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Dr. Eric Yik – Successful thesis defense
Undergraduate students elected as part of the SURP program
Congratulations to Saalar, Katherine, Ethan, and Pranav, who have been selected as UROP Fellows for Summer 2023 as part of the SURP program! They will continue to work on the Chaput lab during the summer of 2023 as part of their undergraduate formation.
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Undergraduate students get awarded the UROP 2023 Distinguished Research Fellowship
Congratulations to Riley, Manuel, Joy, Jenny, Katherine and Kalvin! The Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP) Faculty Advisory Board has selected our undergraduate students as UROP Fellows for the 2022-2023 academic year.
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Graduate students receive the Vertex pharmaceuticals fellowship
Our graduate students Victoria Maola and Mohammad Hajjar got awarded the Vertex Pharmaceutical Fellowship. Congratulations on this well-deserved award!!
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Dr. John Chaput Receives the 2022-2023 Distinguished Mid-Career Faculty Award
Congratulations to our very own PI, Dr. Chaput on receiving this award from the UC Irvine Academic Senate.
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Dr. Kefan Yang – Successful Thesis Defense
A huge congratulations to Dr. Kefan Yang who successfully defended his PhD thesis on Friday, 01/20/2023!
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Adriana Lozoya – Chu Family Foundation award
Congratulations to our postdoc Adriana for receiving one of the Chu Family Foundation awards at the IRT 3NA 2022! Thanks to this fellowship she will be visiting the Andi Marx Lab in the south of Germany next week.
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Daniel Schuder – Graduate Assistance in Areas of National Need (GAANN) Fellowship awardee
Congratulations to our grad student Daniel on being awarded the GAANN fellowship by the U.S. Department of Education!
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Esau Medina – Vertex Scholarship awardee
Congratulations to our PhD student, Esau Medina, on being awarded the Vertex Scholarship earlier this year! Your hard work and dedication does not go unnoticed.
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Kefan Yang – UCI Beall Applied Innovation’s (BAI) Graduate Innovation Fellowship
Congratulations to our grad student, Kefan Yang, who got awarded the UCI Beall Applied Innovation’s (BAI) Graduate Innovation Fellowship!
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