Lab news
2024
October 3rd: Blerta's review with Drs. Kyle Miller and Natalia Gromak is now published in Molecular Cell !
September 3rd: The lab's journey at the Department of Biochemistry at Emory University School of Medicine begins !
All of August: The lab moves to the Department of Biochemistry at Emory University School of Medicine in Atlanta, Georgia !
We send our warmest regards to colleagues and friends at the University of Texas at Austin, as well as our best wishes to all lab members who finished or needed to stay in Austin to continue their training ! We will miss y'all :) !
July 25th: Blerta visits and gives a talk at the Biochemistry and Structural Biology Department at UTHSA in San Antonio !
July 19th: Our collaborative paper with Dr. Arlen Johnson's lab is accepted in the Molecular and Cell Biology journal !
June 1st: Isha joins the lab for a Summer Internship !
April 23rd and 29th: Both Yi-Ru and Dharit successfully pass their prelim exams !
April 16th: Sravan defends his PhD thesis !
March 1st: Sravan gives talk at the ILS student recruitment event !
January 23rd: Blerta gives chalk talk at the Faculty Discussion Group organized by the Department of Molecular Biosciences !
January 3rd: The year starts well with the acceptance of one of our lab's papers for publication ! All our congratulations and heartfelt thanks to co-first authors, Hélène Ipas and Ellen Gouws, to co-second authors, Nathan Abell, Brandon Chiou, Sravan Devanathan, Solène Hervé, Marvin Mercado, Simon Lee, and Calder Reinsborough, and to our collaborators, Levon Halabelian and Cheryl Arrowsmith !
2023
December 12th: Sravan gives talk at the RNA & DNA club !
November 19th: Turja is promoted from Postdoctoral Fellow to Research Associate !
November 17th: Laura joins the lab for a winter rotation !
November 14th-15th: Our lab participates in the MD Anderson – UT Austin Research Collaborative Summit in Houston, with Sravan giving a selected talk, and Brandon and Yi-Ru presenting posters on their graduate research projects !
November 3rd: Sravan presents poster and wins second prize at the Procter & Gamble poster competition on the UT campus !
October 30th-31st: Blerta visits and gives invited seminar at the Department of Biochemistry in Emory University School of Medicine !
October 18th: Blerta visits and gives invited seminar at the Laboratory of Receptor Biology and Gene Expression in the NIH intramural Center for Cancer Research !
September 28th: Dr. Jordan Meier visits our lab and department, and gives talk on "Dynamic RNA acetylation revealed by Cross-Evolutionary Mapping" !
August 21st: Crystal joins the lab !
June 12th-13th: Blerta participates in the Ideation Challenge on Sequencing and Mapping of RNA Modifications at the National Academy quarters in Washington DC !
June 6th: Taylor joins the lab for a summer rotation !
June 1st:
Yi-Ru and Dharit join the lab as graduate students !
October 3rd: Blerta's review with Drs. Kyle Miller and Natalia Gromak is now published in Molecular Cell !
September 3rd: The lab's journey at the Department of Biochemistry at Emory University School of Medicine begins !
All of August: The lab moves to the Department of Biochemistry at Emory University School of Medicine in Atlanta, Georgia !
We send our warmest regards to colleagues and friends at the University of Texas at Austin, as well as our best wishes to all lab members who finished or needed to stay in Austin to continue their training ! We will miss y'all :) !
July 25th: Blerta visits and gives a talk at the Biochemistry and Structural Biology Department at UTHSA in San Antonio !
July 19th: Our collaborative paper with Dr. Arlen Johnson's lab is accepted in the Molecular and Cell Biology journal !
June 1st: Isha joins the lab for a Summer Internship !
April 23rd and 29th: Both Yi-Ru and Dharit successfully pass their prelim exams !
April 16th: Sravan defends his PhD thesis !
March 1st: Sravan gives talk at the ILS student recruitment event !
January 23rd: Blerta gives chalk talk at the Faculty Discussion Group organized by the Department of Molecular Biosciences !
January 3rd: The year starts well with the acceptance of one of our lab's papers for publication ! All our congratulations and heartfelt thanks to co-first authors, Hélène Ipas and Ellen Gouws, to co-second authors, Nathan Abell, Brandon Chiou, Sravan Devanathan, Solène Hervé, Marvin Mercado, Simon Lee, and Calder Reinsborough, and to our collaborators, Levon Halabelian and Cheryl Arrowsmith !
