11-01-22
Oraya Zinder and Pallob Barai join us for a lab rotation. Welcome, Oraya and Pallob!!

10-15-22
Subhashis won the “outstanding poster award” at the Rustbelt RNA meeting. Congrats Subhashis!!

10-15-22
Zac gave a talk while Sandip, Ullas, Sushant, Subhashis, and Nick presented posters at the Rustbelt RNA meeting. Way to go everyone!!

09-30-22
Graduate student Katerine Dailey joins us for a lab rotation. Welcome ‘Katrine!!

08-22-22
Graduate students Adesanya Oluwafolajimi and Diptatanu Das join us for their lab rotation. Welcome ‘Fola and Dipta!!

07-11-22
Subhashis and Nick presented posters at the ISMB “iRNA—COSI 22” in Madison, WI. Subhashis won an outstanding poster prize. Nicely done!!

07-10-22
Nash and Ullas presented lab’s recent findings on dysregulation of RNA splicing in liver disease at a Gordon Conference in Maine!!

06-28-22
Ullas Chembazhi’s abstract was selected for an oral presentation at the FASEB Liver Biology Conference in New Orleans. Way to go Ullas!!

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!