We had some fun on rides and ate great food at the Minnesota State Fair. No official air hockey tournament as in previous years, but Nisha and Chi-Fang did face off against their fearless advisor in air hockey...you'll have to ask them how it went 😁.

Nisha keeps our streak alive with her best poster prize in the natural products division at the 2024 SIMB annual meeting...way to go!

James, Erin, and Larissa from Bethel University are joining us this summer on a joint research project...this should be fun, welcome!

Kathryn was awarded the Ross A. Gortner Award and Nisha was awarded the Armstrong-Pothapragada Graduate Fellowship during the 2024 Bollum Symposium...very impressive, congratulations!

There was no horsing around during Kathryn's graduate studies...impressive work Dr. Crone!

Aileen did pawsitively excellent at her Ph.D. defense, congratulations Dr. Lee!

Another fun lab outing getting our full hour's worth at ZE:RO Hour Escape Room followed up with some food, pool, and giant Jenga!

UNDEFEATED! Aileen again blasts through the competition at the 2023 SIMB annual meeting to win the poster prize for natural products, bringing her professional record to 2-0!

Long overdue!! 2nd (hopefully-from-now-on) Annual Freeman-Buller joint lab outing, this time at Perrot State Park.

Former Freeman lab member Dr. Freddie Miller is doing some exciting work at Miromatrix on organ transplant technology!

Our group keeps growing...Ankita Sikdar Sarkar begins volunteering in the Freeman lab!

Kathryn was presented with the Frederick J. Bollum Memorial Award after giving an AMAZING talk to close out the 2023 Bollum Symposium. We are all incredibly proud of you! 

Undergraduate Max Pinamonti joins the lab...welcome!

Aman does a fantastic job at his Ph.D. defense...we all will miss you. Congratulations!

We all had fun at Big Stone Mini Golf during this year's Freeman lab outing!

Kathryn is awarded the Ross A. Gortner Award for excellence in enzymology after the 2022 Bollum Symposium. She also received the competitive 2022-23 Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship from UMN...congratulations!!

Chi-fang joins the Freeman lab to explore mysterious natural product gene clusters!

Good food and better company at the Freeman lab BBQ, with special guest alumni Freddie and Matt!

Our group keeps growing...Dr. Takahiro Jomori joins our lab as a postdoctoral fellow...Yōkoso (ようこそ)!

Aman's blog gets some UMN press, highlighting how one person's compassion and effort can make a difference.

Nisha joins the Freeman Lab...Cowabunga!

We all had fun at the (virtual) Freeman Lab holiday party. Despite what Aileen kept saying, I wasn't the Imposter every. single. time.

Kathryn easily clears her BMBB graduate board oral exam - congratulations, well done!

Freddie rocks her Ph.D. defense - We could not be more proud of you!

Aman receives not one, but two TA awards: The Cyrus Barnum Teaching Award and The CBS Outstanding Performance Award for Teaching Assistants...way to go!

Another fun holiday potluck party for the Freeman lab to ring in the new year!

Floris de Waal from Wageningen University joins our lab as a visiting scholar...Welkom!

Sumire Kurosawa from the University of Tokyo joins our lab as a visiting scholar...Yōkoso (ようこそ)!

Our warmest congratulations goes out to our very own Freddie on her and Nathan's beautiful wedding day!

Undergraduates Sarah Schmidt-Dannert and Sayuj Suresh join the lab...welcome!!

Another day filled with barn animals and too much food at the Minnesota State Fair. Grueling battles at our 4th Annual air hockey tournament...Final results: Mike 1st, Aman 2nd, Freddie 3rd.

1st Annual Freeman-Buller joint lab outing at Great River Bluffs State Park.

Chloé Lopez joins the Freeman lab as a Biotechnology Master's student from the University of Lille, France. Bienvenue Chloé!

Aileen Lee passes her graduate board oral exams to officially become a BMBB Ph.D. candidate...congrats Aileen!

Freddie receives yet another award: The Outstanding Performance Award for Teaching Assistants. Next time leave some for the rest of us :^).

Aman Imani passes his graduate board oral exams to officially become a BMBB Ph.D. candidate...way to go Aman!

Aman and Aileen present posters at the Natural Products - Discovery, Biosynthesis and Application conference in Copehagen!

Freddie receives the Cyrus Barnum Teaching Award (and recognition of her ARCS fellowship) at the 2019 Bollum symposium dinner award ceremony!

Chandler Hellenbrand was awarded the Juliamarie Andreen Grilly Undergraduate Research Scholarship in Molecular Biology and the Monica Tsang and James Weatherbee Merit Scholarship in Biology!

Our team is growing! Welcome, Kathryn!

Anna Glöckle from the Technische Universität München joins our lab as a visiting scholar...Willkommen!

Celebrating the new year with a new tradition? (Bizarro holiday ornaments!)

Freddie Miller is awarded a prestigious ARCS scholarship!

Everyone is still stunned that Freddie was edged out of the standings at the annual State Fair air hockey tourney... Final results: Mike 1st, Aman 2nd, Matt 3rd.

Aileen Lee wins the coveted poster prize for natural products at the Society for Industrial Microbiology and Biotechnology Annual Meeting!

Congratulations to Matthew Jensen for starting his new assistant professorship in the chemistry department at Concordia University, St. Paul!

Jakub Michalski from Poznań University in Poland joins our lab for his summer scholarship. Witam Jakub!

Chandler Hellenbrand is awarded a prestigious LSSURP fellowship to fund her summer research in our lab…way to go!

Aileen Lee and Aman Imani join the Freeman Lab as BBMB Ph.D. Students. Finally! Our Korfball team is complete!

Jingle gels! Jingle gels! Running DNA. Oh what fun are aldehydes and laying crystal trays...Hey!

...too much fun and glühwein at The Freeman Lab Holiday Party.

Freddie and the Freeman Lab get a shout-out for their work helping high school students for Minnetonka Research.

A little university press for our borosin RiPP family discovery!

Second Freeman Lab state fair outing. The Second Freeman Lab Annual Air Hockey Tournament! Results: 1st place: Mike (they are not letting me win, I swear), 2nd place: Aman, 3rd place: Freddie.

Hip, Hip, Foray! First mushroom collection trip to Cloquet Forestry Research Station and Spirit Lake with collaborator Bob Blanchette and his lab. We’re walking on water…it’s a bog!

Freeman Lab outing to Escape MN! Question: How many scientists does it take to escape from Doctor K’s Lethal Injection Room? Answer: We have no idea.

Jacob Anderson awarded the prestigious Danielson Blake Family Scholarship…great job Jacob!

First Freeman Lab state fair outing. Also instituting the First Freeman Lab Annual Air Hockey Tournament! Results: 1st place: Mike (naturally!), 2nd place: Freddie, 3rd place: Aman.

Renovations complete! It’s a brand new lab…

Every lab needs an origins story ...

The saga begins…the Freeman Lab is born.