2023
December 12th: Sravan gives talk at the RNA & DNA club !
November 19th: Turja is promoted from Postdoctoral Fellow to Research Associate !
November 17th: Laura joins the lab for a winter rotation !
November 14th-15th: Our lab participates in the MD Anderson – UT Austin Research Collaborative Summit in Houston, with Sravan giving a selected talk, and Brandon and Yi-Ru presenting posters on their graduate research projects !
November 3rd: Sravan presents poster and wins second prize at the Procter & Gamble poster competition on the UT campus !
October 30th-31st: Blerta visits and gives invited seminar at the Department of Biochemistry in Emory University School of Medicine !
October 18th: Blerta visits and gives invited seminar at the Laboratory of Receptor Biology and Gene Expression in the NIH intramural Center for Cancer Research !
September 28th: Dr. Jordan Meier visits our lab and department, and gives talk on "Dynamic RNA acetylation revealed by Cross-Evolutionary Mapping" !
August 21st: Crystal joins the lab !
June 12th-13th: Blerta participates in the Ideation Challenge on Sequencing and Mapping of RNA Modifications at the National Academy quarters in Washington DC !
June 6th: Taylor joins the lab for a summer rotation !
June 1st:
Yi-Ru and Dharit join the lab as graduate students !
May 6th: Shilpa graduates and leaves the lab to start Medical School, we are so excited for her and wish her all the best!
April 21st: Dharit gives talk about his rotation work to CMB 1st year students !
April 11th: Brandon was awarded a Summer Fellowship from the University of Texas at Austin Graduate School !
February 16th: Brandon gives talk about his PhD work to the Interdisciplinary Life Sciences graduate programs !
January 27th: Yi-Ru gives talk about her rotation work to CMB 1st year students !
January 23rd: Joshuah joins the lab !
January 17th: Nicole joins the lab !
2022
November 14th-16th: Blerta participates in an NIH intramural Center for Cancer Research lab review !
November 11th: Ruth gives talk about her rotation work to CMB 1st year students !
November 2nd-3rd: Dr. Chuan He visits our lab and department, and gives talk on "RNA methylation in gene expression regulation" !
October 13th: Blerta gives guest lecture on messenger RNA modifications to incoming graduate students !
August 26th: Both Sravan and Brandon present posters of their PhD thesis work at the Interdisciplinary Life Sciences Graduate Programs retreat !
August 8th: Enrique leaves the lab, we wish him all the best !
June 20th-21st: Blerta serves on the NIH Cancer Drug Development & Therapeutics SBIR/STTR Study Section !
June 9th: Blerta visits and gives invited seminar at Duke Medical School !
May 25th: Blerta helps with the RNome Workshop "Capturing RNA Sequence and Transcript Diversity - From Technology Innovation to Clinical Application" organized by the National Institutes of Health !
April 27th: Blerta receives the College of Natural Sciences Spark award !
April 22nd: Shilpa presents poster at the Undergraduate Research Forum and wins the College of Natural Sciences Award for Excellence in Molecular Biology !
April 22nd: Cem gives talk about his rotation to CMB 1st year students !
April 2nd-5th: Blerta participates in the ASBMB 2022 conference in Philadelphia and gives invited talk in the "Noncoding RNA regulation of chromatin states and transcription" symposium chaired by Drs. Karolin Luger and Chuan He !
February 22nd-23rd: Blerta serves on the NIH Cancer Molecular Pathobiology [CAMP] study section !
2021
November 17th: Dr. Cheryl Arrowsmith visits our lab and department, and gives talk on "Chemical and Biochemical Tools to Probe the Epigenome” !
October 23rd: Nathan successfully defended his PhD at Stanford Medical School !
October 19th: Blerta gives guest lecture on messenger RNA modifications to incoming graduate students !
October 6th: Brandon joins the lab for his PhD !
August 25th: Ariana joins the lab !
August 20th: Blerta co-hosts with Drs. Tanya Paull and Kyle Miller the 2021 Molecular Biosciences Symposium on "It takes two to tango: RNA & DNA in genome integrity" ! Very exciting speakers and science !
