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2021

January 18th: Our review is published in Briefings in Functional Genomics !

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 !

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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 !!!

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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!!!

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