Our thanks to visiting researcher Alex Stoegbauer (Hess Lab at Universitat Regensburg) for sharing his fantastic progress during his time visiting our lab. We will miss you, and good luck on all your future science endeavors!
Our thanks to Madeline Ho (Hoffman Lab at Northwestern University) for sharing her incredible EPR graduate work. And no visit is complete without a group dinner!
We had a great group for the 2026 Metals in Biology Gordon Research Conference! Major congratulations to Hannah for chairing the conference! It is always wonderful to catch up with past lab members Riley Stein and Professor Anastasia Manesis, and collaborator Dr. Olaf Rudiger.
2025
We had a great time celebrating the holidays and Prof. Buettner wrapping up her sabbatical. We will miss you in lab this coming year!
Happy Holidays from the Shafaat Lab!
Congratulations, Aadhishre, on a fantastic presentation at the 2025 SoCal Bioinorganic Symposium!
Another fantastic year hosting “The Colors of Life” booth at UCLA’s Exploring Your Universe science fair. Major shoutout to our EYU team!
Halloween wouldn’t be complete without a group Minions picture.
And… the pumpkins! See if you can find the iron sulfur cluster.
Happy Halloween from the Shafaat Lab!
Congratulations, Henry, on a fantastic presentation at the Southern California Users of Magnets, 2025, meeting! Thanks to UC Irvine and the Biophysical Society for hosting.
Welcome Professor Kate Buettner, from Gettysburg College! A group dinner was in order to celebrate the start of Prof. Buettner’s sabbatical Fall 2025. We are so excited to have you in the lab!
We had an incredible time at the 21st International Conference on Biological Inorganic Chemistry 2025! We learned about cutting-edge advances in the field, shared updates on our own projects, and enjoyed a lunch with past and present Shafaat group members.
We had a wonderful time hosting Matthew Gaynes from the Christianson Lab! Thanks for a fantastic seminar discussing your research on Terpenoid cyclases.
Our outstanding undergrads, Megan, Isaiah, Ryan, and Sofia, presented at the UCLA Chemistry Undergraduate Research Symposium. Congratulations on fantastic posters and impressive science!
Thanks to Caltech for hosting this year’s 2025 SoCal Organometallics meeting.
Major shoutout to our outreach team for hosting our booth at the Willows Community School Science Fair! It’s always so much fun sharing science with local students and families, and you can never go wrong with natural pH indicator art and non-Newtonian fluid, “oobleck.” Our thanks to the Willows Community School for inviting us to participate.
In a true full-circle moment, we were thrilled to host former Shafaat Lab members, Dr. Anastasia Manesis and Riley Stein, for the week at UCLA! As always, no visit to Los Angeles is complete without a delicious lab dinner.
Congratulations to Sofia Ando for a fantastic rubredoxin poster presentation at the 2025 Koret UC LEADS Research and Leadership Symposium!
There’s no better way to start a new year than by a reunion with past lab members (Dr. Anastasia Manesis and Riley Moore) at the fantastic Metals in Biology Gordon Conference!
2024
Happy Holidays from the Shafaat Group! It wouldn’t be an LA holiday without a winter beach picture. Looking forward to a 2025 filled with exciting spectra, papers, and progress!
A celebration is in order! Congratulations to our newest Ph.D. candidate, Aadhishre! We cannot wait to see what you uncover about R2lox in the future!
Thank you, Henry, for a fantastic presentation at the SoCal Bioinorganic Conference!
Another year, another fantastic SoCal Bioinorganic Conference! Thank you UCSB for hosting. Special shoutout to Hannah’s inspiring keynote address and Henry’s great oral presentation.
It’s spooky season in the Shafaat Group, and no better way to celebrate than carving pumpkins
Happy Birthday Nari and Cassie! Wishing you a year of fun memories and exciting experiments!
Shafaat Group picture time with a twist: Dress in the colors of your protein. Can you guess who works with the same proteins?
Celebrating the conclusion of a productive summer of research with a beachfront dinner. Looking forward to building on summer’s momentum in the Fall quarter!
Congratulations on a fabulous thesis defense, Josephine Gan (Ph.D., 2024). We already miss your leadership in lab but are cheering you on as you start your next chemistry journey!
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!
