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12.18.24 || Rajendra passes Biophysics preliminary exam
11.16.24 || Jenny, Rajendra, Sihang and Simon presented their work at the Cell and Developmental Biology (CDB) Retreat. Congratulations Simon Lizarazo on receiving a flash talk award, and to Sihang Zhou for receiving a CDB graduate student seminar award!
11.07.24 || Rajendra's study on Pol III activity at protein-coding gene promoters is officially published at Molecular Cell, congratulations Rajendra and to all co-authors!
https://www.cell.com/molecular-cell/abstract/S1097-2765(24)00771-8
* check out this MCB research highlight written by Jeni Bushman: https://mcb.illinois.edu/news/2024-10-10/asking-big-questions-ui-researchers-illuminate-transcriptional-interplay-among-rna
10.18.24 || Jenny, Rajendra, Sihang and Simon presented their work at the 2024 Rustbelt RNA Meeting in Newark, Ohio. Nice job Rajendra K C on an abstract-selected talk!
08.26.24 || Undergraduate students Divya Choudhary and Junmeng Yuan join us from Molecular & Cellular Biology (MCB)
07.10.24 || Grace He departs to start her graduate studies at the University of Texas at Austin
07.03.24 || Sihang's study (preprint) on snaR-A ncRNA activity in cancer is online at bioRxiv!
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.07.02.601767v1
06.08.24 || Rajendra's study (preprint) on Pol III activity at protein-coding gene promoters is online at bioRxiv!
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.06.08.598009v1
06.01.24 || Marco Penaherrera's joins our team to investigate Pol III protein interactions as a summer visiting scholar from the Universidad San Francisco in Quito, Ecuador
05.07.24 || Simon presented his work exploring Pol III dynamics across tissues at the CSHL Biology of Genomes Meeting at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
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11.11.23 || Jenny, Rajendra, Sihang and Simon presented their work at the Cell and Developmental Biology (CDB) Department Retreat at Allerton
11.02.23 || Anshita and Leela presented their undergraduate research at the MCB Undergraduate Research Symposium! Congratulations Leela Mouli on receiving the School of MCB Director's Award for Exceptional Research Presentation!
10.15.23 || Our study of predicted regulatory features underlying POLR3G expression is published in a special issue on RNA polymerase I and III in Cancer. Congratulations first authors Jenny and Sihang and the rest of the team!
https://www.mdpi.com/2072-6694/15/20/4995
05.15.23 || Undergraduate student David Condroski joins us from Computer Science (CS) and Jamie Im joins us from Chemistry
05.09.23 || Rajendra passes Biophysics qualifying exam
05.01.23 || Anshita and Leela receive MCB Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowships (SURFs)
04.10.23 || Sihang passes CDB preliminary exam
04.04.23 || Jenny passes CDB preliminary exam
02.08.23 || Sihang's review on the Pol III transcriptome is published in WIREs RNA!
https://wires.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/wrna.1782
01.12.23 || Jenny's mini-review on Pol III RPC7 subunits (POLR3G and POLR3GL) is published in Frontiers Molecular Biosciences!
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmolb.2022.1073795/full
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10.22.22 || Sihang and Jenny present their work at the CDB Cell and Developmental Biology Retreat, congratulations Sihang Zhou on winning a flash talk award!
09.01.22 || Graduate student Simon Lizarazo joins us from Molecular and Integrative Physiology (MIP); Undergraduate students Anshita Jayanth and Leela Mouli join us from Molecular & Cell Biology (MCB)
01.12.22 || Graduate student Rajendra K C joins us from the Center for Biophysics & Quantitative Biology (CBQB)
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11.01.21 || Hello World from the Van Bortle Lab. Graduate students Sihang Zhou and Ruiying (Jenny) Cheng join us from Molecular & Cell Biology (MCB)