Dr. Pietrantonio and Dr. Hernandez standing together for a photo following Jonathan Hernandez’s doctoral graduation ceremony December 2024.Jonathan R. Hernandez successfully defended his dissertation on October 2, 2024. Dr. Pietrantonio Chair his committee.Jonathan R. Hernandez successfully defended his dissertation on October 2, 2024. Committee members were Dr. Gabe Hamer, Michael Longnecker (Statistics) and Raul Medina (all from left to right in the picture. Dr. Pietrantonio Chair his committee.
Dr. Pietrantonio presented her invited talk on her laboratory discovery of the first insect prostaglandin receptor at the Symposium 9-1 on Insect Immunity at the International Congress of Entomology in Kyoto, Japan, on August 26, 2024.
Dr. Pietrantonio was invited and participated in the international Kolymbari Vector Meeting, at the Orthodox Academy of Crete, Greece, from July 13th -19th, 2024, which was organized by faculty from the Imperial College of London (in the photograph she is in the first row, middle-right, white shirt).
Yu-An ends her Visiting Scholar period in the lab and returns to NCHU in Taiwan. Left to right: Yu An Juang, Wook Cha, Jonathan Hernandez, Patricia and Han Jung Lee at Rudder Tower after the farewell lunch, February 7, 2020
Pietrantonio Lab Group 2019
Dr. Pietrantonio (center) with Professor Guy Smagghe (left) (Ghent University) and Professor Gerd Gäde (Professor Emeritus, Univ. Cape Town) during a short break visiting Smagghe’s laboratory at Ghent University while participating in the IUPAC international congress 2019
Pietrantonio (top, center) was invited State-of-the-art Speaker at the CECE 2018 (Conference of European Comparative Endocrinologists) at the University of Glasgow, Scotland.
Department of Entomology Banquet Pietrantonio Received Oustanding Woman in Science Award by The Entomology Graduate Student Organization March 1, 2017
Past Lab Members (from left to right): Hsiao-Ling Lu, Ph.D.; Cymon Kersch, M.S., and Kara Welch, R.E.U. undergraduate.
Fun in the lab (past lab members from left to right): Sasha Kay, Hsiao-Ling Lu, Cymon Kersch and Kara Welch.
From left to right: Paula Castillo, Prati Bajracharya, Yunlong Yang, and Hyeogsun Kwon working in the molecular lab.