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  • Great times with the team at the 28th Annual Meeting of the American Society of Gene and Cell Therapy!!
  • Great times with a great crew at ASGCT 2025!
  • Congrats to Daniel Reed on a stellar poster presentation at ASGCT 2025!!
  • Congrats to Daniel Brenner on a stellar poster presentation at ASGCT 2025!!
  • Great times with a great crew at ASGCT 2025!
  • Great times with a great crew at ASGCT 2025!
  • Great times with a great crew at ASGCT 2025!
  • Congratulations to undergraduate Mira Srinivasa on earning the Outstanding Junior in Bioengineering Award!! Fantastic work Mira!!
  • Congratulations to undergraduate Samantha Lydon on earning a Distinguished Service Award from Rice BIOE!!
  • Congratulations to undergraduate Samantha Lydon on earning a Distinction in Research and Creative Works Award from Rice BIOE!!
  • Comp cell production party planning committee hard at work!
  • Congrats to Daniel Reed on winning 2025 Hilton Lab March Madness Pool!
  • Lab Photo Day 2025!! Another great year with this amazing team!!
  • Foster City hometown boys...
  • Lab Photo Day 2025!! Another great year with this amazing team!!
  • Lab Photo Day 2025!! Lab Jacket Crew
  • Lab Photo Day 2025!! Last chance for everyone to pose like Jacob :)
  • Lab Photo Day 2025!! Another great year with this amazing team!!
  • Congratulations to Hailey Szadowski on defending her Master's Thesis!! Good luck Hailey!
  • The lab welcomes RJ with an overdue and well-deserved Pizza Party!!
  • White Elephant Gifts 2024. Thanks to Sandy and Alex for organizing a wonderful event!
  • Amazing review of the year's accomplishments by Selva!!
  • What's the most expensive item on the menu...
  • Celebrating another productive year with a fantastic team at the 2024 Lab Holiday Party!!! Grateful for this crew!!!
  • Amazing Hilton Lab Undergrads!
  • Congrats to amazing Hilton lab undergrad Samantha Lydon on her amazing poster presentation at BMES 2024!!
  • Congrats to amazing Hilton lab undergrad Samantha Lydon on her amazing poster presentation at BMES 2024!!
  • Celebrating PhD candidate Daniel Reed! Exciting and impactful thesis proposal!!
  • Gotta have something orange!
  • Congrats to (PhD candidate!) Daniel Reed on passing his thesis proposal with flying colors!!
  • Congrats to Guy and Sungwhan on outstanding thesis proposal defenses!! The future is bright!!!
  • Congrats to Guy and Sungwhan on outstanding thesis proposal defenses!! The future is bright!!!
  • Hilton Lab current and alum dinner at ASGCT 2024!
  • Hilton Lab current and alum dinner at ASGCT 2024 - had to include our awesome photographer!
  • Congrats to Daniel Brenner on a fantastic presentation to a packed house at ASGCT 2024!!
  • Congrats to Jing on an oustanding presentation on engineered biomolecular condensates at the GCC Innovative Drug Discovery & Development conference!
  • Congrats to Drs. Cabrera, Guerra-Resendez, and Goell!!!
  • Classic Cabrera
  • Great trio of PhDs!
  • Congrats to Dr. Jacob Goell on an amazing thesis!!
  • Congrats to Jacob on an amazing thesis!!
  • Snip snip!
  • A Rice PhD tradition!
  • Officially Dr. Goell!
  • Celebrating the newly-minted Dr. Goell!!
  • Amaury and Alex present the lab's ARPA-H funded work to build electrogenetic cell factories at the exciting and productive semi-annual review.
  • Exciting progress to electrogenetically produce immunomodulators!!
  • Congrats to Sunghwan on winning the 2024 Lab March Madness Pool!! Thanks to Daniel Reed for organizing!!
  • Congrats to Guy Bedford and Daniel Reed on earning NSF GRFPs!!! Hard work pays off!!!
  • Celebrating the new Dr. Guerra-Resendez!!
  • Celebrating the new Dr. Guerra-Resendez!!
  • Officially Dr. Guerra-Resendez!!
  • Officially Dr. Guerra-Resendez!!
  • About to cut the tie of the new Dr!!
  • Congrats to Rosa on an outstanding defense!!
  • Lab Photo 2024 - Awesome Team!!
  • Lab photo 2024 take 2 - Rice Owls
  • Lab photo 2024 take 3...
  • Lab photo 2024 Take 4 - everyone pose like Jacob...
  • Flexin'
  • Found some Hilton lab Rice Owl Undergrad Alums at the 25th BIOE Anniversary Celebration!!
  • Congrats to Barun on winning best postdoc presentation at the 2024 BIOE Research Retreat!!
  • Outstanding presentation from Jing on understanding and engineering human IDRs at the 2024 Rice BIOE research retreat!!
