Katie receiving the EBS Research Staff Award!
Jen's Birthday
June 2025
CheSS zebra mussel collection trip at Newcomb Tract, led by Alyssa!
CheSS Science Communication Workshop led by Sarah McAnulty
CheSS Science Communication Talk by Sarah McAnulty
Labiversary Party
3 years since moving to Michigan, happy labiversary to us!
Grad students getting ice cream
Joey gives an awesome talk at the 2025 Squid-Vibrio Conference!
Katie wins the EBS Research Staff Award!
Dulce gives a fantastic talk at the 2025 Squid-Vibrio Conference!
Alana and Dulce run a 5k together
Jen crushing it at the 2025 American Society for Mass Spectrometry (ASMS) Conference!
Katie's birthday
May 2025
Jen and Hannah extracting lots of samples
Goodbye lunch for Josh and Connor
Josh's birthday
April 2025
The Balunas Kingdom hosts M&I Tea @ 3 with delightlyfully ogre-the-top treats and teas!
Joey selected to be the M&I candidate for the OGPS Award for Outstanding Teaching
Graduate Student Appreciation Week 2025
Jen inducted into the Bouchet Honor Society at Yale University!
Dulce gives a great M&I 812 talk
A great story published higlighting our awesome postdoctoral fellow Dulce
Alyssa and Xuejun working to maintain the LC-MS/MS
Joey gives a fabulous talk at the 2025 Marine Microbial Chemical Communication (M2C2) Conference in the Netherlands!
The team supporting Jen at her third year talk
Ants on Fire Extract team
Jen and Katie in the lab
Dulce receiving M&I admiration award
Balunas group holiday party 2024
End of rotation breakfast Fall 2024
Jen becomes a candidate
Alana's birthday
August 2024
Gillian's birthday
October 2024
Marcy's birthday
October 2024
Joey's birthday
November 2024
Jen receiving the outstanding teaching award 2024
Volunteering at Science Olympiad 2024
Balunas group holiday party 2023
Lab Trick - or -Treat 2023
Dulce's birthday September 2023
Gillian's birthday October 2023
Jungmoo's birthday January 2024
One year anniversary party 2023
One year anniversary cake 2023
Trip to the peony garden 2023
Katie receiving M&I admiration award
Team Bonding
Katie and Jen
Balunas group holiday party 2022
End of rotation breakfast at Angelo's
Jungmoo and Chloe
Balunas group at the M&I department retreat 2022
Kojo
Balunas group post marine sample collection
Balunas group 2020
Balunas group in Panama