Lab Fun

We are very dedicated, serious scientists. Here is evidence. It is scientific.

Lab photos

Lab Christmas party 2023 (Left: Kenya, Sunhee, Denise, Alejandra, Bryanna, Chitkale, Jane, Jacqueline)

Fun in lab (Left: Kenya, Bryanna, Jacqueline, Jane, Chitkale, Alejandra, Sunhee) 2023

2024 Good-bye lunch for Jacqueline (Left: Jane, Jacqueline, Kenya, Sunhee, Denise, Alejandra, Chitkale, Bryanna). Good-luck in medical school!

Lab photo with 2024 SURISKD student, Rain (Left: Rain, Alejandra, Sunhee, Bryanna, Denise, Kenya, Jane, Chitkale)

2023 Lab holiday photo (Left: Denise, Bryanna, Kenya, Sunhee, Jacqueline, Alejandra)

Lab Celebrations & Fun

Jane holding a kidney shaped sugar cookie

Jane holding a kidney cookie she made for National Kidney Month!

2021 Quinten's send-off before starting his Master's degree at UTSW.

2021 Q's Send-off lab photo

Reception celebration at Bryanna's wedding

Some of the Marciano and Friedman labs at Bryanna's bridal shower

Jane's birthday 2024

Kenya, Jane, and Jacqueline at the 2024 Solar Eclipse watch party

Kenya, Sunhee, and Jane at the 2024 Solar Eclipse watch party

Maddie, 2023 SURISKD, last day in lab

Chitkale baby shower 2023

Holiday Festivities

2022 lab holiday party - Bryanna, Jane, & Denise

2022 lab holiday party - Denise & Chitkale

2022 lab holiday party - Jacqueline, Kenya, and Omar

2022 lab holiday party - Alex, Jane, & Bryanna

2022 lab holiday party - Ondine Cleaver, Denise, Tom Carroll

2023 Holiday party at Denise's house

Silly lab photo at Chitkale's house 2023

Kenya playing a reindeer toss game 2023

Alejandra playing a reindeer toss game 2023

Jane playing a reindeer toss game 2023

Thesis Defenses

2022 Showing our true personalities at Isabel's defense!

2022 Isabel popping champagne after successfully defending her thesis!

2022 Isabel's Defense Lab Photo

2022 Isabel defending her thesis

2022 - Isabel with her thesis Committee

Denise and Isabel at Isabel's Ph.D. commencement

Conferences & presentations

2022 - Isabel and Denise at a conference

2022 - Jane presenting her poster at the ASCB conference

Past Lab Member Fun!

Quinton has a goatee and is making duck lips while wearing an elf hat and a holiday-light necklace

Quinten Patterson, Lab Elf (2018)

Door decorated with lights and silly photos of lab members

Deck the door with lights and photos, fa la^8. (2018)

Lab member with santa hat and paper mustache

Hao Liu in holiday disguise (2018)

Holiday fun, 2018

Our entry for the 2018 Halloween carving contest

Lab members and pumpkin carved with kidneys

The culprits responsible for the Kidney Pumpkin: (L-R) Jun Tsunezumi, Isabel Lopez-Garcia, Chitkale Hiremath and Quinten Patterson

Lab members 2012: Susan Zimmerman, Denise Marciano, and Zhufeng Yang

Lab, 2014: (L-R) Zhufeng Yang, Lei Gao, Denise Marciano, and Susan Zimmerman

L-R: Jun Tsunezumi PhD; Isabel Lopez-Garcia, MSTP student; Denise Marciano, MD, PhD. Hao Liu, MD; Quinten Patterson; Chitkale Hiremath, MS.