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Recent lab News
02-11-22
Sarah Matatov won the 2022 “Jackson best undergraduate thesis award in biochemistry” with highest distinction. Way to go Sarah!
02-11-22
Ullas Chembazhi won the “Outstanding poster award” at the Big Ten Academic Alliance Lipids Symposium. Well done Ullas!!
12-08-21
Graduate student Jessica Derham joins the Kalsotra Lab! Welcome, Jessica!
12-07-21
Graduate student Subhashis Natua joins the Kalsotra Lab! Welcome to the party, Subhashis!
11-10-21
Our collaborative work with Prof. Wenyan Mei’s group showing splicing factor PTBP1 controls intestinal regeneration is now up on bioRxiv! Congrats Ullas and Sushant!!
09-12-21
Zac Dewald won an “Excellent poster award” at the virtual Rustbelt RNA meeting. Congrats Zac!!
09-12-21
Ullas gave a talk while Sandip, Chaitali, Zac, and Sarah presented posters at the virtual Rustbelt RNA meeting. Great job everyone!!
08-27-21
Sushant gave a talk and Sandip, Bo, and Ullas presented posters at the virtual CSHL – Eukaryotic mRNA Processing meeting. Way to go everyone!!
08-16-21
Nick Baker is selected as a “Chemical Biology Interface” (CBI) Fellow. Congratulations Nick!!
08-11-21
Waqar Arif was awarded the 2021 Biochemistry Trust of Urbana Award for demonstrating excellence in graduate studies and research. Well done and Congratulations Waqar!!
08-11-21
Ullas Chembazhi was awarded the 2021 Colin A. Wraight Memorial Award in Biochemistry for an Outstanding Paper. Way to go and Congratulations Ullas!!
08-11-21
Kalsotra Lab research was covered by the Cancer Center@Illinois.
07-12-21
Waqar’s thesis work exploring role of SRSF1 in liver function and pathogenesis is now up on bioarxiv! Great collaborative effort with Cummins, Prasanth & Yeo labs! Congrats Waqar!!
06-18-21
We wish all our best to Jian and Bo as they embark on spending more time with family during this pandemic.
06-01-21
Nash received William C. Rose Professorship in Biochemistry!!
05-19-21
Sushant completed his thesis defense this week and will start postdoc in Poss and Di Talia labs at Duke in the fall. Well done Dr. Bangru!!
05-20-21
Zac gave a great talk at the virtual Annual RNA society meeting, Well done Zac!!
05-12-21
Joe passed his final defense and has started at Ricovr healthcare as a senior scientist. Congrats Dr. Seimetz!!!
05-01-21
Sarah won the 2021 Mayo Clinic Summer Research Undergraduate Fellowship, Have fun in Rochester Sarah!!
04-21-21
Our recent collaboration with the Anakk Lab was published in Science Advances!! Way to go Waqar!
Latest Tweets
Ladies and gentlemen, attention, please!
We are excited to share our latest discovery, “Sexually dimorphic RNA helicases DDX3X and DDX3Y differentially regulate RNA metabolism through phase separation” out in Mol Cell https://twitter.com/MolecularCell/status/1526939300478062592
Online Now: Sexually dimorphic RNA helicases DDX3X and DDX3Y differentially regulate RNA metabolism through phase separation http://dlvr.it/SQc7M7
this new initiative is built upon the existing strength of RNA research on campus to facilitate interdisciplinary collaborations within UCR and with external communities, and to train the next generation of RNA researchers. https://rna.ucr.edu/
Incredibly proud of this work & grateful for the wonderful colleagues I worked with. Here are some technical lessons & tips that have helped me over the years! https://twitter.com/embojournal/status/1518966881465647106
Mammalian UPF3A and UPF3B can activate nonsense-mediated mRNA decay independently of binding to the exon junction complex
@1guramritsingh and coworkers
http://embopress.org/doi/10.15252/embj.2021109202
Congratulations Anita!! Well deserved honor for a brilliant scientist who is also a fabulous colleague, a generous mentor, a ferocious advocate for the underrepresented, and much more. https://twitter.com/theNASciences/status/1520142147294572545
Anita K. Hopper of @OhioState is being inducted as a member of the National Academy of Sciences for contributions to our understanding of how tRNAs are processed and sorted in response to environmental cues.
Watch the #NAS159 livestream: http://ow.ly/YJmQ50IU6NC
Recent Works
Non-muscle RBFOX2 triggers cardiac conduction defects in myotonic dystrophy
This work was recently published in Developmental Cell.
ESRP2 regulates the Hippo pathway to aid
liver regeneration
This work was recently published in Nature Structural & Molecular Biology.
Poly(A) tail length regulates PABPC1 to tune translation in the heart
This work was recently published in eLife.
Meet the crew
The people who keep the science going!! We are a fun bunch of scientists, who love to work hard and party harder!!