Fuglestad Lab

The Fuglestad Lab @ Virginia Commonwealth University, Department of Chemistry

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Congratulations to our newest PhD, Dr. Walters (as of 4/20)!! Good luck in your next chapter as a post-doc!

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Congratulations to Kelly and Mackenzie for passing their candidacy proposals this semester! They have some exciting work planned and can’t wait to show you soon!

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With the semester officially wrapped up, we hope that everyone’s break and new year brings some much needed relaxation and joy! ✨

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Congrats to everyone for their awesome presentations! We can’t wait for #SERMACS26!!

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@VCUChemistry We loved Monsters Unchained and pretty much every other coaster! And toothless was stuck in the air when we tried to say hi (our talks went well too :))

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We enjoyed the day at Epic Universe in Orlando! Check out Kelly and Mackenzie’s presentations in the biochem section tomorrow morning and Sara’s presentation in the women in stem section! Rachel’s poster will be Tuesday morning at #SERMACS2025

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Please join us in welcoming Neil to the lab! He is a 1st year PhD student from Richmond!! When not in the lab (and he has been in several), you can find him camping in the mountains!

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Thanks to everyone who stopped by to chat about our graduate research at the VCU @VCUChemistry department poster session!!

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Awesome presentations by Rachel, Sara, and Aaron at ACS Fall 2025!!

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Congratulations to Sara for receiving the 2025 Anna Louise Hoffman Award from Iota Sigma Pi, the national honor society for women in chemistry! This award is given to one graduate student per year for outstanding achievement in research!

https://t.co/PihbmuqjpI

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Congratulations to Sara for being a Graduate Best Poster Winner at PS39! 🎉🎉

Congrats to all the winners and thanks to the Protein Society for a great conference!!

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Check out our latest publication! Congrats Aaron, Abdul, and George!!

Broad PFAS Binding with Fatty Acid Binding Protein 4 Is Enabled by Variable Binding Modes | JACS Au https://t.co/s1EnYsKW7i

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Congratulations to our lab’s two newest PhD candidates, Rachel and Jake! They both recently passed their candidacy proposals and we are excited to see them continue pursuing their research!!

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Check out our new paper investigating biologically inspired reverse micelles for protein membrane interaction!

Congrats to Rachel and Allyson for their first publication in the group!!
https://t.co/JPFoEBWPMv

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Big news!! Dr. Fuglestad was recently awarded the 2024 Young Investigator Award from Eli Lilly and Company!!

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As the semester wraps up, we just wanted to share our most recent group photo! Happy Holidays!

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Meet Mackenzie! Mackenzie is a 1st year Chemical Biology PhD student who is joining our lab to further our fragment based drug discovery initiative! In her free time, she loves to play golf and pickleball and watch New Girl!

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Meet Kelly! Kelly is a 1st year Chemistry PhD student who joined our lab this semester! She is beginning work on exploring DNA and protein binding! Kelly graduated from VCU undergrad in three years and her favorite place is the beach! Welcome to the lab!

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Want to learn more about reverse micelles and using them to investigate membrane proteins?? Check out our new review!

https://t.co/A7N2lmFW6U

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Thank you to #SERMACS2024 for allowing Sara to present her research titled “Elucidating the membrane lipid interactions with GPx4”!!