  • Thanks to Captain Guy Bedford for the fantastic guided tour around Galveston Bay!
  • Thanks to Captain Guy Bedford for the fantastic guided tour around Galveston Bay!
  • Thanks to an amazing team for another fantastic year of hard work and meaningful progress!!!
  • Amazing effort to whomever wrapped this white elephant gift!!
  • Getting ready to eat!!
  • Rosa presents her work at BMES 2023!! Outstanding work Rosa!!!
  • Celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month with this awesome crew!
  • Celebratory Brunch for the newly minted Dr. Cabrera!
  • Celebratory Brunch for the newly minted Dr. Cabrera!
  • Cutting the Tie - a Rice U. Tradition!
  • Cutting the Tie - a Rice U. Tradition!
  • Celebrating Dr. Cabrera!
  • Brothers in Arms - the final cut
  • Congrats Dr. Cabrera!
  • Congrats to Dr. Cabrera on an outstanding PhD Thesis and Defense!
  • Lab Bowling - 2023!
  • Barun and Alan present their work using new RNA scaffolds for the recruitment of diverse transcriptional effectors at ASCGT 2023!
  • Gearing up for Mario's hooding ceremony!!
  • Official congrats to Dr. Escobar!!
  • Officially Dr. Escobar!!
  • Hilton lab April 2023 - so forunate to be a member of this effective and collaborative team!!
  • Lab bingo!! No winners... this time...
  • Celebrating the new Dr. Mario Escobar!!
  • Celebrating the new Dr. Mario Escobar!!
  • Congrats to Dr. Mario Escobar!
  • Officially Dr. Escobar!!
  • Ceremonial cutting of the tie at Rice's Valhalla student bar!
  • Ceremonial cutting of the tie at Rice's Valhalla student bar! The student becomes the master.
  • Congrats to Mario on an outstanding thesis defense!!
  • Congrats to Mario on an outstanding thesis defense!!
  • So grateful for this team and all their hard work :)
  • White Elephant final gift distribution 2022
  • Daniel Brenner's cardio really is admirable. New members made amazingly thoughtful gifts for the Hilton lab old guard... a great team begins with great people - Thank you DR/HMS/SK/GB/ERT!
  • New members made amazingly thoughtful gifts for the Hilton lab old guard... a great team begins with great people - Thank you DR/HMS/SK/GB/ERT!
  • Spencer's White Elephant gift challenged everyone to contemplate what IS art?.
  • Lab Thanksgiving Potluck 2022! Thanks to Rosa for organizing and to Alan for Facetiming Daniel Brenner for the photo!
  • EpiBio 2022 Team Hilton Pic (Jacob and Jing each expertly presenting their posters in the background!)!
  • Alan presents his collaborative work on predicting gene regulatory outcomes at EpiBio 2022!
  • Alan presents his collaborative work on predicting gene regulatory outcomes at EpiBio 2022!
  • Congrats to Kai on an outstanding body of graduate work and successful thesis defense!!
  • Congrats to Kai on an outstanding body of graduate work and successful thesis defense!!
  • Dr. Wang's first official photo shoot.
  • Meta shot
  • Alea iacta est
  • Alea iacta est
  • Getting scissors to cut the new doctor's tie... a hallowed Rice Tradition!
  • Dr. Wang giving his first lecture
  • Congrats to Kai on an outstanding body of graduate work and successful thesis defense!!
  • Congrats to Kai on an outstanding body of graduate work and successful thesis defense!!
  • 5 years - full circle! Congrats Kai!
  • Great work by Kai on a successful Thesis Defense!!
  • Great work by Daniel on his successful and exciting thesis proposal defense!!
  • Celebrating Daniel and his successful thesis defense proposal! Great work Daniel!
  • Lab bowling! For the record IBH bowled a 174 and got a turkey... Alan seemed upset.
  • Great team working for a great cause! Learn how you can help here: https://www.houstonfoodbank.org/
  • Alan could run the whole place. Total natural.
  • Mahata also got recruited for pallet jack duty - probably something about shirt color?
  • Goell got recruited for pallet jack duty - no training, no problem.
  • Volunteering at the Houston Food Bank - Awesome Experience! Great way to help those in need!!!
  • Daniel getting hungry :/
  • Kai Wang - Powdered Milk Packing Master
  • Volunteering at the Houston Food Bank - Awesome Experience! Great way to help those in need!!!
  • Happy Bday to Rosa!! Delicious tres (maybe cinco?) leches from Mario and outstanding calorie bomb brownies from Samantha!
  • Happy Bday to Rosa!! Delicious tres (maybe cinco?) leches from Mario and outstanding calorie bomb brownies from Samantha!
  • Congrats to Barun on winning the Rice BIOE 2022 Postdoc Poster Award - A team effort!!
