Lab news
2025
July 2025- Welcome Fardin! Fardin is a new postdoctoral associate who recently graduated from Buffalo University. So happy to have you join us!
July 2025- Seychelle has been promoted to associate professor. Thank you to everyone in the lab past and present who made this possible!!
June 2025- Welcome to Awan Awan! Awan is a rising high school senior and is joining us this summer as an intern.
June 2025- TJ gave a wonderful presentation at the Building 68 retreat!
May 2025- We said goodbye to Laura. Laura is starting a new position as a field scientist for Lunaphore. Wishing you all the best in your future endeavors!
May 2025- Congratulations to Praise, a former MSRP student from the lab. Praise is valedictorian for UMBC class of 2025. Praise will be starting his PhD in September. We could not be prouder of you!!
March 2025- TJ presented his work at the Alex’s Lemonade Stand Foundation Crazy Eight Summit. Great job TJ!
March 2025- Welcome to Angelos! Angelos is a postdoctoral associate who recently graduated from McGill. Excited to have you join the team!
March 2025- Alexandra presented her great work at the CRUK Grand Challenges Symposium. She did an excellent job!
March 2025- Welcome to Marieke! Marieke is a visiting Masters student and will be working with Abdallah!
January 2025-Congratulations to Abdallah and Nika for both publishing their first, first author publications this month. Read their papers here: MORC2 and AGO2
2024
October 2024- Congratulations to Bonnie on defending her PhD work and starting a new job at Remix!
September 2024- Congratulations to Bonnie and Annette on their beautiful NELF review. You can read it here.
August 2024-Congratulations to Nika on her new role as a Science Writer at Flywheel. We will miss you and best of luck in your new position!
August 2024- The lab went to a historic Red Sox game.
August 2024- Welcome to Hanno Brach! Hanno joins our KOODAC team as a technical associate.
August 2024- Congratulations to Abdallah! His work with the Bartel lab on Ago2 was posted to bioRxiv.
August 2024- Thank you to Praise Lasekan for being part of the lab as an MSRP student over the summer. Praise presented his work at the MSRP poster session.
June 2024- Welcome to Alexandra D’Ordine! Alexandra joins our KOODAC team as a staff scientist.
May 2024- Congratulations Nika on officially graduating-first PhD out of the lab!
May 2024- Congratulations to TJ, Katha, and Annika for their work on MYCN and RNA being published!
May 2024- Congratulations to Annette on her co-author Neuron paper!
March 2024- Nika defended her PhD to a packed room. Congrats on presenting your beautiful work!
March 2024- We thank Cancer Grand Challenges for funding our work as part of team KOODAC.
February 2024- Bonnie’s paper on distinct NELF conformations is online at Molecular Cell. Congratulations Bonnie on a beautiful story!
January 2024- Bonnie’s paper is accepted for publication
2023
November 2023- Mohammed Hannan joins the lab as our new lab manager! Welcome Mohammed!
October 2023- Bonnie presents her latest work at the New England Cryo-EM symposium.
October 2023- Bonnie gives a great presentation at Supergroup on her latest results!
September 2023- The lab is officially an HHMI Freeman Hrabowski Scholar Lab. Thank you HHMI!
August 2023- Nika presents her work at the Penn State Chromatin and Transcription Meeting.
June 2023- Abdallah Mohamed gives a fantastic presentation at the Building 68 retreat.
June 2023- Theresa Hauck defends her Masters Thesis. Congrats Theresa!
May 2023- Annette Diao passes her prelim. Well done, Annette!
April 2023-Annette Diao is awarded the presitigous NSERC pre-doctoral fellowship. Congrats Annette!
April 2023- Nika Fendler is named a MIT Graduate Woman of Excellence. Congrats Nika!
April 2023- Katharina Schneider joins the lab for an internship. Welcome Katha!
February 2023- Roberto presents his latest results at Supergroup.
February 2023- Annika Brem joins the lab for her Masters Thesis. Welcome Annika!