This week marked the last days for two awesome colleagues, Evan Morgan and Alejandro (Alex) Suárez Lustres, who have spent the last few months in the Engle lab. Evan wraps us his postbac stay and will move to the Bay Area to take up a position as a medicinal chemist at Gilead. Alex will return to his home institution, University of Santiago de Compostela (Spain), where he will wrap up his Ph.D. with Profs. Carlos Saá and Jesús Varela over the course of the next year. We celebrated their time in the lab with food and festivities. Thanks to both Evan and Alex for making crucial scientific contributions and for being great colleagues!

This week the Engle lab celebrated 10 incredible years at Scripps Research with a surprise party, including a video montage, cake, and everyone’s favorite food—Hawaiian BBQ! Looking forward to several more decades ahead of research, teaching, and mentorship!