Freundlich Group Gallery

The Freundlich lab, during our group meeting and holidays celebration on Dec. 19, 2018. From left to right: Brendan, Joel, Ravindra, Niccole, Janaina, Xin, Shao-Gang and Alejandro. Not appearing in this photo = Jimmy.

Group holiday party in Chelsea Market on Dec. 14, 2018. Clockwise from the bottom, left corner: Alejandro, Jimmy, Ravindra, Shao-Gang, Xin, Janaina, Niccole.

The Freundlich lab, during our group meeting on Halloween, 2016. From left to right: Ricardo, Ravindra, Divya, Mark, Srinivasan, Shao-Gang, Xin, Alex, Jimmy, Sam, Joel, and Daigo. Not appearing in this photo = Nisha.

Jimmy Patel experiencing the joy of raising mutants, with collaborators Nancy Connell and Jim Occi (Feb., 2017).

Before we had a group autumn party on Nov. 21, 2016, a few of us went bowling. From left to right: Alex, Nisha, Jimmy, and Ravindra. This was the first time that Ravi had ever gone bowling. In the second game, he beat us all by a mile.

Group celebration on May 10, 2016, for Tom Stratton, who was about to graduate Summa Cum Laude from Rutgers, Newark. Clockwise from the bottom, left corner: Joel, Alex, Nisha, Daigo, Xin, Ricardo, Jimmy, Sam, Divya, Tom, and Mark.

Group holiday party in Manhattan on Dec. 22, 2015. Here we're pausing for a photo-op. in Chelsea Market. From left-to-right, front row: Xin, Tom, and Shao-Gang. In the back: Ricardo, Jimmy, Daigo, Alex, Joel, and Nisha.

Group meeting on Halloween-eve, 2015. Back row, from left to right: Mark, Ricardo, Jimmy, Daigo, Nisha, Alex, and Joel (as Dr. Who). Front row, from left to right: Shao-Gang, Tom, and Divya.

Group holiday party in Manhattan: by the Macy's displays, Dec. 22, 2014. Front row, left-to-right: Shao-Gang, Tom, and Ashley. Back row: Xin, Nisha, Joel, Divya, Joe, and Alex.

Tom Stratton with the Moles, at the American Chemical Society's 250th National Meeting in Boston (Aug. 2015).

Lunch at The Park in Manhattan, during our annual holiday party; Dec. 22, 2015. Clockwise from the bottom-left corner: Joel, Daigo, Alex, Xin, Shao-Gang, Jimmy, Divya, Ricardo, and Tom.

After the group picnic at Spruce Run Park, July 29, 2015. From left to right: Shao-Gang, Xin, Joel, Jimmy, Daigo, and Alex

The caffeine crew: we all had to grab some coffee and tea after enjoying our lunch, during the group holiday party in Manhattan on Dec. 22, 2015. From left-to-right: Daigo, Tom, Divya, Joel, Xin, Alex, and Ricardo.

Shao-Gang and Divya showing their support for the Green Chemistry initiative at the American Chemical Society's 250th National Meeting in Boston (Aug. 2015).

Dr. Alex Perryman (on the right) judging undergraduate research posters, as part of serving on an Advisory Board for an NSF educational grant, at Montclair State University, on April 18, 2016.

Group holiday part in Manhattan: Jimmy, Daigo, and Tom at Chelsea Market, Dec. 22, 2015.

Celebrating Xin's advancement to the Ph.D. Candidate stage. He passed his oral exams today, June 24, 2015. We celebrated at the default Freundlich fun factory, better known as 10th Street Live. Clockwise from the bottom left corner: Xin, Alex, Divya, Nisha, Daigo, Shao-Gang, Aysegul, Isabel, and Jimmy. Not in the photo: Tom, since he was the photographer.

 
https://youtu.be/uZu-vkR0qp8
Tom Stratton, his co-owners of 10th Street Live, and the management all shaved their heads on May 16, 2015, as part of a fundraiser for the St. Baldrick's Foundation. They raised over eleven thousand dollars to support juvenile cancer research. Check out the video and the website for details, and try to help support this worthy cause, if you can.

https://www.stbaldricks.org/events/10thStLive2015

The farewell party for Joseph Bilotta, which we held at 10th Street Live on May 15, 2015. Clockwise from left to right: Alex, part of Omar, Tom, Shao-Gang, Divya, Joe, Xin, most of Mike, and Daigo.

Alex going a bit overboard with the napkins, to protect his clothes before giving a presentation at the American Chemical Society's 250th National Meeting in Boston (Aug. 2015). On the left is half of Shao-Gang.

Tom and Prof. Joel Freundlich displaying the poster that Tom presented at the Newark Research Day on April 17th, 2015.

Tom can always have a good time. Here he is riding a luggage cart after the CDD reception, late one night at the American Chemical Society's 250th National Meeting in Boston (Aug. 2015).

This animation is from the Supporting Information for our new paper in JCIM. GO Fight Against Malaria experiment 5 included docking calculations against a key drug target for curing Tuberculosis called "InhA," which is shown as lavender ribbons. The most potent new compound we discovered is a small, "fragment-sized" molecule--its predicted binding mode is displayed as thick sticks with cyan carbon atoms. The parts of InhA with which this compound is predicted to form the strongest binding interactions are shown as thin, dark purple sticks. Since this compound can block the activity of InhA without requiring prior activation (processing) of it by the enzyme "KatG" from Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb), it might enable the future development of larger, more potent compounds that can defeat some of the drug-resistant mutant "superbugs" of Mtb (the bacteria that causes TB). Click here to read a News Article that summarizes our new JCIM paper.

