Aaron Herndon and Heather Hunter start as the first student workers. One of the first lab jobs is to have a lab warming party.

Mike Giffin starts as the Czar of Autoclaves and other Positions of Power.

After Shelley did her first rotation in the lab, Xiangang Zeng and Yong-In Kim did the second and third rotations. Gang and Yong-In both wind up joining the lab as Ph.D. students in May of 1993.

Jim helps organize the first ever Texas Protein Folders Conference.

Matt Watts joins the lab. Heather stays for the summer and sequences everything in sight.

1993
Mike jams with Ira Herskowitz and Steve Raso at the Bastrop Opera Houseduring the Lost Pines Molecular Biology meeting.  Kathy Schrope and Henry Fang rotate.

The Hu Lab goes to the WorldCup!

The lab takes a Road trip to Madison, Wisconsin. Mark Briles, a teacher and country musician, spends the summer in the lab as a teacher-intern.

1994
Mike moves to Boston to work in Tania Baker's lab. Aaron gets early admission into the TAMU Vet School. In the fall, Thea Smith and Dale Humphries start as student workers. Dale decides working in three labs at a time is too much.

Mary-Elizabeth Huffine, Li Deng and Eric Greene rotate.

Jason Jaynes replaces Dale. Matt graduates. Mark spends another summer in the lab. Jim meets Lori Shilling at a Microbiology Society meeting where she asks if getting an A in P. Chem as a sophomore will help her in Biochemistry. Jim immediately recruits her to the lab.

Jason Jaynes replaces Dale. Matt graduates. Mark spends another summer in the lab. Anita Tharian works briefly in the lab. Mallam Phillips works in the lab and then graduates. Hai comes to College Station in the summer, but is not allowed to start working or get paid until the Fall, due to policies that are more strictly enforced after Yun Gao tries to make LB with ethanol in Giedroc's lab, and sets off the sprinkler system when she tries to heat the solution on a Fischer burner.

1995
Lori Shilling joins the lab after a summer with Fred Gimble. Cerissa Hamilton comes from the HHMI program. Hai rotates and then permanently joins the lab. Thomas Jose rotates.

Isabel Cristina Materon joins the lab. Mark brings his high school class to the lab for a field trip. Amanda McKnight joins the lab in the summer. Stephen Perez spends part of the summer in the lab as part of the ALPS program.

The lab's first publications come out.

1996
Gang and Yong-In both get their PhDs. Danica graduates in December. Jim and Debby gather data on GFP expressed from the araBAD promoter.

Mike van Zile, Ben Lasseter, John Flanagan and Tom Bernhardt rotate in the lab.

Gang leaves for a job in China, while Yong-In goes to a postdoc with Tania Baker at MIT. Before they leave, we have a Chinese potluck dinner at Jim and Debby's house.

Brenda Bravenec and Jen Rieker join the lab as student workers. Cristina takes some time off to study for MCATs and to do a summer program at Baylor College of Medicine. Lori gets into graduate school and graduates.

The lab gets an Interdisciplinary award and a Welch Grant to design proteins that will be dimerized by chemical ligands.

In the summer of 1997 the lab is busy and in constant flux. Lori stays until July before going home to get married and start grad school, but not before getting the 2-hybrid system to work at last! Kiran Polavarapu spends part of the summer helping Lori do beta-gals. Brenda and Jen start their projects. GJ Barrera spends part of the summer in the lab doing beta-gals for Jim as part of the ALPS program. Kent Hall and Shital Patel are student workers for the summer. Arthur Westover synthesizes dimeric methotrexate in collaboration with the Kelly Lab. John Deaton does a rotation where he discovers that AG1688 is resistant to methotrexate.

Mitch Singer visits from UC-Davis.

Amber Chen takes over doing beta-gals for Lori's 2-hybrid system.

1997
Robyn Filzen joins the lab as a tech and hires Barbara Blum and Sala Senkayi as student workers before she has to leave because her husband is transferred to Dallas. Cristina returns to do ELISAs. Jim gives his tenure seminar on Sept 10.

Hai, Brenda, Jen and Robb present a poster at Lost Pines, where Brenda, Jen and Robb get "helper" positions. The helpers leave the meeting party early to explore 6th street in Austin.

After Robin leaves, Jim tries to hire a couple of technicians before finding Clemencia Delosrios, who is moving to College Station.

The lab is a crowded and busy place with eight first year students doing rotations (John Deaton, Pablo Sobrado, Leonardo Marino-Ramirez, YanhongZhang, Aglaia Chandler, Ally Waldenstrom, Arina Hadziselimovic, and MattChampion).

Hai breaks his leg while playing soccer - contrary to rumors, Jim didn't break it to get him to work harder.

Cristina graduates and stays in the lab as a technician.

After months of waiting for visa paperwork, Clemencia is able to start in the lab in the beginning of 1998. Steve Kopytek joins the lab as the first postdoc.

Barbara leaves for the Spring semester to finish her internship at NIH.Rodney Bowling, John Dyer join the lab as student workers. The lab moves into new space in Rooms 443 and 446. This calls for another lab warming party, of course!

The lab wins the lottery by getting an ARP award to work on protein interaction networks.

Jim gets mutant and wild-type zebra fish from Bruce Riley for show and tell in 631, they stay in the lab as pets. Lela Hunt joins the lab as a student worker.

Cristina gets into grad school everywhere she applies. She chooses to go to the Microbiology dept. at Baylor College of Medicine.

Jim and Debby both get tenure!

In the summer of 1998, Barbara Blum comes back from NIH to work in the lab and three new grad students, Matt Champion, Arina Hadziselimovic and Leonardo Marino-Ramirez join the lab.

*Note* this is where previous information can't be used b/c there is none.... 
1998

1999
Gwen rotates through the lab.  

2000
Hai graduates and goes to Iowa.
Steve Kopytek leaves for Columbia University to go to Virgina Cornish's lab.
John Dyer graduates.
Brenda Graff leaves the lab after her husband gets a new job south of Houston.
Gwen joins the lab.
Matt and Leo pass their prelims

2001
Arina graduates with her M.S. and moves to CA.
The big NIH grant gets funded!
Jon Minor and Ritche Jabil join the lab as techs.
Team Leo is officially formed with a corp of people: Leonardo Mariño-Ramírez, Brian Hatten, Jon Minor are all working on the project.
Adrienne Zweifel and Lil Nu rotate through the lab

2002
Chris Campbell is a cross-country fien in traveling the US while applying to graduate schools.  Where will he go??
update: Chris decided to go to UCSF
Chris, Emily and Brian graduate.
Adrienne and Lili join the lab
Matt's paper gets accepted to Mol Micro
Leonardo Marino becomes Dr. and takes a job at the NCBI.
There are more PCs then Macs in the lab. Way to go team PC!
 

2003
Matt takes a job at Applied BioSystems, although he hasn't graduated yet.
Greg joins the lab.
Melissa joins the lab.
Krista and Ryan join the lab as student workers.  Krista starts to work with Lili and Ryan works with Gwen. 
Jim, Adrienne, Debbie and Gwen go to the Phage Meeting in Madison.
Matt gets engaged to the girl he met at last year's phage meeting!  (Dr. Patricia DiGiuseppe)
Gwen passes her prelims