July 15th: Our method paper is published in Methods in Enzymology: RNA modification enzymes !
July 14-15th: Blerta serves on the NIH ZRG1 F04B-H (20) L Fellowships: Chemistry, Biochemistry and Biophysics Study Section !
June 11th: Alexia leaves the lab to pursue a Master of Sciences in Public Health in Miami FL with a full scholarship, followed by Medical School. Although we will miss her, we wish her the bright future she deserves!
May 18th: Our collaborative research paper with the Miller lab is published in Journal of Cell Biology !
May 3rd: Shilpa was awarded a University-wide Endowed Presidential Scholarship !
April 13th: Sravan was awarded a Summer Fellowship from the College of Natural Sciences !
March 22nd: Blerta's editorial of the Special Issue on "Biological functions of RNA modifications" is published today in Briefings in Functional Genomics !
March 4th: Our research paper is published in Oncogene ! Congratulations to all authors, especially to co-first authors Calder, Hélène and Nathan !
March 2nd: Our collaborative research paper with the Horner lab is published in Cell Reports !
February 25-26th: Blerta serves on the NIH Cancer Molecular Pathobiology [CAMP] study section !
February 8th: Le Hoang joins the lab !
January 18th: Our review is published in Briefings in Functional Genomics !
January 15th: Calder leaves the lab to work at Prescient HG biopharma strategy firm. We wish him every happiness and success in his exciting new career !
2020
November 16th: Calder defends his PhD thesis !
October 29-30th: Blerta serves as an ad hoc member of the NIH CSR panel, Fellowship Cell Biology, Developmental Biology, and Bioengineering (F05-U) !
October 20th: Blerta gives guest lecture on messenger RNA modifications to incoming graduate students !
September 30th: Blerta gives an invited talk and co-chairs the first session of the virtual Keystone 2020 meeting on "RNA Editing and Modification: From Biology to Therapy" ! It was an amazing experience !!!
September 22nd: Our collaborative paper with the Miller lab was just published in Molecular Cell !
September 1st: Enrique joins the lab !
August 19th: Ellen leaves the lab to start her PhD in Microbiology at UT Austin, we are so excited for her !
August 6th: Blerta is appointed as graduate student advisor for the Cellular and Molecular Biology graduate program !
August 5th: Our collaborative paper with the Horner and Mason labs is posted on bioRxiv !
July 29th: Our collaborative review was just accepted in Essays in Biochemistry !
June 1st: Our lab partially reopens !
May 13th: Sravan passes his prelim exam on Zoom and becomes a PhD candidate !
April 6th: Calder is awarded a Summer Fellowship from our College of Natural Sciences !
March 16th: Our University and lab is in lockdown due to COVID-19 pandemic...
February 18th: Shilpa receives the College of Natural Sciences Second Year Excellence Award !
January 1st: Blerta receives funding from APX for a high risk, high reward project in collaboration with Dr. Yuebing Zheng in Mechanical Engineering !
2019
November 21st: Our collaborative paper was just published in Genes & Development !
November 20th: Dr. Eda Yildirim, from Duke University, visits our lab and department, and gives a fantastic talk on "Regulation of Chromatin Architecture and Transcription by Nuclear Pore Complex Proteins” !
October 22nd: Blerta gives guest lecture on messenger RNA modifications to ICMB graduate students !
October 1st: Shilpa joins the lab !
September 15th: Hélène leaves the lab, we will miss her so much, but wish her best of luck with her life and her career in Biotechnology !
September 6th: Blerta gives talk at the ICMB retreat !
September 4th: Blerta meets with the MBS postdoc association to talk about international science !
September 1st: It is official, Blerta becomes Associate Professor !
August 31st: Margot leaves the lab to continue her Master of Genetics in Paris, we wish her all the best !
July 20th: Sarah leaves the lab after graduating with a BSA in Biology! We wish her all the best with her medical studies!
June 24th: Our paper was accepted in PLOS Genetics ! Congratulations to Calder, Hélène, Nathan and all other authors !
May 24th: Blerta gives invited talk on "Targeting RNA interference in cancer" at the first Texas Chemical Biology Conference !
May 2nd: Blerta is a DoD YIP Info Session “Ask Us Anything” panelist !
April 24th: Sravan joins the lab for his PhD !
