Media Coverage, Publication Highlights and Other Buzz

• 📃 Edem’s collaborative paper with Moutsopoulos lab is published in Immunity. Congratulations Tae Sung!

• 👨‍🏫 Edem wins inaugural University at Albany Biology and Chemistry Graduate Pathway for Scholars Award

• ✈️ Edem and Alex L. both receive ASM Microbe Student and Postdoc travel awards to present their work at ASM Microbe 2023 in Houston!

• 📃 Ruogu’s paper “Unmixing Biological Fluorescence Image Data with Sparse and Low-Rank Poisson Regression” is published in Bioinformatics!

• 🏛 Really nice write up of our most recent NIH grant: Studying the shape of gum disease

• 🎓 Khalid and Ethan successfully defend their Master’s theses!

• 🏅Ibirayo wins Best Oral Presentation at 2021 CSTEP Capital Region Virtual Student Conference!

• 🧬 Alex wins 2021 Excellence in Research Award from the SUNY Albany RNA Institute

• 🏆 Valm Lab PhD Student, Emmanuel Edem Adade wins the Scientista Award for Best Flash Talk at the 2021 UAlbany Life Sciences Research Symposium!

• 🧪 Alex receives 2020 3M Non-tenured Faculty Award

• Khalid Al Lakhen presents Flash Talk at the 2020 Virtual Boston Bacterial Meeting

• 🥇 Valm Lab Undergraduate researcher, Ana Altamirano wins best poster at the 2019 UAlbany Biological Sciences Undergraduate Research Symposium!

• 🏳️‍🌈 Alex featured in 500 Queer Scientists and ASCB Pride month article: moving from diversity to inclusion

• 💃 "An intracellular dance visualized." by S.H. Shim. 2017 Nature 546: 39–40.

• 📺 "This is the most complex video of a cell ever made." by R.F. Mandelbaum. 2017 Gizmodo

• 🏆 2017 Nikon Small World in Motion Contest; Honorable Mention

• 🎥 "Cells on camera" by E. Rijper. 2017 Scholastic ScienceWorld

• 🔬 "Imaging the organelle interactome" by Valm, Cohen and Lippincott Schwartz. Cell Systems 4: 576-578.

• 📐 " Analyzing spatiotemporal coordination among organelles " 2017 Bitplane.com

• 🎙 "Research reveals yeasty beasts living on our skin" by Rob Stein. 2013 NPR.

• "The skin of our teeth!" 2011 ASCB Annual Meeting Press Conference via Youtube

• "Deconstructing dental plaque: Imaging method could show how dozens of bacteria interact in the mouth." by Monya Baker. 2011 Nature

• 🏆 ATCC Microbiology Photo Contest 2012 Best in Show

• 🍬 “How many sweets in the jar?” by A. Jermy. April 2011 Nat. Rev. Microbiol. 9:226.

• 🔬 “Identifying order in a plaque.” by M. Baker. April 2011 Nat. Meth. 8:288.

• 💡 “In This Issue: Combinatorial labeling illuminates microbial communities.” 15 March 2011. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 108:3823.