Veronica G Contreras

MS in Metallurgy and Materials Engineering at @UTEP ⛏️| DESTINATION Lab 🥼🔬| Raytheon Technologies Intern ‘22/‘23

[Krisell Contreras @krisellcont]

I am beyond grateful and excited to announce that I am officially a #Prep1Athlete ! Thank you so much for this amazing opportunity and I am blessed and ready to begin my recruiting journey!🤍📣
@Prep1USA @Prep1Athletes @RealJesseTovar

[Poon Lab @ UTEP @ThePoonLab]

New Fall 2024 @ThePoonLab group photo just dropped! We've grown quite a bit since last year, officially introducing our new (and some returning) lab members in this thread! 👨‍🔬👩‍🔬🧑‍🔬

[Veronica G Contreras @vgcontr23]

I think hikes are becoming my favorite Cali thing 🌊
📍Torrey Pines State Natural Park

[Veronica G Contreras @vgcontr23]

I have to say that my first two weeks of becoming a real adult have not been that bad ✨ my apartment is 85% done, I love going to work, and I have started to meal prep and wake up early again 😣😴 next step: getting my california driver’s license 👀

[Wilson Poon @wilsonpoon]

Super proud of @ThePoonLab undergrad COURI SURPASS students Melissa and Estefania for presenting their summer research work on LNP high-throughput synthesis and screening at the COURI Symposium this morning! #proudPI #newPI 👩‍🔬⚗️🧪🧬

[Veronica G Contreras @vgcontr23]

MS in Metallurgy and Materials Engineering ⛏️🤍

[Veronica G Contreras @vgcontr23]

Thank you Dr. Poon! All possible thanks to your support!!

[Wilson Poon @wilsonpoon]

How it started vs. how it ended. Congrats @vgcontr23 on your MS graduation from @ThePoonLab! 🎓💐🥳🍾

[Poon Lab @ UTEP @ThePoonLab]

Congratulations to our DESTINATION lab undergrad and graduate students for receiving research awards at last night's MMBME Annual Department Banquet! 🏆👏🏻🎉👨‍🔬👩‍🔬 #newPI

[Veronica G Contreras @vgcontr23]

Thank you to everyone who attended my Thesis defense today! I feel so grateful 🫶🏼🥳

[Wilson Poon @wilsonpoon]

Huge congratulations to @vgcontr23 for successfully defending her MS thesis today! 👩‍🎓⚗️🧫🔬 She will be the first MS graduate of @ThePoonLab and I'm so proud of her hard work and accomplishments! 🥳🎉🍾👏🏻

[Veronica G Contreras @vgcontr23]

Last week of school means crunch time! Is this what they mean with work and life balance? #gradstudent @ThePoonLab

[Veronica G Contreras @vgcontr23]

Tulips? yes, a healthy sleeping schedule? maybe…

[Veronica G Contreras @vgcontr23]

Woohooo 🥳 HBD Dr. Poon!!

Mood: when all you asked for your birthday was a completed thesis from your MS student and its not done

[Wilson Poon @wilsonpoon]

Very thankful for and appreciative of my students for organizing birthday cake and dinner for me this week! I love working with them in @ThePoonLab 🥰🎂🎁🍕

[Veronica G Contreras @vgcontr23]

Great time learning and making our own programs for the machine use! ⛏️👏🏼

[Poon Lab @ UTEP @ThePoonLab]

Huge thanks to Anurag from @opentrons for installing the Flex system in our lab yesterday! 🤖🧪🧬 Our students really enjoyed and benefited from the scripting seminar and hands-on demo! 👨🏻‍💻👨🏻‍🔧👨🏻‍🔬 We are very excited to automate all our lab workflows! 🤩💪🏻🚀 #newPI #LabAutomation

[Veronica G Contreras @vgcontr23]

🥼Making cartoons of my labmates is my passion 🌟 @ThePoonLab #MMBME

[Poon Lab @ UTEP @ThePoonLab]

We officially have a lab logo and holographic stickers! 🌈⚗️🔬👨🏻‍🔬 Many thanks to @vgcontr23 & Alejandra for helping with the design! 🤩🤩🤩

[Veronica G Contreras @vgcontr23]

🐼🥠 Be part of The Society for Biomaterials fundraiser!! Nationwide for online orders! #UTEPsfb #fundraiser

[Poon Lab @ UTEP @ThePoonLab]

A belated happy birthday to our undergrad RA Angel! 🥳🎉🎂🎊 Today's cake flavor is the crowd favorite - cheesecake vasco with mixed fruits! 🍓🥝🍑🫐

[Poon Lab @ UTEP @ThePoonLab]

Check out our 🆕 review paper out in @ACS_ABM @ACS_AMI on nucleic acid delivery nanotechnologies for in vivo cell programming! ⚗️💉🧬😷 Great effort by our undergrad RA @HanniaBalcorta, MME MS student @vgcontr23, & BME PhD student @Deepalibisht09! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 https://t.co/Bl0q7lbmlh

[Hannia Balcorta @HanniaBalcorta]

🧬 Excited to share our latest paper published in ACS Applied Bio Materials: "Nucleic Acid Delivery Nanotechnologies for In Vivo Cell Programming." Led by: @wilsonpoon @ThePoonLab https://t.co/PNHiDccLtP #ScienceTwitter #biomaterials

[Veronica G Contreras @vgcontr23]

So happy to share the first general meeting of the semester was a success! @BinataJoddar #societyforbiomaterials