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Consultaion Letter by Dr. Ping (Click to View Full Text) Read more →
One good news from Sharon Huang, a summer intern 2009 of our lab. Read more →
It’s a fertile lab. Read more →
Sarah Scruggs was awarded the NIH NRSA Fellowship, and promptly started writing another few grants to pass the time between experiments. Read more →
Rachna and Glen defended their dissertations, yet somehow didn’t get enough of their labs and decided to stay indefinitely. Read more →
Christopher Lotz was awarded the AHA Postdoctoral Fellowship allowing him to eat and pay rent. Read more →
Dr. Sarah Scruggs officially enters the halls of MRL and the Ping lab, immediately whipping the lab into fierce shape for the grant season. Read more →
Alexander the Great, Eisenhower, Napoleon, some dude from Germany… every great general has a great command post. Construction on Dr. Ping’s office is finally completed and between the sofas and the Feng Shui, meetings are almost pleasurable. Read more →
Julia Wang gives birth to her second child, who is already proficient in sample handling and LTQ maintenance. Read more →
Rachna Ujwal takes it down to 2.3° by publishing the best structure for VDAC1 ever. Party in the front. Party in the back. Read more →
Rachna wins travel award at ISHR 2008 Cincinnati. Read more →
This is going to a record in the book. Ping lab was the first in academic research to finish all the ETD reagent pre-installed with the instument. Read more →
In a nod to the European Union Phil Doran and Isabella Ferando have agreed to participate in the lab. Read more →
Jun Zhang makes no notice of yet another outstanding publication in Proteomics of the functional cardiac mitochondria.
Did you bring your toothbrush? Everyone participates in the Ping Lab Spring Clean! If your name happens to be Julia Wang, bing a new pair of pants too. FYI, no pant is bleach-proof. No cabinet, freezer or sample box was safe. *Some samples still missing. Read more →
Glen Young wins the AHA’s Joel Drilling’s award for recognition of his excellence in drilling. Read more →
Aldrin Gomes proves he is the biggest in the lab (by several inches) as he accepts a prestigious professorship at the University of California Davis. Revenues at the local Costco and 99 cent store are down 40% for the year. Read more →
Heartbreaker for David. After registered 6 years in American Heart Association, he once again renewed his trainee membership. Read more →
Dr. Ning Deng joined the Force. With a doctoral degree in computer science, he made Nobel as the second choice IT consultant. This is a critical recruit. Read more →
“National Lampoon’s Korean Vacation!” In a sequel to last years blockbuster, the Ping lab finds itself in Seoul Korea for the 6 th Aannual HUPO World Congress. This time hilarity ensues as the lab encounters friends and foes on their quest to elect Dr. Ping to Secretary General of the Executive Committee. Read more →
Just to mess with Glen Young, the American Heart Association awards him a predoctoral fellowship. Read more →
Oliver Drews, in a feat that history will remember, publishes an article in Molecular & Cellular Proteomics vol 6 issue 11. Bravo. Read more →
After many months of separation and with the renovated lab operational, the various members of the lab are reincarcerated with new equipment and new seating arrangements.
To accommodate the 2006 surge of personnel, the lab undergoes some remodeling when an accident puts most of the lab under several inches of water and coolant. Most of the lab members survived. By the way, that day is Nobel’s birthday. Read more →
In late October, all Ping lab will attend 5 th HUPO World Congress in Long Beach. If you are planning to visit and play ‘trick and trade’ during that time, please check Long Beach Convention Center, followed by Disney Land, Knott’s Berry Farm, the Beaches, in that order. Read more →
Ping lab got freshmen, Daniel Li, Julia Wang, Ding Wang, Ning Deng, Myong Koag and Haojie Lu. Welcome to the lab. Read more →
Two companion papers of Ping lab were published on Circulation Research vol 99 issue 4. Read more →
David was invited to talk on 2006 American Heart Association summer meeting. Read more →
Warning! Warning!! Protein purification can be hazardous. Sean developed pneumonia after spending few hours in cold room. Cool guys and hot girls, whoever you are, please take caution and maintain your core temperature. Read more →
Aldrin got Grant-in-aid and Oliver got post-doctoral fellowship both from American Heart Association. Read more →
Xiaohai’s daughter performed a tranditional dance in Chinese New Year Ceremony at Bradley International Center. She made cover-girl of Daily Bruin. I understand that lots of alumni did not get to read Daily Bruin that day. Don’t blame yourself. You have no chance. Xiaohai collected all copies on campus. Read more →
Ping lab Xmas party 2005 was held at one of the most famous attractions in LA, the Getty Center. This is also farewell party for Dr. Manuel, who has been with us for 8 weeks. Read more →