April 16th: Our paper was accepted in JoVE !
April 9th: Dr. Rachel Green visits our Department, and gives talk on "Insights into Translation Elongation Regulation from High Resolution Profiling” !
April 1st: Margot joins the lab !
February 15th: Blerta just heard the wonderful news that her application for promotion to associate professor and tenure was approved !
February 4th: Sravan rejoins the lab as a rotation student !
January 16th: Samantha, our lab's first PhD student, leaves the lab to start her dream job at 10x Genomics in San Francisco, CA ! We wish her the bright future she deserves !
2018
December 12th: Dr. Yunsun Nam visits our Department, and gives talk on "Chemical Regulation of Functional RNAs" !
December 4th: Samantha defends her PhD thesis with honors !
November 27th: Blerta gives invited talk at the Livestrong Cancer Institutes Research Retreat !
November 19th: Turja joins the lab !
October 19th: Blerta gives invited talk at the Dean's Scholars Friday lunch !
October 10th: Sarah joins the lab !
September 27th: Blerta gives invited talk at the SBBM "Understanding the Epitranscriptome" Symposium in Chile !
September 15th: Blerta gives talk at the EMBO Workshop on piRNAs and PIWI proteins in Montpellier, France !
August 31st: Sravan leaves the lab to start his PhD, we wish him all the best !
August 23rd: Blerta gives tenure talk !
August 20th: Ellen joins the lab !
August 3rd: Paiges finishes her summer fellowship in the lab, we wish her a great senior year at Texas Tech !
July 26th: The plasmids from our Shelton et al. paper are now available on Addgene !
July 18th: Adam leaves the lab to start Medical School, we wish him all the best !
July 10th: Blerta gives invited seminar at Ohio State University College of Medicine in Columbus, Ohio !
May 29th: Paige joins the lab !
April 26th: Samantha is awarded a Graduate School Summer Fellowship !
April 11th: Blerta gives invited seminar at University of Vermont in Burlington, VT !
April 9th: Blerta is awarded an R01 grant from the National Institutes of Health !
March 13th-14th: Blerta serves as an Early Career Reviewer for NIH in San Francisco, CA !
March 12th: Blerta gives invited seminar for the Gene Regulation and Genomics Seminar Series at UT Southwestern in Dallas, TX !
February 26th: Our collaborative paper was accepted in J Biol Chem !
February 5th: Alexia joins the lab !
January 10th: Our paper was just accepted in Cell Reports ! Special congratulations to first author and PhD student, Samantha Shelton !
January 3rd: Adam joins the lab !
2017
November 16th: Blerta gives talk at the "RNA Modifications & Epitranscriptomics" Cold Spring Harbor Asia meeting in Suzhou, China !
August 31st: Mélina leaves the lab to continue her Master of Genetics in Paris, we will miss her and wish her all the best !
August 16th: Blerta gives talk at the Center for Systems and Synthetic Biology !
July 3rd: Blerta gives talk at the Babraham Research Campus in Cambridge, UK !
June 30th: Dr. Eric Miska visits our lab and department !
June 7th-8th: Blerta presents poster at the Nucleic Acids Gordon Research Conference at Biddeford, Maine !
May 5th: Our collaborative paper is published in Angewandte Chemie !
April 3rd: Mélina joins the lab !
March 4th: Samantha presents her work in a selected talk and poster at the Department of Molecular Biosciences annual retreat at the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center !
March 1st: Blerta gives talk at the LIVESTRONG Cancer Institutes Basic/Translational Research Retreat !
January 17th: Our paper was just accepted in J Am Chem Soc ! Special congratulations to co-first authors Marvin and Nathan !
2016
December 8th: Blerta gives invited talk at the 38th Asilomar Chromatin, Chromosomes and Epigenetics Conference at Pacific Grove, California !
October 25th: Blerta gives third year review talk at the Departement of Molecular Biosciences !
October 9th: Nathan gives a poster presentation at the Cell Symposium on : Technology. Biology. Data Science at Berkeley !
September 8th: Prof. Ali Shilatifard visits our lab and institute !
September 3rd: Samantha wins best student poster presentation award at the ICMB retreat and presents her work in a short talk !
August 24th: Blerta gives an invited seminar at the Wagoner Center for Alcohol & Addiction Research !
