Archived News

December 1st 2016 - Das Lab welcomes Ph.D. student Ms. Lauren Carnevale from the Department of Biochemistry. Welcome Lauren!!

November 2016

Nov 2016- Congratulations to Will!! His first author paper was accepted in Biochemistry !!! Way to go.

Nov 2016- Das Lab welcomes Ms. Liqian Ma from MCB as rotation student. She has a deep interest in inflammation.

Nov 2016- Das Lab welcomes Mr. Andres Arango from biophysics program as rotation student. He is interested in spectroscopy.

September 2016

Sept 2016 - John Rouck's paper on the expression of Taxol P450 has been accepted by Protein Expression and Purification. Congrats John!!

Sept 2016 - Das Lab welcomes Ms. Lauren Carnevale from MCB as rotation student. She has background in Nutritional Biochemistry is interested to know how nutrients effect gene expression.

Sept 2016 - Das Lab welcomes Ms. Brittney Gorman from biophysics program as rotation student. Welcome Brittney!! She has a background in physics and is willing to explore new field of research.

August 2016

Aug 2016 - Das Lab welcomes Mr. Deok Yong Kim from Biochemistry program MCB as rotation student. Welcome Deok!! Deok has a background in protein structure and function and is open to exploring new areas of research. Deok will work on endocannabinoid metabolism.

Aug 2016- Das Lab welcomes Mr. Mayank Boob from Biophysics program as rotation student. Welcome Mayank!!. He has strong fundamental interest in "Protein Folding". He will work on the macromolecular crowding project.

July 2016 - Dr. Das has been invited to give a talk at the Microsomal and Drug Oxidation Conference at UC-Davis in October.

July 2016 - Jahnabi's first author paper in Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics is accepted. The paper is on a new drug based on DHA conjugated with aspirin. Invention Disclosure has been filed.

June 2016

June 6th 2016- William Arnold won the best speaker award at the Biophysics Symposium. Congrats Will!!

May 2016

May 5th 2016- MCB award ceremony: William & John win awards

May 2nd 2016- Mr. Amogh Kambalyal, M1 student at the UIUC medical school wins Hazel Craig Fellowship given to MD students for summer research.

April 2016

April 28th 2016- Dr. Das will be giving an invited talk at the LIPID MAPS meeting at San Diego

April 28th 2016- Dr. Das has been included in the editorial board of ChemistrySelect, a new journal by ChemPubSoc

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1002/(ISSN)2365-6549

April 26th 2016- Mr. William Arnold has been awarded Govindjee and Rajni Govindji Award for Excellence in Biological Research by Department of Biochemistry.

April 26th 2016- John Rouck, undergraduate student got highest distinction for his thesis "Cytochrome P450s involved in Taxol Biosynthesis". He is joining medical school at St. Louis University. Good Luck John!!

March 2016

March 28th 2016- Morris Animal Foundation Funds Veterinary Student Scholar Ms. Nicole Sidebotham to study the following - Elucidating the Biochemical Differences between Metastatic and Non-metastastic Canine Osteosarcoma.

March 13th 2016 - Dr. Das gave platform presentation at the Winter Eicosanoid Meeting 2016 on the formation and potential biological properties of novel omega-3 endocannabinoid epoxides.

March 13th 2016- Ms. Jahnabi Roy presented a talk and poster at the ACS-San Diego meeting.

January 2016

Jan 15th 2015- Our collaborative paper with Manus Biosynthesis with Dr. Aji Parayil was accepted in ACS-Chemical Biology. Congrats to Bradley Biggs and John Rouck who are first co-authors in the paper!!

2015

December 25th 2015 - Das Lab's collaborative paper with Dr. Andrew Smith was accepted in JACS. Congrats Dan and Sung Jun !!

December 11th 2015 - Das Lab welcomes graduate student Ms. Josephine Watson from the Department of Biochemistry. Welcome Josephine!!

December 4th 2015 - William Arnold passed his prelim exam. Congrats William!! Welcome to the second phase of Ph.D.

December 1st 2015 - Das Lab welcomes graduate student Ms. Hanna Huff from the Department of Chemistry. Welcome Hanna!!

November 9th 2015 - Das Lab joins "Center for Biophysics and Computational Biology". Biophysics is a Top Ranked Program at UIUC and in the Nation by the National Research Council.

http://illinois.edu/lb/article/5011/95128

November 1st 2015 - Das Lab welcomes rotation student Heather!!

