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November 2025
Lane lab students present at East Illinois American Chemical Society Undergraduate Research Conference! Katelyn Calderon, Jacob Payne, Owen Pike, and Alexandra Siemer presented posters of their latest research results at this event held at the University of Illinois.
October 2025
Owen Pike presents at Wabash Valley American Chemical Society Student Research Showcase! Owen presented a poster of his ongoing project “Synthesis of Alkylated Diketopiperazines for Testing Enzyme Substrate Tolerance.”
August 2025
Katelyn Calderon presents at Rose-Hulman Sustainability Scholars Poster Session! Katelyn finished her experience as a Rose Sustainability Scholar with a capstone poster presentation of her research “Genome Mining for New Diketopiperazines: Advancing Sustainable Nautral Product Discovery in Streptomyces.”
June 2025
The Lane Lab welcomes new teammates! Katelyn Calderon, Jacob Payne, Owen Pike, and Delia Rodriguez join the group.
March 2025
Dr. Lane presents at the Indiana Academy of Science annual meeting, sharing her team’s latest research results in a seminar entitled “Unleashing the Potential of Microorganisms as Chemists.”
December 2024
Alex Siemer joins the Lane lab. The Lane group welcomes Alex Siemer, a first-year Biology major who joins our group as part of the competitive Rose Research Fellows program.
The Lane lab welcomes its first research rotation students. Three Rose-Hulman Chemistry or Biochemistry majors are trying out the Lane lab this quarter as they complete our Research Rotations (CHEM490) course.
August 2024
Dr. Lane moves to Rose-Hulman! After 14 years at University of North Florida, Dr. Lane is excited to join the faculty of Rose-Hulman back in her original “home” state of Indiana.