August 17th: Sravan joins the lab !
July 21st: Our review paper is published in Plos Genetics !
July 11th-15th: Blerta gives guest lectures to the first ever class of Dell Medical School on some of her favorite things: RNA world, Epigenetics and the Fundamental dogma of Molecular Biology !
April 11th: Brandon was awarded a Summer Fellowship from the University of Texas at Austin Graduate School !
February 16th: Brandon gives talk about his PhD work to the Interdisciplinary Life Sciences graduate programs !
January 27th: Yi-Ru gives talk about her rotation work to CMB 1st year students !
January 23rd: Joshuah joins the lab !
January 17th: Nicole joins the lab !
2022
November 14th-16th: Blerta participates in an NIH intramural Center for Cancer Research lab review !
November 11th: Ruth gives talk about her rotation work to CMB 1st year students !
November 2nd-3rd: Dr. Chuan He visits our lab and department, and gives talk on "RNA methylation in gene expression regulation" !
October 13th: Blerta gives guest lecture on messenger RNA modifications to incoming graduate students !
August 26th: Both Sravan and Brandon present posters of their PhD thesis work at the Interdisciplinary Life Sciences Graduate Programs retreat !
August 8th: Enrique leaves the lab, we wish him all the best !
June 20th-21st: Blerta serves on the NIH Cancer Drug Development & Therapeutics SBIR/STTR Study Section !
June 9th: Blerta visits and gives invited seminar at Duke Medical School !
May 25th: Blerta helps with the RNome Workshop "Capturing RNA Sequence and Transcript Diversity - From Technology Innovation to Clinical Application" organized by the National Institutes of Health !
April 27th: Blerta receives the College of Natural Sciences Spark award !
April 22nd: Shilpa presents poster at the Undergraduate Research Forum and wins the College of Natural Sciences Award for Excellence in Molecular Biology !
April 22nd: Cem gives talk about his rotation to CMB 1st year students !
April 2nd-5th: Blerta participates in the ASBMB 2022 conference in Philadelphia and gives invited talk in the "Noncoding RNA regulation of chromatin states and transcription" symposium chaired by Drs. Karolin Luger and Chuan He !
February 22nd-23rd: Blerta serves on the NIH Cancer Molecular Pathobiology [CAMP] study section !
2021
November 17th: Dr. Cheryl Arrowsmith visits our lab and department, and gives talk on "Chemical and Biochemical Tools to Probe the Epigenome” !
October 23rd: Nathan successfully defended his PhD at Stanford Medical School !
October 19th: Blerta gives guest lecture on messenger RNA modifications to incoming graduate students !
October 6th: Brandon joins the lab for his PhD !
August 25th: Ariana joins the lab !
August 20th: Blerta co-hosts with Drs. Tanya Paull and Kyle Miller the 2021 Molecular Biosciences Symposium on "It takes two to tango: RNA & DNA in genome integrity" ! Very exciting speakers and science !
July 15th: Our method paper is published in Methods in Enzymology: RNA modification enzymes !
July 14-15th: Blerta serves on the NIH ZRG1 F04B-H (20) L Fellowships: Chemistry, Biochemistry and Biophysics Study Section !
June 11th: Alexia leaves the lab to pursue a Master of Sciences in Public Health in Miami FL with a full scholarship, followed by Medical School. Although we will miss her, we wish her the bright future she deserves!
May 18th: Our collaborative research paper with the Miller lab is published in Journal of Cell Biology !
May 3rd: Shilpa was awarded a University-wide Endowed Presidential Scholarship !
April 13th: Sravan was awarded a Summer Fellowship from the College of Natural Sciences !
March 22nd: Blerta's editorial of the Special Issue on "Biological functions of RNA modifications" is published today in Briefings in Functional Genomics !
March 4th: Our research paper is published in Oncogene ! Congratulations to all authors, especially to co-first authors Calder, Hélène and Nathan !
March 2nd: Our collaborative research paper with the Horner lab is published in Cell Reports !
February 25-26th: Blerta serves on the NIH Cancer Molecular Pathobiology [CAMP] study section !
February 8th: Le Hoang joins the lab !
January 18th: Our review is published in Briefings in Functional Genomics !
