Lab news
2022
September - Dr. Chung is leaving CUA to become a scientific review office at the NIH Center for Scientific Review. Thank you to all those who contributed to the Chung lab research over the years. Although Dr. Chung is leaving, Ahmed will stay on to finish the K19/breast cancer project.
June - The Chung lab receives an REAP/R15 grant from the NIH! Yay, we can do research for another three years!
May - Congrats to Sarah T for receiving the Academic Excellence award from the Department! Best of luck at George Washington on graduate school!
April - Congrats to Chelsea for being named a finalist for the best poster award at the University Research day!
https://research-day.catholic.edu/browse/2022/view.html?p056
March - Congrats to Asma for your new baby! We can't wait to see your daughter (and you again of course) in person!
January - Narbada joins the lab! And Asma promises to join in 2023. Welcome aboard!
2021
August - Thanks to the efforts of all former and current members of the lab, the University promoted Dr. Chung as an Associate Professor with Tenure!
August - Pooja's latest research manuscript paper gets accepted in Molecular Biology of the Cell! And chosen by the Editorial Board as one of Highlights! Congrats Pooja!
June - Congrats to Beth McElhiney (Class of 2019) for being accepted to the Texas Tech University Health Science Center Paul L Foster School of Medicine!
April - Pooja successfully defended her thesis! With Distinction! Congrats Dr. Sharma!
February - Congrats to Pooja for receiving the B.T.DeCicco Excellence in Research Award from the department!
January - Pooja was named the Joseph McLaughlin Meritorious Award in Biomedical Science by the Cosmos Club Foundation! Congratulations!
January - Congrats to Brooke Panzarella (Class of 2019) for being accepted to the Touro College of Osteopathic Medicine!
January - Sarah's research manuscript gets accepted in Cell Adhesion and Migration! Congrats Sarah!
January - Ahmed joins the lab! First male Ph.D. student! Welcome aboard!
2020
December - Arwa successfully defended her thesis! Congrats Dr. Fallatah!
August - Pooja's Sharma and Lam et al., "Tracking Single Cells Motility on Different Substrates" published in Methods & Protocols. It's also selected as a cover article!
July - Sarah successfully defended her thesis and became a first PhD graduate of the lab! Congrats Dr. Alsharif!
May - Pooja's accolades are piling on. Congrats for winning the judges’ choice for best presentation at the ASBMB virtual flash talk competition!
https://www.facebook.com/72858500029/posts/10158389874765030/?d=n&substory_index=0
https://www.instagram.com/p/CAGus0wIen2/?igshid=18qjubq8qde3h
https://twitter.com/asbmb/status/1260338086799605763?s=21
April - Congrats to Pooja for being awarded GSA Dissertation Fund from the CUA!
April - Congrats Pooja! Her PhD dissertation topic proposal was approved by a unanimous vote at the faculty meeting. One step closer to graduation!
March - Pooja's Lam and Sharma et al., "Morphology, motility, and cytoskeletal architecture of breast cancer cells depend on keratin 19 and substrate" accepted in Cytometry A!
February - Congrats to Sarah for your new baby! This one's going to be hard to top!
February - Congrats to Pooja for being selected for “Science in a Flash” communication competition at the annual ASBMB conference!
February - Congrats to Pooja for receiving "The Graduate Student Travel Award" for the annual ASBMB conference!
2019
November - Congrats Sarah! Her PhD dissertation topic proposal was approved by a unanimous vote at the faculty meeting. One step closer to graduation!
October - Dr. Chung gave a talk at the biology club’s inaugural get together:
http://cuatower.com/2019/10/biology-club-invites-guest-speaker-dr-byung-min-justin-chung/
October - Congrats Arwa! Her PhD dissertation topic proposal was approved by a unanimous vote at the faculty meeting. One step closer to graduation!
October - First research paper from the lab, Pooja's Sharma et al., "Keratin 19 regulates cell cycle pathway and sensitivity of breast cancer cells to CDK inhibitors" published in Scientific Reports!
May - Thanks to Pooja, Sarah, and Arwa, we have a first publication from the lab: Sharma et al., "Intermediate Filaments as Effectors of Cancer Development and Metastasis: A Focus on Keratins, Vimentin, and Nestin" published in Cells.
April - Congrats to Karina for being a finalist for the best poster award and Pooja for winning it at the University Research day!
https://communications.catholic.edu/news/2019/04/research-day.html
February - Congrats to Karina Bursch (class of 2019) for being accepted to an MD/PhD program at the Medical College of Wisconsin!
2018
October - Congrats to Pooja for receiving the Roland M. Nardone Teaching Excellence Award from the department!
July - The Chung lab receives an AREA/R15 grant from the NIH!
https://communications.catholic.edu/news/2018/06/biology-grants.html
January - Congrats to Sarah Maffei (class of 2017) for being accepted into the NYU dental school!
2016
January - Arwa joins the lab and research gets underway at the Chung lab!