News

August 29, 2013
Former postdoc Joao Marques publishes in PLoS Pathogens with the lab!
A new paper by Joao and Rich came out in PLoS Pathogens on the role of RNAi in antiviral defense. Check it out.

August 1, 2013
Diana Posadas has been awarded a Pew Fellowship!
Diana Posadas distinguishes herself and the entire lab by receiving a prestigious Pew Latin American Postdoctoral Fellowship. View more information and the full list of recipients at the Pew website.

July 15, 2013
Lab jocks go the distance!
Several lab members have successfully completed the Chicago half marathon and we don't know how you survived the heat. Way to go!

June 20, 2013
Justin Cassidy successfully defends his thesis!
Justin Cassidy has defended his PhD thesis studying the functions of miR-7 and miR-9 in development. They suppress the impact of environmental and genomic variation on cell behaviors such as differentiation. We will miss you Justin!

June 18, 2013
Jingran Ji graduates Northwestern!
Jin completed an honors thesis on his work with miR-7 and finished his BSc. Degree. As part of his HPME program, Jin is off to medical school in the fall.

June 15, 2013
Pamela Agbu joins the lab!
Pamela Agbu joins us as a first year IBiS graduate student. Welcome Pamela!

June 11, 2013
Ritika Giri passes her PhD qualifying exam!
Ritika Giri successfully transitioned from second to third year candidacy status with an outstanding defense. Way to go Ritika!

February 1, 2013
Anna Bobrowska joins the lab!
Anna Bobrowska has joined us as a new postdoc. She received her PhD at Kings College in London with Gillian Bates. Welcome Anna!

December 4, 2012
Xuan Wu successfully defends her thesis!
Pei Hsuan Wu has defended his PhD thesis studying the regulation of miRNA effector complexes by lipid signaling. She is off to a postdoc in Phil Zamore's lab at University of Massachusetts. We will miss you Xuan!

October 30, 2012
Karla Oliveira returns to Brazil!
Karla Oliveira has spent a productive six months in the lab as an exchange student from Brazil with a government scholarship. She studied virus infection and RNAi. We will miss you Karla. Adeus!

September 30, 2012
Yanxia Bei completes her postdoc!
Yanxia Bei has been a valued member of the lab for six years and will be very much missed. New opportunities in New England beckon and we wish her the best.

July 1, 2012
Catherine Reinke completes her postdoc.
Catherine Reinke has been with us for five years and we already miss her. Our loss is Linfield College's gain and we know she is going to be a fabulous educator and researcher there. Best of luck Catherine!

June 15, 2012
Ritika Giri joins the lab!
Ritika Giri is a first year IBiS graduate student who has joined our lab for her PhD thesis. Welcome Ritika!

September 1, 2011
Nic Pelaez has been awarded a HHMI Fellowship!
Nicolas Pelaez distinguishes himself and the entire lab by receiving the prestigious Howard Hughes Medical Institute Fellowship. Offered for the first time this year, the award funds international students who are several years into their PhD program in science, allowing them to focus on their research without having to worry about funding. View more information and the full list of recipients at the HHMI website.