Summer 2026 Boon Group Party💃🏽💃🏽 A huge thank you to Dr. Boon for hosting our annual Summer lab party. It is great to connect outside of the lab and celebrate our hard work together.Grateful to work with a brilliant and supportive team of researchers. #LabLife #Research #TeamWork #AcademicCommunity

Congratulations to our very own Boon Lab student, Archana Sudevan on receiving the BIOL Division Travel Award! 🎉🎉🎉

ACS BIOL: Division of Biochemistry and Chemical Biology@acsbiol.bsky.social · last wk.

Congratulations to the BIOL Division Travel Awardees to #ACSFall2026! These 20 graduate students and postdocs will present their research in BIOL Division sessions at the ACS Fall meeting in Chicago later this month.

Another PhD success for the Boon Group! Congratulations to Yulong on successfully defending his PhD thesis yesterday. After years of hard work, dedication, and research, Yulong can officially be called Dr. Yulong Guo. 🥳🥳🥳🥳🎓 We are incredibly proud of you and Congratulations, Dr. Yulong Guo! 👏

A little late post but Congratulations to Dr. Withorn @withornjason.bsky.social on successfully earning his PhD! It has been a great pleasure watching you grow as a scientist over the years and we’re really proud of your accomplishments. The Boon Lab is really excited for your future endeavors!

Sunny skies mean we finally get to take our yearly Boon group photo!

The ICB&DD 19th Annual Symposium is happening right now at the Charles Wang Center, SBU! Feel free to stop by to listen the great line up of talks and also the amazing posters we have from our students @stonybrooku.bsky.social

Check out the latest preprint from our lab on the characterization of the Multikinase network in P. aeruginosa! Shout out to our students @withornjason.bsky.social, @ramcharankarishma.bsky.social, and many more on their hard work and tremendous efforts in generating exciting data for this paper!

bioRxiv Microbiology@biorxiv-microbiol.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Pseudomonas aeruginosa uses kinases NahK and RetS to control the motile-biofilm switch https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.24.678285v1

Happy First Week of Classes at SBU! Sending a warm welcome back to our fellow Seawolves!

For ten weeks, Carlos Velez from the University of Puerto Rico joined us to do cool science as part of the SUNY SOAR Program at Stony Brook University. Carlos worked under the mentorship of Karishma Ramcharan, where he characterized the functions of phenazine derivatives in P. aeruginosa! #CIE@SBU

Check out the latest preprint from our lab! 🎉🎉🎉 PhD student Sweta Anantharaman (not on BlueSky) investigated how the NahK signaling system plays a role in NO stress in differing nutrient conditions! Sweta went above and beyond exploring new research areas in our laboratory! Excited for reviews!

bioRxiv Microbiology@biorxiv-microbiol.bsky.social · last yr.

The histidine kinase NahK in Pseudomonas aeruginosa is essential for nitric oxide-stress resistance in nutrient starved media https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.07.03.662950v1

Congratulations to our undergraduate researchers, Xingyu Xiao and Simran Singh, on their selection to participate in the 2025 URECA Summer Research Program! This opportunity allows for a 10-week full-time summer research with an awarded stipend. Proud of you both! #TotheBoon

Congratulations to our very own @withornjason.bsky.social for winning the 2025 Stony Brook University President's Award to Distinguished Doctoral Students! We are very proud of you.

Crazy to think how much the lab has grown over the year! We had our biannual group party, and we’re running out of space! No matter how large the group gets though, there will always be an appearance from “Stabby Crabby”

@stonybrooku.bsky.social had their first B.R.I.D.G.E.S. Symposium to showcase graduate research across Al departments yesterday. And shout out to masters student Natalie Alfano for winning second place overall! #herecomestheBOON

Another Safety Day win for the books! Lab safety is crucial in chemical research. Addressing lab safety helps identify and minimize risks, educate researchers on safe/proper practices, and how to respond if an accident does occur. Stay safe, wear your PPE, and don’t be a Mike Mazowski

Proud Mentor Alert 🚨 Natalie Osorio, a high school student I had the pleasure of mentoring this summer through @stonybrooku.bsky.social Simons Stem Scholars Program, advanced to the next stage of the Regeneron Talent Search! Fingers crossed 🤞🏻 Super proud regardless!

Congratulations to both Ngozi and Archana! Both second year PhD students passed their candidacy exam this week! Hard work paying off, now it’s time to rest!

A tad late, but Happy Thanksgiving! Our lab had a little potluck to celebrate the holiday!

The histidine kinase NahK regulates pyocyanin production through the PQS system #Pseudomonasaeruginosa -in J Bacteriology from Elizabeth M. Boon with @laahrs.bsky.social journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...

Come be my colleague! The Dept of Chemistry at @stonybrooku.bsky.social is searching for an Associate or Full Professor with expertise in synthetic chemistry, particular emphasis on synthetic organic or medicinal chemistry! Deadline 11/12. apply.interfolio.com/132539

Applications are now up for the IRACDA fellowship here at @stonybrooku.bsky.social. Apply to be a part of an incredible group of post-doctoral researchers with a focus on biological research and teaching! www.stonybrook.edu/commcms/irac...

17th Annual ICB&DD Symposium happening now! Come stop by for the poster show to see all of the amazing research being done by our students!

Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine announced! Congrats to both Dr. Karikó and Dr. Weissman! Big accomplishment for the field of biochemistry!

ICYMI: Last week, #SBU received its highest-ever rankings in the @usnews 2024 #BestColleges publication! These are also the highest-ever rankings for a @SUNY school: 🔴#1 Public University in NY 🔴#26 Among Public Universities Nationwide 🔴#58 Among National Universities