Annual group summer picnic: this time it was at Spruce Run Park; July 29, 2015. From left to right: Mark (turned around and working the grill), Jimmy, Daigo, (the back of) Shao-Gang, Joel, Tom, and Xin.

Post-lunch nap for Daigo and Jimmy (with Shao-Gang in the back), during the group holiday party in Manhattan on Dec. 22, 2015.

Group hike & picnic at Terrace Pond, Waywayanda State Park, July 31, 2014.

Front row, left-to-right: Steve, Nisha, Ashley, Alex, & Shao-Gang.

Back row, left-to-right: Xin, Joe, Tom, Joel, & Isabel.

Group holiday party in Manhattan: at Bryant Park in the morning, Dec. 22, 2014. Left-to-right, front row: Prachi, Alex, and Joel; back row: Divya, Nisha, Ashley, Shao-Gang, and Xin.

The farewell party for Joseph Bilotta, on May 15, 2015, at 10th Street Live in Kenilworth, NJ. Clockwise from left to right: Joe, Xin, Mike, Daigo, Alex, Tom, and Omar.

Tom Stratton and Professor Joel Freundlich in the lab. This photo was taken for the biographical story of Tom that was recently featured in Rutgers Today.

"On the rocks," on top of the mountain near Terrace Pond, Waywayanda State Park, July 31, 2014.

Left-to-right: Shao-Gang, Alex, Isabel, Nisha, Ashley, Joel, and Xin.

Group holiday party in Manhattan: lunch at the Keg Room, Dec. 22, 2014. Clockwise from the bottom left corner: Joel, Prachi, Divya, Joe, Ashley, Tom, Alex, Xin, Shao-Gang, and Nisha.

Group holiday party in Manhattan, Dec. 22, 2014. Rockefeller Center in the rain; left-to-right: Shao-Gang, Xin, Ashley, Tom, Joe, Divya, Alex, and Nisha.

Group Dinner in 2012: Mike Szymonifka, Prof. Freundlich, Dr. Steve Paget, Dr. Shao-Gang Li, and Dr. Mi-Sun Koo enjoying a group outing.

The winter of 2013 was harsh, but it really made us appreciate the spring of 2014 even more (taken by ALP in front of the Medical Science Building)

Joe and Alex reach for the frisbee, while Ashley avoids a collision. Group hike & picnic at Terrace Pond, Waywayanda State Park, July 31, 2014.

Ashley Weng relaxing in Santa's Corner, Bryant Park, Dec. 22, 2014.

Tom Stratton enjoying the mountains in Wyoming.

Dr. Alex L. Perryman meeting Senatory Cory Booker, May 7, 2014, in Washington, D.C.

Tom Stratton and friends on a ski trip in Wyoming.

Our awesome collaborator, Dr. Sean Ekins, celebrating with Prof. Freundlich at Triumph Brewing Co.

Alex at Brookfield in Manhattan, during the group holiday party on Dec. 22, 2015. The artistic lights in the background remind me of the movie Pixels.

Joe having fun at his farewell party on May 15, 2015, at 10th Street Live. Also pictured on the left is part of Shao-Gang, and on the right, most of Xin.

Group holiday party in Manhattan: Alex, Nisha, and Divya at Bryant Park, Dec. 22, 2014.

Oktoberfest done right--Tom Stratton in festive attire.

It's a tough group. ;) Steve shields himself from a wayward frisbee at the group hike & picnic, Terrace Pond, Waywayanda State Park, July 31, 2014.

We had quite a spread at the annual group summer picnic, at Spruce Run Park on July 29, 2015. From left to right: Mark, the back of Daigo's head, Joel, Shao-Gang, and Tom.

Group holiday party in Manhattan: at Bryant Park in the morning, Dec. 22, 2014. Left-to-right: Tom, Shao-Gang, Joe, Alex, Nisha, Prachi, Joel, Xin, Ashley, and Divya.

Alex used to have hair. ;) When he was an undergrad. at MU, Alex Perryman met Governor Mel Carnahan, who was receiving the Gov. of the Year award from BIO.

Seriously, as recently as 2008, Dr. Perryman had hair. Here he is in Canterbury, UK, as part of a trip to present research at the Pfizer site in Sandwich, UK (which was sadly closed).

First group photo: Prof. Joel Freundlich, Dr. Hiyun Kim, and Mr. Anton Matveev at the Medical Science Building.

Group holiday party in Manhattan, Dec. 22, 2014. Alex by the Macy's display for Alex (check out the name on the stocking). Yes, that's a storm trooper in the background. :)

Anton Matveev, ready to work.

We're not always too serious. ;) A sillier moment at the group hike & picnic at Terrace Pond, Waywayanda State Park, July 31, 2014. Front row, left-to-right: Steve, Nisha, Ashley, Alex, and Shao-Gang. Back row: Xin, Joe, Tom, Joel, and Isabel.

A wider perspective on the plaza behind the Medical Science Building; summer of 2014 (by ALP).

(by ALP)