We are excited to share an article titled “Pipettes, Papers, and Persistence: The Ponderous Plodding Pathway to Undergraduate Research” written by our undergraduate students, Suvarshini Kadipi Reddy, Elizabeth Sommer, Fahad Mian, and Sam Sonsalla as …
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Sam Sonsalla First Paper Published
. We are excited to announce our undergraduate student, soon to be PhD student, Sam Sonsalla has gotten his article “Importance of vitamin D in gastrointestinal health and disease” published in Frontiers of Nutrition! …
DOM Research Day
On May 1st The Samarasinghe Lab had the privilege of having multiple lab members including, Molly Hellberg, Jasmine Quah, Sam Sonsalla, Elizabeth Sommers, and Fahad Mian, present posters at the Department of Medicine Research …
Undergraduate Symposium
We are pleased to share that our undergraduate lab members, Fahad Mian, Sam Sonsalla, and Elizabeth Sommer, participated in the UW Madison Undergraduate Symposium on April 17th, 2026. They were able to demonstrate their hard …
IMMUNOLOGY2026
This past week, April 15-19, Dr. Amali Samarasinghe and …
Samuel Graduate School Acceptance
We are so excited to announce that Samuel Sonsolla, a current undergraduate in the lab, has been accepted into graduate school and will be joining the lab as a PhD student this fall. As an …
Jarjour Research Day
The Jarjour Research Day Abstract Submission and Online Registration is open! Dr. Amali Samarasinghe is helping coordinate the Jarjour Research Day and we wanted to announce the abstract submission is now open. The link to …
New Member of the Samarasinghe Lab!
We are excited to welcome Dr. Panisara Meechan to the Samarasinghe Lab as a Postdoctoral Fellow! Dr. Meechan received her PhD in Immunology and Microbiology at the University of Newcastle and Hunter Medical Research Institute, …
Jasmine Quah Receives Witiak Travel Award
The Samarasinghe Lab is excited to share that Jasmine Quah has been selected to receive the Witiak Travel Award to support conference travel during the 2026 award cycle (July 1–December 31, 2026). This award honors Dr. …
Samarasinghe Annual Lab Meeting
….. ……………………. On March 13th the Samarasinghe Lab had their Annual Lab Meeting. The meeting was comprised of group bonding activities; like yearly goals, meditation, and a trivia contest; and presentations to get to know …