January 15th: Calder leaves the lab to work at Prescient HG biopharma strategy firm. We wish him every happiness and success in his exciting new career !
2020
November 16th: Calder defends his PhD thesis !
October 29-30th: Blerta serves as an ad hoc member of the NIH CSR panel, Fellowship Cell Biology, Developmental Biology, and Bioengineering (F05-U) !
October 20th: Blerta gives guest lecture on messenger RNA modifications to incoming graduate students !
September 30th: Blerta gives an invited talk and co-chairs the first session of the virtual Keystone 2020 meeting on "RNA Editing and Modification: From Biology to Therapy" ! It was an amazing experience !!!
September 22nd: Our collaborative paper with the Miller lab was just published in Molecular Cell !
September 1st: Enrique joins the lab !
August 19th: Ellen leaves the lab to start her PhD in Microbiology at UT Austin, we are so excited for her !
August 6th: Blerta is appointed as graduate student advisor for the Cellular and Molecular Biology graduate program !
August 5th: Our collaborative paper with the Horner and Mason labs is posted on bioRxiv !
July 29th: Our collaborative review was just accepted in Essays in Biochemistry !
June 1st: Our lab partially reopens !
May 13th: Sravan passes his prelim exam on Zoom and becomes a PhD candidate !
April 6th: Calder is awarded a Summer Fellowship from our College of Natural Sciences !
March 16th: Our University and lab is in lockdown due to COVID-19 pandemic...
February 18th: Shilpa receives the College of Natural Sciences Second Year Excellence Award !
January 1st: Blerta receives funding from APX for a high risk, high reward project in collaboration with Dr. Yuebing Zheng in Mechanical Engineering !
2019
November 21st: Our collaborative paper was just published in Genes & Development !
November 20th: Dr. Eda Yildirim, from Duke University, visits our lab and department, and gives a fantastic talk on "Regulation of Chromatin Architecture and Transcription by Nuclear Pore Complex Proteins” !
October 22nd: Blerta gives guest lecture on messenger RNA modifications to ICMB graduate students !
October 1st: Shilpa joins the lab !
September 15th: Hélène leaves the lab, we will miss her so much, but wish her best of luck with her life and her career in Biotechnology !
September 6th: Blerta gives talk at the ICMB retreat !
September 4th: Blerta meets with the MBS postdoc association to talk about international science !
September 1st: It is official, Blerta becomes Associate Professor !
August 31st: Margot leaves the lab to continue her Master of Genetics in Paris, we wish her all the best !
July 20th: Sarah leaves the lab after graduating with a BSA in Biology! We wish her all the best with her medical studies!
June 24th: Our paper was accepted in PLOS Genetics ! Congratulations to Calder, Hélène, Nathan and all other authors !
May 24th: Blerta gives invited talk on "Targeting RNA interference in cancer" at the first Texas Chemical Biology Conference !
May 2nd: Blerta is a DoD YIP Info Session “Ask Us Anything” panelist !
April 24th: Sravan joins the lab for his PhD !
April 16th: Our paper was accepted in JoVE !
April 9th: Dr. Rachel Green visits our Department, and gives talk on "Insights into Translation Elongation Regulation from High Resolution Profiling” !
April 1st: Margot joins the lab !
February 15th: Blerta just heard the wonderful news that her application for promotion to associate professor and tenure was approved !
February 4th: Sravan rejoins the lab as a rotation student !
January 16th: Samantha, our lab's first PhD student, leaves the lab to start her dream job at 10x Genomics in San Francisco, CA ! We wish her the bright future she deserves !
2018
December 12th: Dr. Yunsun Nam visits our Department, and gives talk on "Chemical Regulation of Functional RNAs" !
December 4th: Samantha defends her PhD thesis with honors !
November 27th: Blerta gives invited talk at the Livestrong Cancer Institutes Research Retreat !
November 19th: Turja joins the lab !
October 19th: Blerta gives invited talk at the Dean's Scholars Friday lunch !
October 10th: Sarah joins the lab !
September 27th: Blerta gives invited talk at the SBBM "Understanding the Epitranscriptome" Symposium in Chile !
September 15th: Blerta gives talk at the EMBO Workshop on piRNAs and PIWI proteins in Montpellier, France !
August 31st: Sravan leaves the lab to start his PhD, we wish him all the best !
