Recent News
2025
  • Congratulations to Riley for receiving the best Biology dept. undergraduate research award.
  • Congratulations to Megan for receiving the second best poster award at Sigma Xi research conference.​
  • Poonam presented a talk at the MCBP-trainee series at Siteman Cancer Center, WUSTL.
  • Poonam presented a poster at the Center for Genome Integrity Retreat - WUSTL.
  • Sinthyia, Riley and Megan presented posters at  Sigma Xi conference-SLU chapter & undergrad/grad research conferences.
  • PI presented at the Gordon Conference on Translational machinery in Health and Disease.
2024​
  • Congratulations to Poonam for being selected for a talk at the DNA Repair Midwest Conference, KY.
  • Congratulations to Poonam for being selected for a talk at the Center for Genome Integrity Retreat hosted by Washington University in St. Louis/Siteman Cancer Center.
  • Congratulations to Aparna for best graduate research award in the Department of Biology.
  • Poonam presented poster at the Cold Spring Harbor Conference.
  • Congratulations to Aparna for second best graduate student poster at the Sigma Xi Conference.
  • Congratulations to Kavya for receiving the second year national award for best undergraduate researcher by the American Association of Cancer Research (AACR) and for presenting her research.
  • PI received the research scholarly award from SLU-CAS and OVPR.
  • We received the NIH-R01 Supplement award from NIGMS.
  • Megan, Riley, Sinthyia and Aparna presented posters at the Sigma Xi Conference.
  • ​Megan and Riley presented posters for the Undergraduate Biology Research day.
  • LinkedIn article: ​https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7157805865373175808?updateEntityUrn=urn%3Ali%3Afs_updateV2%3A%28urn%3Ali%3Aactivity%3A7157805865373175808%2CFEED_DETAIL%2CEMPTY%2CDEFAULT%2Cfalse%29​
2023
  • Congratulations to Riley for receiving the CAS Drahmann undergraduate research award.
  • ​Riley and Poonam presented posters at the RustBelt RNA Conference.
  • PI served on the NIH-MSFB and NIH-ZRG1-CDB grant panels.​
  • We received the NIH-R01 Supplement award from NIGMS for purchase of IVIS Lumina.
  • Kavya and Yu-Fong presented posters for the Sigma Xi conference.
  • Congratulations to Kavya- she is one of the 15 national recipients of the Undergraduate Research Scholar AACR award and she presented a poster at the AACR annual national conference.​​
  • Poonam's first author manuscript was accepted into Nature Comm journal.
  • Jonah ​and Aparna's lead authors- manuscript was accepted into NAR journal.
  • Aparna's and Yu-Fong's SBDS-unnatural amino acid labeling published in Methods (Elsevier) Journal.​
2022
  • PI 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.
  • PI served on NSF pre-proposal and full-proposal grant panels.
  • Aparna presented a poster at the national- CSHL-Translational meeting and local- SLU-IDBI conference.
  • We 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.
  • We received the President Research Fund. 
  • PI received the Faculty Excellence Award.
  • Congratulations to Zephyr for the NCHC Creative writing award and for the Montesi Award at SLU.
2020​
  • 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.
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
  • ​We obtained Markos Breast Cancer Women Leadership Grant from the WWHF foundation.
  • Courtney presented her poster at the Midwest Enzyme Chemistry Conference, Chicago.
  • We 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 & Courtney  attended annual AACR (American Association of Cancer Research) Conference.
  • Congratulations to Courtney  who won best undergraduate researcher award in the Dept. of Biology.
  • We in collaboration with Antony lab (MU) and 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
  • We 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.