LAB PHOTOS

15 January, 2020 - Mee Jung Ko presenting her PhD thesis project, and celebrating her successfully defense of her thesis.

December 9th, 2019 - Holiday Brunch and welcoming Yazan Meqbil

November 18th, 2019 - Angel Lin presenting her undergraduate research at the OUR fall symposium

October 21st, 2019 - Mee Jung Ko presented her poster at SfN 2019 with former Van Rijn labmember and contributing scientist Terrance Chiang. SfN 2019 dinner at Beatrix with Alex, Arryn, Mee Jung, Terrance and Logan Ganzen, a Purdue PULSe graduate student and long-time collaborator.

October 15th, 2019 - Celebrating the acceptance of our kratom manuscript in the British Journal of Pharmacology. With co-first authors Anna Gutrdige and Robert Cassell.

September 21-25th, 2019 - Mee Jung Ko presenting a poster at the International Brain Research Organization (IBRO) world congress in Daegu, South Korea and giving a talk at Konkuk University.

July 24th, 2019 - Angel Lin and Hongyu Su presenting their summer research projects at the OUR summer symposium

July 9th, 2019 - Dr. van Rijn presenting at the International Narcotics Research Conference in New York

June 4-24th, 2019 - Mee Jung at the Cold Spring Harbor Ion Channels in Synaptic and Neural Circuit Physiology course

May 6th, 2019 - Graduate student mentor Mee Jung Ko and Grace Mulia, 4th year BSPS student, getting ready for graduation ceremony.

May 2nd, 2019 - End of the semester celebrations at Another Broken Egg: Celebrating Arryn Blaine and Anna Gutridge passing OPs, tenure/promotion of Dr. van Rijn, graduations of Ben Cummins, Arbaaz Mukadam, and Grace Mulia. Also saying farewell to Maria Shelley, Kendall Mores, and Haoyue Cui.

April 30th-May 1st, 2019 - Rob Cassell is talking to Indiana Senators at Capitol Hill about Science funding as part of the ASPET Washington Fellows program.

April 22nd, 2019 - Arryn Blaine successfully defended her original proposal and is admitted to the PhD candidacy of the Purdue Life Sciences (PULSe) PhD program.

April 15th, 2019 - Mee Jung Ko receiving the Award for outstanding graduate teaching at the PULSe spring symposium

April 6th, 2019 - Robert Cassell and Anna Gutrdige with her ASPET travel award, at EB2019

March 27th, 2019 - Anna Gutridge opening her mini bottle of champagne in celebration of passing her defense of her original proposal.

December 20th, 2018 - Robert Cassell presenting his poster at the 2018 British Society for Pharmacology meeting

December 13th, 2018 - Departmental Holiday party at the Brewing Company

December 12th, 2018 - Secret Santa holiday lunch at Another Broken Egg.

October 8th, 2018 - Departmental retreat at Turkey Run Indiana.

July 25th, 2018 - 3rd year BSPS undergraduate Grace Mulia and 1st year Pharmacy student Maria Shelley presenting their summer research project at the Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship symposium organized by Dr. Van Rijn.

July 21st 2018 - Summer appreciation party with home made watermelon/strawberry/feta/basil salad, butternutsquash/jalapeno/tomato soup, salmon burgers, pulled pork, vegetarian meatball subs and farro/asparagus/broccoli salad. Also dessert treats from the Sweet Revolution bake shop.

June 16th-June20th 2018, Robert Cassell at the 2018 Conference of the Research Society on Alcoholism in San Diego (overlap with Anna and Mee Jung)

June 12-16th 2018 - Anna Gutridge and Mee Jung Ko at the 2018 International Narcotics research Conference in San Diego.

May 30th - June 4th 2018 - Mee Jung attending the Brains & Behavior: Order and disorder in the nervous system Cold Spring Harbor meeting

May 18-21st, 2018 - Mee Jung Ko attending and presenting at the IBANGS meeting in Rochester, MN

May 11th, 2018, Commencement ceremony and hooding of Dr. Meridith Robins.

May 7th, 2018, Celebrating Arbaaz Mukadam graduating with a Bachelor in Pharmaceutical Sciences. Congratulations Arbaaz!

April 30th, 2018 - Changing of the guard while eating ramen at Yatagarsu: Saying goodbye to Van Rijn lab pioneers Nook and Meridith, but welcoming Anna and Arryn to the lab! And prematurely celebrating Kendall's birthday....and even more prematurely Mee Jung's Birthday.

April 24th, 2018 - Meridith Robins receiving a Graduate teaching award from provost Jay Akridge.

April 23rd, 2018 - Mee Jung Ko presenting her research on TRPA1 pharmacology in mice and zebrafish at Experimental Biology 2018 in San Diego

April 10th, 2018 - Office of Undergraduate Research Conference

Oral and poster presentations by Kendall Mores (3rd best talk) and Arbaaz Mukadam.

March 23rd, 2018 - Greater Indiana Society for Neuroscience Meeting

March 5th, 2018 - Celebrating Dr. Robins's PhD defense with champagne and Thai food.

December 17th, 2017 - Graduation of Dr. Nook.

December 14th, 2017 - Visit Dr. Wen-Hai Chou in the Center for Neuropsychiatric Research at the National Health and Research Institute in Taiwan.

2017 Thankgiving dinner party hosted by Mee Jung Ko. Thanks for cooking Mee Jung!

Celebrating Dr. Nook's thesis defense!!

Mee Jung Ko and Meridith Robins presenting their research at the Society for Neuroscience in November 2017 in Washington DC.

Meridith Robins receiving a Kienly Award for Excellence in Teaching and presenting her Enoch Gordis prize winning poster at the 2017 Jenkins-Knevel Graduate student research symposium.

Van Rijn lab photo - October 13th, 2017. At Peppercorns Kitchen to celebrate the lab's R01. Left to right: Arbaaz Mukadam, Kendall Mores, Rob Cassel, Doungkamol Alongkronrusmee, Richard van Rijn, Mee Jung Ko, Ellen Jiwon Ha, Meridith Robins, Grace Mulia.

August 2017 - Dinner party at the Van Rijn residence in appreciation of all the hard work.

The Van Rijn lab at the International Narcotics Research Conference in Chicago, July 10-13th, 2017.

Mini-symposium on opioid receptors as therapeutic target for alcohol use disorders. From left to right: Dr. Kabirullah Lutfy (Discussion leader). Dr. Annika Thorsell (humanized mu opioid mouse model), Dr. Linda Rorick-Kehn (novel nociceptin antagonist), Dr. Braulio Munoz (striatal mu opioid receptors), Dr. Lucia Hipolito (inflammatory pain), Dr. Richard van Rijn (biased delta opioid agonists), Dr. Moriya Yuki (mu opioid knockout), Dr. Subhash Pandey (kappa opioid and neuropeptide Y receptors) , Meridith Robins (session chair).

Meridith Robins with her plaque presented by the Research Society on Alcoholism for her Enoch Gordis Research Recognition Award she received at the 2017 Annual RSA conference.

Dr. Zhong-Yin, Chair of the MCMP Department, presents Meridith Robins with a Paget travel award to attend the Society for Neuroscience conference in Washington DC to present her work on ethylphenidate.

Doungkamol Alongkronrusmee presenting her research at the College of Pharmacy Jenkins/Knevel symposium and receiving the Excellence in Research Award.