Photos
December 2025: Kim Lab holiday dinner at Tapas Teatro in Baltimore.
September 2025: The two Kim Labs (John's lab and Yumi's lab) go to lunch together to ring in the new academic year (or, more to the point, commiserate over the end of summer).
August 2025: Kim lab members Youngyong Park, Danny Lenchner, and Julia Zhou prepare to compete in feats of science during the first annual JHU Wormlympics!
August 2025: Kim lab member Amelia Alessi (front) competes against other JHU scientists in a worm picking relay during the first annual Wormlympics.
August 2025: Kim Lab member Victoria Murphy (right) heroically stacks worm plates in the final relay competition of Wormlympics.
May 2025: The Kim Lab celebrates lab technician Anna Vakhnovetsky's acceptance to NYU's Grossman School of Medicine. Congrats Anna!
May 2025: The Kim Lab celebrates Dr. Mindy McClean Clark's successful public thesis defense. Congratulations, Dr. McClean Clark!
January 2025: The Kim Lab joins our lab neighbours, The Yumi Kim Lab, for dinner at Clavel in Baltimore.
December 2024: The Kim Lab decorates the lab door for the holidays.
August 2024 - The Kim Lab retreat was an afternoon to remember. Each lab member presented a fun, informative, and interactive chalk talk covering the research of a lab mate - even "becoming" that lab mate in costume!
May 2024: The Kim Lab celebrates the addition of two new graduate students, Tian Tan and Joe Dixon, over some delicious B'more crab!
May 2024: The Kim Lab (and Christian Kaiser!) celebrates the addition of two new lab graduate students, Tian Tan and Joe Dixon, over some delicious B'more crab!
January 2024: The Kim Lab goes to Cross-Fit. John's official statement: "Jessie forced us to go to Cross-Fit...never again."
January 2024: The Kim Lab celebrates the holidays with a dinner in downtown Baltimore.
October 2023: Kim Lab graduate students Jessie Kirshner, Victoria Murphy, and Mindy McClean Clark (left to right) watch Kim Lab technician Anna Vakhnovetsky speak at the dedication of the Bascom Undergraduate Teaching Laboratory building at JHU.
August 2023: The Kim Lab celebrates graduate student Jessie Kirshner's successful private thesis defense at Tapas Teatro in Baltimore. Congrats Jessie!
May 22nd, 2025: Kim Lab graduates Lars Benner (Left) and Mindy McClean Clark (Right) at JHU CMDB's Hooding Ceremony. Congrats Drs. Benner and McClean Clark!
May 22nd, 2025: Dr. John Kim hoods Kim Lab graduate Lars Benner at JHU CMDB's Hooding Ceremony. Congrats Dr. Benner!
May 22nd, 2025: Dr. John Kim hoods Kim Lab graduate Mindy McClean Clark at JHU CMDB's Hooding Ceremony. Congrats Dr. McClean Clark!
May 23rd, 2024: Kim Lab graduates Margaret Starostik (left), Jessie Kirshner (middle), and Nathan Roach (right) at JHU CMDB's Hooding Ceremony. Congrats Drs. Starostik, Kirshner, and Roach!
May 23rd, 2024: Dr. John Kim hoods Kim Lab graduate Jessie Kirshner at JHU CMDB's Hooding Ceremony. Congrats Dr. Kirshner!
May 23rd, 2024: Drs. John Kim (left) and Michael Schatz (right) hood Kim Lab graduate Margaret Starostik at JHU CMDB's Hooding Ceremony. Congrats Dr. Starostik!
May 2023: Dr. John Kim hoods Kim Lab graduate Himani Galagali at JHU CMDB's Hooding Ceremony. Congrats Dr. Galagali!
May 2023: Dr. John Kim (left) and Kim Lab graduate student Lars Benner (right) celebrate Kim Lab graduate Himani Galagali at JHU CMDB's Hooding Ceremony. Congrats Dr. Galagali!
May 2023: Kim Lab graduate student Victoria Murphy receives the Victor Corces Award for Excellence in Teaching at JHU CMDB's Hooding Ceremony. Congrats Victoria!
May 2023: Kim Lab members celebrate at the JHU CMDB Hooding Ceremony.
May 2023: Kim Lab members celebrate with family and friends at the JHU CMDB Hooding Ceremony.
May, 2022: The lab celebrates Kim Lab graduate Rebecca Tay's graduation at JHU CMDB's Hooding Ceremony. Congrats Dr. Tay!
July 2025: Research scientist Amelia Alessi presents her research to the smallRNA community at the 25th International Worm Meeting.
July 2025: Kim lab members Amelia Alessi, Victoria Murphy, and Joe Dixon settle in to enjoy the time-honored comedy show at International Worm Meeting at UC Davis.
July 2025: Kim lab graduate student Julia Zhou discusses her research at the poster session of the 25th International Worm Meeting.
March 2024: Kim Lab graduate student Lars Benner presents his work at The Allied Genetics Conference (TAGC).
March 2024: Kim Lab graduate student Victoria Murphy presents her work at the Metabolism, Aging, Pathogenesis, and Stress in C. elegans (MAPSS) conference.
Summer 2023: Kim Lab graduate students Himani Galagali, Victoria Murphy, and Jessie Kirshner (left to right) look forward to conference talks at International Worm Meeting.
Summer 2023: Kim Lab graduate student Himani Galagali presents her poster at International Worm Meeting in Glasgow, Scotland.
Summer 2023: Kim Lab graduate student Jessie Kirshner presents her work in a plenary session at International Worm Meeting in Glasgow, Scotland.
Summer 2023: Kim Lab graduate students Mindy McClean Clark (left) and Jessie Kirshner (right) prepare to present their talks at International Worm Meeting in Glasgow, Scotland.
Summer 2023: Kim Lab graduate student Mindy McClean Clark presents her work at International Worm Meeting in Glasgow, Scotland.
Summer 2023: Yumi Kim lab, Andrew Gordus Lab, and John Kim Lab members join for lunch in Glasgow, Scotland during a break from the International Worm Meeting.
Summer 2023: Kim Lab graduate student Victoria Murphy presents her poster at International Worm Meeting (and looks at the top of Thomas Duchaine's head).
Summer 2022: Kim Lab graduate student Mindy McClean Clark presents her poster at the Gordon Conference on Chromatin Structure and Function in Barcelona, Spain.
Summer 2022: Kim Lab graduate students Jessie Kirshner ( Left) and Mindy McClean Clark (Right) explore the coast of Spain on break at the Gordon Conference on Chromatin Structure and Function.
Summer 2022: Kim Lab graduate student Jessie Kirshner presents her poster at the Gordon Conference on Chromatin Structure and Function in Barcelona, Spain.
Kiki Kim!
Mochi Tan!
Boy Lee!
Girl Lee!
Buggy Clark!
Chevy Clark!
Esteban Murphy!
Marty Murphy!
Memil Park!
Frasier Carter-Lenchner!
Juno Carter-Lenchner!