2026
April 17, 2026. Featured on the cover of ACS Chemical Biology, our bacterial MV story, illustrated by Dr. Clarisa Carubin, depicts microbes exchanging bioactive molecules through vesicle-mediated communication. The artwork was partially created with Gemini AI.
April 8, 2026. Mingwei’s celebration for passing his MS defense.
March 24, 2026. Braden presented a poster at the Research and Creative Expression Symposium of the David C. Frederick Honors College.
March 4, 2026. Max and Josh gave excellent poster presentations at the Pitt Undergraduate Research and Creative Expression Fair.
February 15, 2026. We celebrated our first lab anniversary and Chinese New Year🧧! Wishing you all the best in the year of the Horse🐎!
January 1, 2026. Our lab just started a new tradition: having the lead authors post their own papers to recognize their contributions. Kudos to Yansong on the new mSystems paper, well deserved.
2025
December 17, 2025. Qihao would like to share his appreciation to the Wu Lab members and everyone in Pitt Pharmacy. As we approach our first anniversary, it is truly impressive how smoothly everything has come together, and that is because of your hard work, support, and teamwork. Thank you all for everything you do!
December 17, 2025. A big win for the Pitt men’s basketball team today, and our lab really enjoyed the game. Many thanks to Dr. Shekhar, who offered our school the use of his suite!
December 14, 2025. Join the Wu Lab and enjoy the gorgeous view of the Monongahela River from our lab space.
December 9, 2025. Jason visited us today and gave a fantastic talk for our Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences seminar. Many thanks to Song, Wen, Sam, and everyone in our department who made this possible. It was great to reconnect with Jason.
October 17, 2025. Our lab absolutely enjoyed a beautiful night at the Pittsburgh skyline.
October 12, 2025. The pitmasters @ Pitt are in the Wu Lab.
October, 2025. We have our first batch of microbes growing. Big thanks to the Bugni Lab for generously sharing strains. We’re ready to discover new natural products.
Wu Lab at Pitt 