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Recent lab News
02-21-25
Dr. Haneui Bae was recently awarded the 2025 Myotonic Dystrophy Foundation postdoctoral fellowship for pursuing her current research in understanding the molecular mechanisms of liver dysfunctions in myotonic dystrophy. Congratulations! Click here to read more.
02-18-25
‘Fola Adesanya was recently awarded the American Heart Association predoctoral fellowship 2025! Way to go! Click here for more details.
08-01-23
Sandip Chorghade is promoted to the rank of Visiting Research Scientist, Congrats and well-deserved Sandip!
07-25-23
Muscular Dystrophy Association funds Kalsotra Lab to study mechanisms of fatty liver disease and impaired drug metabolism in DM1. Congrats to Zac Dewald and the whole team!!!
07-25-23
Our collaborative work with W. Yokoyama lab at Wash U is accepted by J Exp Med. Congrats to Sushant (co-first author) for a job well done!
06-28-23
Jessica and Nash’s review on the discovery, function and regulation of ESRP proteins was published in Biochem Soc Trans. Way to Go Jess!
06-01-23
Ullas was awarded the 2023 Biochemistry Trust of Urbana Award for demonstrating excellence in graduate studies and research. Well done and Congratulations Ullas!!
05-22-23
Subhashis was awarded the Michael A. Recny Graduate Fellowship in Biochemistry!! Way to go!!
05-15-23
Jeongmin Lee was awarded the Outstanding Undergraduate Thesis Award in Biochemistry with highest distinction, Congratulations Jeongmin!.
05-14-23
An absolute honor to hood my student Ullas Chembazhi at the SMCB graduation ceremony. Congrats Dr. Chembazhi.
04-19-23
Jessica Derham and Subhashis Natua passed their Ph.D. qualifying exams with flying colors. Heartiest congratulations to both!
04-15-23
Best wishes to Ullas for starting his postdoc in the Morrissey lab at U Penn.
04-11-23
Ishita Purwar won the 2023 School of MCB Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship. Well done Ishita!
03-31-23
Ullas Chembazhi gave a talk about the lab’s recent findings on dysregulation of RNA splicing in alcoholic liver disease at the Gordon Conference in Ventura, CA!! Way to go Ullas!
02-15-23
Subhashis presented a poster on post-transcriptional gene regulation in the heart and wowed everyone at the Keystone Symposia in Santa Fe, NM. Nicely done!!
02-15-23
Our collaborative manuscript with Wenyan Mei’s group examining PTBP1’s role in intestinal epithelial regeneration is published in NAR. Congrats to Ullas!!
02-09-23
Waqar’s manuscript examining SRSF1’s role in the liver is published in Nature Communications. Congrats to the whole team!!
12-15-22
Graduate students Adesanya Oluwafolajimi and Diptatanu Das join the Kalsotra Lab! Welcome to the party ‘Fola and Dipta!!
12-08-22
Ullas successfully defended his thesis and accepted a postdoc in the Morrissey lab at U Penn. Well done Dr. Chembazhi!!
Representative Work
Altered drug metabolism and increased susceptibility to fatty liver disease in a mouse model of myotonic dystrophy
This work was published in Nature Communications.
Splicing factor SRSF1 deficiency in the liver triggers NASH-like pathology and cell death
This work was published in Nature Communications.
Non-muscle RBFOX2 triggers cardiac conduction defects in myotonic dystrophy
This work was published in Developmental Cell.
ESRP2 regulates the Hippo pathway to aid liver regeneration
This work was published in Nature Structural & Molecular Biology.
Poly(A) tail length regulates PABPC1 to tune translation in the heart
This work was published in eLife.
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