August 23rd: Blerta gives tenure talk !
August 20th: Ellen joins the lab !
August 3rd: Paiges finishes her summer fellowship in the lab, we wish her a great senior year at Texas Tech !
July 26th: The plasmids from our Shelton et al. paper are now available on Addgene !
July 18th: Adam leaves the lab to start Medical School, we wish him all the best !
July 10th: Blerta gives invited seminar at Ohio State University College of Medicine in Columbus, Ohio !
May 29th: Paige joins the lab !
April 26th: Samantha is awarded a Graduate School Summer Fellowship !
April 11th: Blerta gives invited seminar at University of Vermont in Burlington, VT !
April 9th: Blerta is awarded an R01 grant from the National Institutes of Health !
March 13th-14th: Blerta serves as an Early Career Reviewer for NIH in San Francisco, CA !
March 12th: Blerta gives invited seminar for the Gene Regulation and Genomics Seminar Series at UT Southwestern in Dallas, TX !
February 26th: Our collaborative paper was accepted in J Biol Chem !
February 5th: Alexia joins the lab !
January 10th: Our paper was just accepted in Cell Reports ! Special congratulations to first author and PhD student, Samantha Shelton !
January 3rd: Adam joins the lab !
2017
November 16th: Blerta gives talk at the "RNA Modifications & Epitranscriptomics" Cold Spring Harbor Asia meeting in Suzhou, China !
August 31st: Mélina leaves the lab to continue her Master of Genetics in Paris, we will miss her and wish her all the best !
August 16th: Blerta gives talk at the Center for Systems and Synthetic Biology !
July 3rd: Blerta gives talk at the Babraham Research Campus in Cambridge, UK !
June 30th: Dr. Eric Miska visits our lab and department !
June 7th-8th: Blerta presents poster at the Nucleic Acids Gordon Research Conference at Biddeford, Maine !
May 5th: Our collaborative paper is published in Angewandte Chemie !
April 3rd: Mélina joins the lab !
March 4th: Samantha presents her work in a selected talk and poster at the Department of Molecular Biosciences annual retreat at the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center !
March 1st: Blerta gives talk at the LIVESTRONG Cancer Institutes Basic/Translational Research Retreat !
January 17th: Our paper was just accepted in J Am Chem Soc ! Special congratulations to co-first authors Marvin and Nathan !
2016
December 8th: Blerta gives invited talk at the 38th Asilomar Chromatin, Chromosomes and Epigenetics Conference at Pacific Grove, California !
October 25th: Blerta gives third year review talk at the Departement of Molecular Biosciences !
October 9th: Nathan gives a poster presentation at the Cell Symposium on : Technology. Biology. Data Science at Berkeley !
September 8th: Prof. Ali Shilatifard visits our lab and institute !
September 3rd: Samantha wins best student poster presentation award at the ICMB retreat and presents her work in a short talk !
August 24th: Blerta gives an invited seminar at the Wagoner Center for Alcohol & Addiction Research !
August 17th: Sravan joins the lab !
July 21st: Our review paper is published in Plos Genetics !
July 11th-15th: Blerta gives guest lectures to the first ever class of Dell Medical School on some of her favorite things: RNA world, Epigenetics and the Fundamental dogma of Molecular Biology !
June 22nd: Blerta gives invited talk at the FASEB conference on "Biological Methylation: Fundamental Mechanisms in Health & Disease" and falls in love with Lisbon !
May 5th: Blerta receives Breast Cancer Breakthrough Award from the Congressionally Directed Medical Research Program !
April 29th: Calder passes his PhD Candidacy exams too !
April 25th: Samantha passes her PhD Candidacy exams !
March 29th: Blerta co-hosts with Dr. Sharon Dent the Abcam Symposium on "Chromatin, non-coding RNAs and RNAPII regulation in development and disease" and gives an invited talk !
February 18th: Dr. Beat Fierz visits our lab and institute !
February 5th: Blerta gives an invited talk at the Dan L Duncan Comprehensive Cancer Center, Baylor College of Medicine/MD Anderson Cancer Center Joint Symposium !
January 20th-21st: Blerta presents at the Kouzarides lab reunion at the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom and meets old and new friends !
2015
October 20th: Blerta gives chalk-talk at the Faculty Discussion Group !
