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Recent lab News
06-07-22
Ullas Chembazhi won an Outstanding poster prize at the Annual RNA society meeting in Boulder, CO. Congrats Ullas!!
06-03-22
Sandip gave a talk; Zac, Sushant and Ullas presented posters at the Annual RNA society meeting in Boulder, CO. Way to go everyone!!
05-15-22
Sarah Matatov accepted by the MD/PhD program at Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University. Congratulations, and all the best Sarah!
05-01-22
Abid Anwar won the 2022 Mayo Clinic Summer Research Undergraduate Fellowship, Have fun in Rochester Abid!!
04-15-22
Chaitali Misra accepted a Senior Scientist position at Takeda Pharmaceuticals, San Diego, CA. Best wishes to Chaitali for her future industry endeavors.
04-01-22
Sarah Matatov received the 2022 “Michael Glaser undergraduate service award” to the biochemistry department. Well done Sarah!
04-01-22
Ullas Chembazhi and Waqar Arif gave talks at the 5th Annual Biochemistry Graduate Student Award Symposium. Congratulations to both!
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!
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.
06-01-21
Nash received William C. Rose Professorship in Biochemistry!!
05-20-21
Zac gave a talk at the virtual Annual RNA society meeting, Well done Zac!!
04-21-21
Our collaboration with the Anakk Lab was published in Science Advances!! Way to go Waqar!
Latest Tweets
Using genome-wide perturbations and quantitative sc measurements, @scottbscience et al. show that RNA concentrations are robust to perturbations of RNA synthesis and cell size due to negative feedback from nuclear RNA on transcription @lucaspelkmans http://www.cell.com/cell-systems/fulltext/S2405-4712(22)00170-3#%20
Has the ‘great resignation’ hit academia? https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-01512-6
Nicely done Sika et al….hearty congratulations 🎉🎈🎊
New paper from the lab led by John Vuong and @Ergin published in Nature Communications. A sequel to our previous publications shows neural-specific splicing underlies mammalian axon formation (exclusive to neurons). https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-022-29786-4
Nicely done! Congratulations
Very nice image by @Yiquan_W! https://twitter.com/ImmunityCP/status/1536731764005150722
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Listening to a fascinating talk right now from @McManusRNALab regarding this really brave preprint https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.02.10.479744v2 touching on controversial putative Hox-gene IRES. There is also an intense but respectful discussion here btw Barna and McManus labs: https://drive.google.com/file/d/11PmIIZ4xiq1CYVWAx1imA71Qdpv08DmD/view
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!!