  • Congrats to Barun on winning the Rice BIOE 2022 Postdoc Poster Award
  • Congrats to Barun on winning the Rice BIOE 2022 Postdoc Poster Award
  • 2022 Lab Photo Shoot - Ready to hustle and do good things!!
  • 2022 Lab Photo Shoot - Fun team :)
  • 2022 Lab Photo Shoot - Heart Shaped Box
  • 2022 Lab Photo Shoot - stochastic contacts...
  • 2022 Lab Photo Shoot - Brothers in Arms the Remix
  • Joint celebration of Kai and Alan's bday's!
  • International Women's Day 2022!!
  • International Women's Day 2022!!
  • Lab Holiday Party 2021
  • Great team!
  • Enchiladas and Mexico City-inspired delights for the 2021 Lab Holiday Party
  • Holiday Party 2021
  • Holiday Party 2021
  • Holiday Party 2021
  • Holiday Party 2021
  • A book...?
  • Back to the pile for Chelsea!
  • White Elephant Gifts - final outcomes!
  • Fun day with a great team!
  • Grillin the good stuff - Jing's pork belly! Thanks to Alan for a ton of planning and cooking!
  • Lab hike round the Bend
  • These gators can be pretty sneaky...
  • This gator was very interested in Daniel in particular!
  • Personal reflection is important for well-being.
  • Hilton Lab Retreat 2021 - Great day with great people!
  • Awesome team!!!
  • This nuclease is too big for efficient delivery!
  • Picking Blueberries!
  • Picking vegetables!
  • Kai enlisted seasoned First Mate Dr. Barun Mahata
  • He's a natural!
  • Kai had no fear "Kai-yaking" for the first time ever
  • Hilton's Catch of the Day: Channel Catfish
  • Mahata's Catch of the Day: Largemouth Bass (big catfish not pictured).
  • Sittin' on the dock of the... pond
  • Rice CRISPRs... so many puns...
  • Hilton Lab Retreat 2021 - CRAYSPR CONFERENCE!
  • Hilton Lab Retreat 2021 - CRAYSPR CONFERENCE!
  • Rosa earns the 2021 Rice SSPB Early Achievement Award!!!
  • Lab lunch to celebrate Jing's Nat. Comms. publication! Thx Barun for the bird's eye view!
  • Rented a Rice U. clean air tent for a safe lab holiday/white elephant party!
  • Happy Holidays 2020 from our lab to yours! All vaxed and tested!
  • Tomo got Alan's homemade gift... please defer all Q's to Alan Cabrera...
  • Socially distanced outdoor celebration of Mario, Kai, and Rosa's successful Candidacy exams!
  • Socially distanced outdoor celebration of Mario, Kai, and Rosa's successful Candidacy exams!
  • Happily fed, PhD candidate Kai Wang remains pensive and reflective.
  • Hilton Lab Photo Spring 2020 - Lockdown Edition
  • Thanksgiving Potluck 2019! Thanks for organizing Rosa!!!
  • Thanksgiving Potluck 2019! Thanks for organizing Rosa!!!
  • Lab Lunch at the Burger Joint, 11.1.19.
  • Jacob earns Rice BIOE’s 2018-2019 Excellence in Leadership Award!
  • Hilton Lab at Welch Conference on the Chemistry of Genome Editing and Imaging. Venue staff were good sports!
  • Hilton Lab has 3 presentations and a poster at ASHG 2019! Not pictured Kai Wang
  • World class undergrad Jason Tan delivers a fantastic presentation about his work to engineer chromatin structure to a full house at ASHG 2019!
  • Kai gives an awesome talk describing how he is using epigenome editing to mechanistically understand human histone acetylation at ASHG 2019!
  • Kai thoughtfully and enthusiastically answers questions about his work at ASHG 2019!
  • Jing won a great poster award and T-shirt at AHSG 2019!
  • Jing expertly fielding questions about engineered histone phosphorylation at ASHG 2019!
  • New Hilton Lab Lab coats! Mario getting down to business with the Amp plates and Rosa subtly rockin' the CSHL T-shirt!
  • Rice 2019 Synbio Hangout, how many Hilton lab members can you spot?
  • Hilton Lab Spring 2019
  • A great team!
  • Hilton Lab 2019 Album Release Party...
  • Title track: Comrades in arms.
  • Lab Outing at Houston Axe Throwing! "Jing's style was certainly unorthodox, but ultimately quite effective". -BM
  • Alan deftly nabbed the first bulls-eye.
  • Andrei knocking down the trick shots.
  • Barun was an instant pro!
  • Viking pose!
  • 2018 lab Thanksgiving Potluck! Thanks for organizing Rosa!!!
  • Hilton Lab Team, May 2018
  • Mysterious... Classic Kai
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