Busy day in the lab. All 7 students plus Dr. Heisler were trying to get new results this afternoon.
Category Archives: Lab Members
Welcome to the lab Elias and Morgan!
Today, the lab added 2 new prospective graduate students in Elias and Morgan.
Elias comes to us from Grove City College where he studied biochemistry and was a First Team All-PAC swimmer. He will explore the crossover between organic and inorganic chemistry and biochemistry to address the need for novel antibiotics.
Morgan is a graduate of Bucknell University, where she focused on cell biology and biochemistry. She will utilize this background to better understand how Listeria is able to continue to be a worldwide foodborne pathogen with recent outbreaks in the United States and Canada!
WELCOME to the team!
URP Symposium
The summer research season has come to a bittersweet ending. As the last activity of the summer, the undergraduates presented all of their hard work at the Regional Undergraduate Research Symposium here at Duquesne University. 
Lab Dinner to Celebrate the accomplishments of everyone this summer!
Sunday night, we came together as a lab (with families too) and ventured downtown for a lab dinner to celebrate everything that we accomplished this summer. It was a great time at Alta Via and will become a Heisler Lab tradition!
P.S. Why do PI’s always look so awkward in photos?
Picklesburgh Lab Outing!
The Summer Crew!
Not sure I can articulate how thankful I am for the craziness that this summer has been in the lab, but this team shows up every morning happy, excited to try and learn, and give it their best! So ladies, thank you for everything you do and here is to hoping a lot of success comes from this for the lab, but more important each of you in your future endeavors.
Left to right: Ellen, Adisyn, Erin, Trista, Zoe, and Megan
Heisler Lab Growing this Summer!
This summer, the Heisler lab welcome FIVE new students to the lab!
Erin (Carlow University) and Ellen (University of Arizona) come to us as part of the Pain and Neurodegenerative Undergraduate Research Experience (PURE and NURE) program here at Duquesne.
Zoe (Bryn Mawr) come to us as part of the The Integrated Computational and Experimental Chemistry NSF-REU Program here at Duquesne. Zoe will be co-advised with Dr. Rita Mihailescu (Duquesne).
Adisyn and Trista (Duquesne University) were selected as part of the Summer Departmental Undergraduate Research Program (URP).
Megan will be back in the lab this summer as well as part of URP.
Here is to a busy but hopefully very successful summer!
Elizabeth Earns an Honorable Mention Poster at the ACS Symposium
Congrats to Elizabeth on her honorable mention at the 37th annual ACS Regional Symposium held here at Duquesne.
Come to URSS to see what our Website Reviewer has been up to in the Cascio Lab
Elizabeth will be presenting at the Undergraduate Research and Scholarship Symposium here at Duquesne next week! Check out a summary of her work:
Welcome Cate!
The Heisler lab is excited to welcome Cate to this lab this spring. Cate is a passionate biology student who is eager to gain hands-on research experience. Cate will be focused on understanding how membrane cholesterol levels regulate bacterial pathogenesis of a variety of human pathogens.
Welcome Declan!
A big welcome is needed to our newest lab member, Declan. He is an freshman Biochemistry major with a personal interest in science and law and one day hopes to pursue both a PhD and JD to do patent law. While he will not have a defined project this semester, he will be exposed to everything the Heisler lab can do and we look forward to seeing evolve over the next three years.
Welcome Brianne!
The Heisler lab is excited to be add a new student this upcoming spring, Brianne. She is an undergraduate Biochemistry major interested in getting hands-on experience in a research lab.
Welcome Ryan!
The Heisler lab will be adding a new student this upcoming spring, Ryan. He is an undergraduate Biochemistry major with a personal interest in immunology and the immune response. He will join the project focused a family of uncharacterized proteins from Listeria!
Welcome Anastasia!
The Heisler lab added a new student today, Anastasia. She is a Master’s student in Healthcare Ethics interested in biochemistry and the “challenge that is critically thinking and problem solving”. Her work will be focused a family of uncharacterized proteins from Listeria and helping put the Heisler lab spaces together!
Welcome Megan!
The Heisler lab is excited to welcome our first undergraduate, Megan, to the lab. She is a sophomore biochemistry major who “thoroughly enjoys chemistry and biology” and is interested medicine. Her first project in the lab will be focused on bioinformatic analyses of pathogenic bacteria in addition to helping put the Heisler lab spaces together!