Recent News

2023
  • Kavya is one of the 10 national recipients of the Undergraduate Research Scholar AACR award.
  • Sofia has joined the editorial board of Scientific Reports.
  • Sofia reviewed for the MSFB-NIH study section.
  • We hosted Dr. Michael Kearse from OSU for a great seminar.
  • Jonah and Aparna's lead authors manuscript was accepted into NAR journal.
  • Aparna and Yu-Fong's SBDS-UAA methods manuscript was accepted into Methods, Elsevier.
  • We hosted Dr. Slavica Pavlovic-Djuranovic from Washington University in St. Louis for a great seminar.
2022
  • We hosted Dr. Nick Reiter from Marquette University for a great seminar on RNA dynamics.
  • Sofia served as Chair of the Disease and Development Session at the RustBelt RNA Meeting in Ohio.
  • Poonam was invited to present a research talk at the Annual Bio-Retreat at SLU.
  • Aparna presented a poster at the RustBelt RNA Meeting in Ohio.
  • Aparna presented a poster at the national- CSHL-Translational meeting and local- SLU-IDBI conference.
  • Sofia received NIH-R01 funding to study mechanism of eIF6 and 60S dynamics in translational control.
  • Poonam presented her poster at the Gordon Research Conference on mutagenesis.
  • Poonam was selected for a talk to present at the Centre for Genome Institute (WUSTL) Retreat.
  • Congratulations to Aparna and Stella for being selected for talks at the Sigma Xi Conference.
  • Congratulations to Peyton for receiving Keath Undergraduate Research departmental award.
2021
  • Congratulations to Peyton for being selected to present at the National Collegiate Honors Council Meeting.
  • Congratulations to Peyton for his poster award at the Biology Undergraduate Research Symposium.
  • Congratulations to Peyton for his award for undergraduate talk at the Sigma Xi Conference.
  • Congratulations to Zephyr for being selected to present her work at the Honors Senior Legacy Symposium.
  • Sofia received the President Research Fund. 
  • Sofia received the Faculty Excellence Award.
  • Congratulations to Zephyr for the NCHC Creative writing award and for the Montesi Award at SLU.
2020
  • We hosted Dr. Sergej Djuranovic from Washington University in St. Louis for the seminar series.
  • Congratulations to Jonah for his acceptance into the MD/PHD program at University of Iowa.
  • Wisconsin Women's Health Foundation wrote a  brief blog on our paper/study- WWHF.org (BLOG)
  • Congratulations to Courtney, Jonah and Daniela on their paper and our first publication in JBC!
  • We are back! Lab is functional again but with masks and staggered schedules.
  • We just became members of the Siteman Cancer Institute at Washington University School of Medicine.
2019
  • The lab officially moved to Saint Louis university!
  • Arianna (Smith College) and Jacob (Bioengineering  student at MU) - Summer Research Program Fellows presented their work as a talk and poster. 
  • Jospeh and Sid (Franklin High School Student) presented  posters for summer research day.
  • Congratulations to Ryan - selected for a talk at the Undergraduate Research Conference at Lutheran College, WI and for joining the MS program in Bioinformatics at Marquette.
  • Congratulations to Ryan for Best Undergraduate Research Award
  • Congratulations to Courtney- heading to PhD program at Washington University School of Medicine.
2018
  • ​Sofia obtained Markos Breast Cancer Women Leadership Grant from the WWHF foundation.
  • Courtney presented her poster at the Midwest Enzyme Chemistry Conference, Chicago.
  • Sofia obtained NIH R15 funding.
  • Courtney presented her poster at the Cold Spring Harbor Translational Control (CSHL) Meeting.
  • Ryan and Lauren presented  a poster at the Undergraduate Summer Research Poster session.
  • Jonah Elliff and Courtney  attended annual AACR (American Association of Cancer Research) Conference.
  • Congratulations to Courtney  who won best undergraduate researcher award in the Dept. of Biology.
  • Sofia in collaboration with the Antony lab (MU) and the Volkman lab (MCW), received a Marq/MCW-MPI Pilot Grant.
2017
  • Jonah Elliff presented a poster at the Undergraduate Research Day at Marquette University​.
  • Courtney Jungers presented a poster at the Undergraduate Research Day at Marquette University
  • Sofia received a RRG and SFF Grant/Award from Marquette University.
  • Courtney Jungers (Summer Research Program Fellow) presented a poster and talk for the summer research program.