Events

June 2024. Raymond, Karen and Raymond's family all attend the official UCSC graduation, in person finally!

 May 2024.  Raymond successfully defends his thesis and we all celebrate,

June 2024. METX end of year celebration--honoring our graduate students and our first three Microbiology BS students! 

Dec 2023.  Karen, Angela and Yazzy travel to Germany to attend a Helicobacter meeting, during the biggest early snow storm ever! The conference was great as were the Xmas markets!

  Fall. 2023. Christian rotates in the lab, working with Xiaolin. Here he is tossing a frisbee at the annual METX welcome with team frisbee golf at the UCSC greenhouse.

Sept. 2023. Aaron defends his PhD thesis! Congrats Dr. Clarke

August 2023. Lab whale watching trip--one whale, named Sparkles Whaley Whale by one of our group, and many dolphins. 

May 2023. METX students get to share their science every year! Here's Raymond, Lizett and Bao ready to present in May 2023. 

June 2023. Angela passes her qualifing exam after working hard and learning a ton! Her project on lactate-regulated transcription will be so cool!

June 2023. Karen at the ASM Session discussing how to craft a minireview, with some of the new PIs chosen by Infection and Immunity to highlight their research areas with mini reviews.  See them here!

February 2023. Snow! What a winter, so much rain and even snow on campus right outside the Biomed Building! 

December 2022. The METX winter gathering, small at off campus to respect the grad strike

December 2022. Christina gets her PhD!  Celebration time!

September 2022. Angela presents her work at the UCSC PBSE annual Fall Welcomd and kick off, with colleague Yazzy. 

September 2022. Raymond presenting his poster in a Covid safe style at  the Sensory Transduction in Microorganisms Gordon Research Conference that happened in (finally) in Sept. 2022, Ventura CA

June  2022. Dr. Shuai Hu gets his PhD in Microbiology and Environmental Toxicology, 2022. Woohoo!

May  2022. Xiaolin presents his research at the UCSC Postdoc Symposum, 2022

June 2022. The Ottemann lab, just outside our building. New members Sydney and Angela! Missing are Aaron, Raymond and Arturo, we'll need to try again! But we do have a stand in guest, can you spot them?

August 2021. The post defense gathering for Kevin's PhD defense. Clearly blue shirts are the PhD uniform.

December 2021. Celebration party to honor Frida's MS , Xiaolin's PhD. and Kevin's  PhD. Shown are Xiaolin, Karen, Frida, Oscar, Shuai, Yazzy, Kevin and Sydney.

December 2021. METX Winter Party 2021, Covid-style. 

Bo (from the Patnode Lab), Raymond and Xiaolin

December 2021. METX Winter Party, 2021. A Covid safe department 

December 2021. Not only did Kevin get a PhD, he also got a super cute dog who likes cuddles from Chrisinta. 

July  2020. Our first in person gathering after March 2020, in a park for sandwiches and ice cream. 

September 2019. Ottemann Lab reunion: 20 years 

June 2019. The Ottemann lab on the steps of our building

September 2019. Cande lands a high quality frisbee golf shoot at the Fall Welcome BBQ 2019


The commemorative vodka shots

June 2019. Pyloripalooza gathering to share the love of H. pylori and honor one of our leaders, Jay Solnick.

June 2019. On the way to Pyloripalooza, Mt. Shasta

June 2019. Road trip, driving to 2019 Pyloripalooza meeting