September 1st: Jesús joins the lab !
August 20th: Blerta gives an invited talk at the SGC Symposium on "Epigenetic Methyltransferases; Structure, Mechanism and Inhibition" in Toronto, Canada !
July 10th: Nakul leaves the lab to attend Medical School at Washington University, we will all miss him !
May 31st: Our collaborative paper is published in eLife !
May 22nd: Nakul receives a Dean's Honored Graduates award !!!
April 29th: Calder passes his PhD Candidacy exams too !
April 25th: Samantha passes her PhD Candidacy exams !
March 29th: Blerta co-hosts with Dr. Sharon Dent the Abcam Symposium on "Chromatin, non-coding RNAs and RNAPII regulation in development and disease" and gives an invited talk !
February 18th: Dr. Beat Fierz visits our lab and institute !
February 5th: Blerta gives an invited talk at the Dan L Duncan Comprehensive Cancer Center, Baylor College of Medicine/MD Anderson Cancer Center Joint Symposium !
January 20th-21st: Blerta presents at the Kouzarides lab reunion at the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom and meets old and new friends !
2015
October 20th: Blerta gives chalk-talk at the Faculty Discussion Group !
September 1st: Jesús joins the lab !
August 20th: Blerta gives an invited talk at the SGC Symposium on "Epigenetic Methyltransferases; Structure, Mechanism and Inhibition" in Toronto, Canada !
July 10th: Nakul leaves the lab to attend Medical School at Washington University, we will all miss him !
May 31st: Our collaborative paper is published in eLife !
May 22nd: Nakul receives a Dean's Honored Graduates award !!!
April 16th: Nakul is in the spotlight !
February 17th: Calder joins the lab !
2014
December 5th: Blerta finishes her first BIO344 teaching !
November 11th: Samantha gives short talk at the RNA & DNA club !
September 15th: Hélène joins the lab !
September 1st: Nathan joins the lab !
August 31st: Solène leaves the lab to continue her Master of Genetics in Paris, we wish her all the best !
July 17th: Our collaborative paper is published in Analytical Chemistry !
May 2nd: Blerta gives a talk at the Abcam Conference on "Crossing Boundaries: Linking Epigenetics to Metabolism" and wins a selected presentation award !
April 2nd: Blerta receives grant from the Welch Foundation !
April 1st: Solène joins the lab !
January 16th-17th: Blerta attends the TAMEST’s 11th Annual Conference on "The Computational Revolution in Medicine, Engineering & Science" as a protégé of the Texas Academy of Medicine, Engineering & Science !
January 17th: Nakul joins the lab !
2013
December 12th: Blerta presents at the Center for Systems and Synthetic Biology !
December 2nd: Samantha joins the lab !
November 25th: The lab gets highlighted in the Catalyst !
November 8th-9th: Blerta is a judge for the Siemens Competition in Mathematics, Science and Technology !
September 15th: Marvin joins the lab !
September 1st: The XHEMALCE LAB JOURNEY STARTS!!!
2014
December 5th: Blerta finishes her first BIO344 teaching !
November 11th: Samantha gives short talk at the RNA & DNA club !
September 15th: Hélène joins the lab !
September 1st: Nathan joins the lab !
August 31st: Solène leaves the lab to continue her Master of Genetics in Paris, we wish her all the best !
July 17th: Our collaborative paper is published in Analytical Chemistry !
May 2nd: Blerta gives a talk at the Abcam Conference on "Crossing Boundaries: Linking Epigenetics to Metabolism" and wins a selected presentation award !
April 2nd: Blerta receives grant from the Welch Foundation !
April 1st: Solène joins the lab !
January 16th-17th: Blerta attends the TAMEST’s 11th Annual Conference on "The Computational Revolution in Medicine, Engineering & Science" as a protégé of the Texas Academy of Medicine, Engineering & Science !
January 17th: Nakul joins the lab !
2013
December 12th: Blerta presents at the Center for Systems and Synthetic Biology !
December 2nd: Samantha joins the lab !
November 25th: The lab gets highlighted in the Catalyst !
November 8th-9th: Blerta is a judge for the Siemens Competition in Mathematics, Science and Technology !
September 15th: Marvin joins the lab !
September 1st: The XHEMALCE LAB JOURNEY STARTS!!!