Year 2

The Rajakovich Lab is NIH funded!! We were awarded an R35 MIRA grant to study microbial metalloenzymes in microaerobic host environments. Thank you to the NIGMS for supporting our research over the next five years!

Congratulations to graduate student, Paige Gannon, on passing her General Exam and becoming the lab’s first Ph.D. candidate!!

Welcome to incoming first-year graduate student Pedro Vasquez for a summer rotation! Thank you to the Department of Chemistry for supporting Pedro with a Summer Research Acceleration Fellowship.

We are excited to have three new undergraduate student researchers join our group this summer - Dylan Abramson, Avery Martin, and Tanner Olson - welcome! Big thanks to the Department of Chemistry for supporting Dylan’s research this summer through a Chem Starter Undergraduate Research Scholarship.

Summer 2023

Congratulations to Hayden on graduating with his B.S. in Biochemistry from the UW this year! We are excited to see the great things you will accomplish in the UW Chemistry Ph.D. program!

Undergraduate student Hayden Henry presented his research on the role of the human gut microbiota in neurotransmitter biosynthesis and depression at the UW Undergraduate Research Symposium. Well done!

Congratulations to undergraduate researcher Lia Barrow on receiving a Department of Chemistry Rising Star Undergraduate Research Scholarship to continue her work in our lab over the summer!

Spring 2023

Winter 2023

The group attended their first Pacific Northwest Chemical Biology Volcano Conference. Science and snowshoeing on Mount Rainier - what could be better?

The lab welcomes two new first-year graduate students, Haoxian Xu and Natalie Rutz!

Graduate student Rachelle Stowell joins the team to learn some metallobiochemistry while honing her skills as a spectroscopist in co-advisor Stefan Stoll’s group.

Congratulations to undergraduate student Hayden Henry on being awarded a competitive Mary Gates Research Scholarship!