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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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