Suja received an NSF CAREER Award!

Suja has received an NSF CAREER award to fund the lab’s work on NMD, specifically asking how physiological RNAs that resemble aberrant RNAs to escape quality control, as well as our outreach work with the Aurora Science and Tech Middle and High school. We are so grateful for this support... [Read More]
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Divya defended her PhD!

Divya Kolakada, our lab’s first graduate student, has successfully defended her thesis. I am beyond proud of all that she has accomplished during her PhD, including publishing two first-author papers. You can read them here and here! [Read More]
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Welcome, Greg!

New rotation student

Gregory Poterewicz, a first year MOLB graduate student, will be joining the lab for his 2nd rotation. Greg will be investigating mechanisms of feedback between NMD and transcription/splicing. We are excited to have him in the lab! [Read More]
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Welcome, Gabi!

New rotation student

Gabriela Padilla, a first year BSP graduate student, will be joining the lab for her 2nd rotation. Gabi will be exploring the mechanisms of DUX4 toxicity in FSHD. We are excited to have her in the lab! [Read More]
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Welcome, Abhishek!

New rotation student

Abhishek Deshpande is a first year MOLB graduate student. Abhishek will be exploring various pipelines for reclassification of variants of uncertain significance during his rotation in collaboration with Dr. Shawn McCandless. We are excited to have him in the lab! [Read More]
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