A mid-summer double celebration was in order for the Shafaat Group! Major congrats to Kevin E. Rivera Cruz for receiving the prestigious UC President’s and NSF ASCEND Postdoctoral Fellowships! We are so honored and excited to have you join the group! Thank you, Professor Annie Chantarojsiri, for your great talk on C-H oxidation using dimetal complexes. We hope to see you again soon!
Another amazing Metallocofactors GRC for the Shafaat Group current members and alumni!
Congratulations, Alina Yerbulekova (Ph.D., 2024), on a fantastic thesis defense! You have left an impressive legacy of research and mentorship in the lab. We will miss you!
What’s the best way to celebrate the end of the quarter and start of summer? A sunny beach day!
It’s Alina’s last group meeting and there’s lots to celebrate! Congratulations Dr. Yerbulekova for a fantastic defense and her invaluable contributions to the lab and research. We are also very excited to have a new official Ph.D. candidate in the lab, Henry!
Starting off 2024 with good food and great company!
2023
In true Southern CA style, Happy Holidays from the Shafaat Group!
A beautiful sunset to conclude 2023.
Congratulations to Luke Lewis (Ph.D., 2023) on his fantastic thesis defense! We miss you in lab already.
Happy Halloween from the Shafaat Group! We celebrated with dinner and carving pumpkins. (Spot the chemistry pumpkins!)
Grateful to attend the SoCal Bioinorganic Conference at UC Irvine.
Group hike near Pacific Palisades, CA
Moving trucks arrived, now it’s time to get settled. Day 1 in LA!
The new lab ready for move-in
2022
Shafaat Group Photo 2022
2021
Shafaat Group Holiday Party 2021
Shafaat Group at OSU Sips 2021
Shafaat Group Photo 2021
2020
Group bonding on the water. A fun day of kayaking!
2019
The Shafaat Group celebrating the holidays in some (ugly Christmas sweater) style.
Congratulations on a fantastic presentation by College of Wooster undergraduate John Nugent.
A great poster presentation by College of Wooster undergraduate John Nugent. John participated in the Ohio 5-OUS SURE program Summer 2019 and worked with Sean on the rubredoxin project.
A fantastic thesis defense, Cami! Congratulations.
Hello from Lisbon, Portugal! Hannah, Regina and Sean participated the Hydrogenase conference.
Group dinner to celebrate the end of an era. Dr. Tasha, we will miss you and couldn’t be happier for you to start your next journey as a postdoctoral fellow in the Rosenzweig Lab.
Our last group dinner with Dr. Jeff! Tacos and margaritas to celebrate a wonderful colleague, excellent friend, and brilliant scientist, who somehow always seems to have Lady Luck on his side? You’ll definitely be missed, but best of luck at PSU!
