The BeSt Times.
September 2026
Our NIAID R01 grant focused on polymeric antibody assembly, structure and function has been renewed; we are grateful for the support. Congrats to the whole group (past and present) and especially Minsoo and Yujia who worked on the application last fall!
August 2026
Minsoo (and Madhusree!) present posters at the Annual MCB Retreat.
July 2026
Want to learn more about IgM and IgA structure? Read our recent review authored by Rebecca, Yujia, and Beth!
July 2026
Graduate student Madhusree Seal presents talk and poster on avian Fc Receptors at the 2026 FASEB Immunoreceptors and Immunotherapy Conference and wins a presentation award. Congrats Madhusree!!!
May 2026
Its a time of transitions! We thank Rebecca, Dalia, Sarah, Rainiel, and Dayu for their contributions to the lab and wish them the best on their next adventures!
April 2026
Graduate student Rebecca Schneider successfully defense her PhD. Congrats Dr. Schneider!!
April 2026
Graduate student Yujia Ji accepts the Recny Biochemistry Fellowship for 2026-2026. Congrats Yujia!
August 2025
Beth is promoted to Associate Professor with tenure and is named the 2025 Helen Corley Petit Scholar.
August 2025
Stadtmueller, Mehta, Wu and van der Donk Labs dressed as duck hunters for the 2025 EPI Retreat in Estes Park, CO hosted by Jenna Guthmiller and her lab!
May 2025
Congrats to Mengfan (Iris) Lyu who successfully defended her dissertation on fish IgM structure and engineering!
April 2025
Former PhD student Dr. Qianqiao (Heather) Liu returns from Stanford to accept the Biochemistry Trust of Urbana Award for demonstrating excellence in graduate studies and research. We are very proud!
November 2023
Congrats Dr. Sonya Kumar Bharathkar! The first PhD student to join the lab successfully defends epic dissertation research on the structures, assembly and engineering of SIgA.
October 2023
Heather’s paper is published in Nature Communications! Read the story here: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-023-42469-y
October 2023
Congrats Dr. Qianqiao (Heather) Liu! The first PhD graduate from the Stadtmueller Lab. We wish you the best of adventures in the Sharaf Lab at Stanford!
September 2023
Beth and Heather give the NIH Common Fund Transformative High Resolution CryoEM Webinar. Click on the image to learn more and watch the seminar!
June 2023
The Stadtmueller, Mehta, Wu, Guthmiller (CU Anschutz), and van der Donk labs gathered to share research progress on influenza-related projects.
May 2023
Iris is awarded the Lowell P. Hager Fellowship in Biochemistry!
May 2023
Congrats to our outstanding undergraduate, Asta (and graduate student mentor, Rebecca), for being awarded the Spudich Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship!!!
March 2023
The Stadtmueller Lab attends the West Coast Structural Biology Workshop in Pacific Grove, CA. Great talks and posters by Sonya, Iris and Heather!
January 26th, 2023
Stadtmueller, Mehta, Wu, Guthmiller and van der Donk Labs awarded $9.5 Million from HHMI to investigate and engineer antibody responses to influenza.
July 2022
Beth, Sonya, and Iris traveled to Seattle to present work at the 20th International Congress of Mucosal Immunology.
June 2022
Beth and the grad students attend the 42nd Steenbock Symposium held at UW-Madison.
May 2022
Heather was awarded the Dr. Michael A. Recny Graduate Fellowship for the upcoming academic year!
December 2021
Beth gives her 3rd-year review seminar detailing a lot of hard work by all lab members!
November 2021
Stadtmueller Lab funding from our new NIAID R01 begins!
June 2021
The Stadtmueller and Kieffer Labs spend the day at Homer Lake!
April 2021
Iris and Rebecca passed their prelim exams this month and are now officially PhD candidates.
December 2020
Stadtmueller Lab featured on the MCB website!
November 2020
Sonya received the Lowell P. Hager Fellowship in Biochemistry! Great job Sonya!
October 2020
The BeSt Lab’s first paper is out! Congrats to Sonya, Ben, and the entire lab for an extraordinary effort during extraordinary times!
September 2020
Congrats to Sonya on passing her prelims!!