Dr. Xiaohai Li, proteomic expert from China Science Acadmy, joined our functional proteomics team. Shortly after his arrival, his favorite toy of the whole world, “LTQ” AKA “Liberation To Questions” came along. Read more →
Dr. Ping received a letter from former summer intern student – Aaron Huang. It reads “Hi Dr. Ping, I just wanted to say ‘thanks’ for giving me the opportunity to participate in research in your laboratory this summer. Read more →
Dawn, the Don of the lab fairs, is sick and she is turning into a vegetable. There is green viscous fluid running out of the orifices in her head. Read more →
The biggest event during this period of time is grant application. As a qualified member of Ping lab, you have to understand the “Ping language” at this particular moment. “Whenever you are ready”=“Move your butt here right now”. “It is so tiring”=“You need to increase alert level”. “Stay cool”=“You had too much coffee”. Read more →
Nobody knows whether GW Bush will win election 2004. There is one thing for sure though. GW Wang has won his. So did Jun. Congratulations guys. Read more →
CVRL (Cardiovascular Research Laboratory) Happy Hour for Grad-student and Post-docs hosted by Dr. Peipei Ping. Lots of people came. It was fun. People are drinking, talking and enchanging protocols (including experimental and hang-out protocols. Read more →
Jun came all the way here from Kentucky. She is really an amazing person. She can grow tons of E.Coli in a week, 10 WB in a day, one week’s foods in a hour. I don’t know why Dr. Ping like her so much. I have my reasons. Read more →
Mr. Will Foster has joined our team. Here is a brief introduction. He is male, single, straight, 20 something, handsome guy, which is available. Read more →
Warning! Alert!! Attention!!! Since Dr. Cao arrived, the mutation rate of the lab has increased at least ten folds. Please do watch out your genome and pass this message to your cells. Stay away of the PCR equipment and agarose of all kinds. Read more →
Jun and Dr. Cao, both went through security check of UCLA. Either one of them was required to give finger-print. It has been proven that both of them are nastiness-free. By the way, two set of gloves were reported missing by the end of day. Linda is still looking at the inventory. Read more →
Jun and Dr. Cao, two founder of the lab, came to Los Angeles. It is such a happy reunion! It is really a time of thanks giving in the eve of thanksgiving ceremony. Read more →
Crew members; Tom, Beniam and Nobel; visited Dr. Edmondson’s lab at Little Rock, Arkansas. Dr. Edmondson and Richard are esteemed long-time colaborators of our lab. They were very nice and helpful. The hardwares in their lab were quite impressive, too. This journey was truly beneficial for us. Read more →
David sang a Chinese song in the lab. The aftermath is tremendous. Linda was checking whether the radio is broken. The comment from Dr. Wang is “Your Chinese is a little bit weird.” However, David is still convinced that his future is on-stage. Read more →
Dr. Ju Chen from UCSD gave a talk regarding Cypher and cardiomyopathy. The talk is so popular. Lots of people came. Read more →
A Flu virus is wandering in the lab. The first host has been identified. Several victims have been infected. Read more →
Dr. Macllelan gave a fabulous talk on p53. Meanwhile, the pizzas provided by Dr. Macllelan were also delicious. Read more →
The legendary membrane of our lab, Dr. Jun Zhang, defenced her thesis. As the most senior member, she is loved by all other lab membranes. Read more →
The cold room has been established. Read more →
On the last day of the AHA conference meeting in Snowbird, Utah. Dr. Ping gave a fabulous talk and four lab members and one former lab member presented their posters. The posters were big-hits. Dr. Wang, Dr. Lu, Dr. Qiao and former member Dr. Baines won the travel awards. Congratulations. Read more →
The laboratory will present four oral abstracts at this year’s Sessions. Read more →
The PKC lab has moved from Univ. of Louisville to UCLA. Thanks all the people of Univ. of Louisville for being so supportive and thanks for all the people in UCLA for being so nice to the new-comers. Read more →
Jeff gave a great presentation today. Read more →
Joe constructed 4 plasmids already. Read more →
Three undergraduate students became members of our research team. They made up into “new blood” to keep “the organism” from ischemia. Read more →
Dr. Wang and Tom went over to L.A. as pioneers to settle down a new home for this family. Read more →
Dr. Wang becomes trapped in the HSC Tower elevator. Physical Plant was called and responded to safely remove the somewhat shaken but relatively unharmed Dr. Wang from the elevator. Read more →
Several lab members enjoyed the outdoor picnic of the Dept of Physiology in a thunderstorm. Read more →
Tom Vondriska successfully defended his dissertation today.
We have a new member joining the lab, Joe Qiao. He comes from the Basic Medical Sciences Dept at Purdue and brings to the lab a considerable background in molecular biology. Read more →