October 1st 2015 - Das Lab welcomes rotation student Zach!!

September 22nd 2015 - Ms. Jahnabi Roy gets the prestigious graduate college travel award to reimburse her travel to ACS-San Diego to present her research on "Mammalian Membrane protein in Nanodiscs" which is recently accepted in Biochemistry. Congrats Jahnabi!!

July 29th 2015 - Our collaborative paper with Dr. Emad Tajkorshid's molecular dynamics group has been published in BBA-Biomembranes!! Congrats to Dan and Javier who are co-first authors!!

July 28th 2015 - Prof. Das is attending the Gordon Research Conference for Lipids at Waterville, NH and learning the amazing process of lipid biology.

July 19th 2015 - Our collaborative paper with Dr. Logan Liu's group is accepted in Biosensors and Bioelectronics. Congrats to Will, Manas and Lisa!!

Plucinski, L., Gartia, M., Arnold, W., Ameen, A., Chang, T., Hsiao, A., Liu, G.*, Das, A.*, "Substrate Binding to CYP2J2- Nanodiscs Detected by Nanoplasmonic Lygurcus Cup Arrays" Biosensors and Bioelectronics, 2015, In press

July 12th 2015 - Mr. Amogh Kambalyal, undergraduate in our lab starts his medical school at UIC. Amogh was the recipient of biochemistry fellowship and obtained "Highest Distinction" in his senior thesis. Congrats Amogh!!

May 25th 2015 - Das Lab gets funding for four years from American Heart Association. Go Heart!!

May 14th 2015 - Prof. Das gave lightening talk at the LIPID MAPS 2015 meeting.

May 11th 2015- John Krapf wins American Heart Association summer fellowship. Congrats John!

May 7th 2015- Daryl Meling successfully defended his Ph.D thesis !! This is the first completion of Ph.D from the lab. Congratulations Dr. Daryl Meling!!

April 29th 2015- Amogh Kambalyal and Susan Zelasko has been awarded "Highest Distinction" for their thesis. Awesome work!!

April 17th 2015- Daniel McDougle has been given prestigious 2015 Joseph O. Alberts Award for research excellence (One awarded every year in the college of veterinary medicine). Congrats Dan!!

April 10th 2015- Ms. Jahnabi Roy passed her preliminary exam in the Department of Chemistry. Congrats Jahnabi!!

Mar 31st 2015- Susan Zelasko wins the prestigious and highly competitive Fulbright Scholarship to spend a year in Poland doing research.

http://us.fulbrightonline.org/

Feb 19th 2015- William Arnold passed the qualifying exam in the Department of Biochemistry. Congrats Will!!

Feb 12th 2015- Our recently published paper is the most downloaded paper in Prostaglandin and other lipid mediators in the last 90 days.

2014

Dec 18th 2014- Das Lab wishes everyone "Happy Holidays" !!

Nov 21st 2014- Congratulations to Dan McDougle to have cleared his prospectus examination in the Department of Comparative Biosciences !!

Nov 13th 2014 Congratulations to Susan Zelasko and William Arnold !! Their review paper on Endocannabinoids has been accepted for publication in Prostaglandins and other lipid mediators.

Nov 1st 2014 - Congratulations to Dan McDougle for his first author paper in Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics!!

October 1st 2014- Congratulations to Susan Zelasko for winning the "Best Poster Award" at the Midwest Enzyme Chemistry Conference (in the undergraduate category).

September 25th 2014 - Congratulations to Daryl Meling for his first author paper in Journal of Inorganic Biochemistry !!

July 17th 2014- Congratulations to Jahnabi Roy for getting the Department of Chemistry University fellowship for research excellence!!

May 31st 2014- Congratulations to Dan McDougle for getting the American Heart Association Pre-doctoral fellowship that includes two years of full research support.

May 28th 2014- Congratulations to Dan McDougle for clearing his qualifying examination !!

May 6th 2014- Congratulations to John Rouck for getting the American Heart Association Undergraduate Fellowship !!

May 2nd 2014 - Congratulations to Amogh for getting William T. and Lynn Jackson Research Award !!

May 2nd 2014- Congratulations to John Rouck for getting MCB summer undergraduate fellowship award !!

April 23rd 2014 -Congratulations to Amogh! He has been selected as a finalist for awards given to outstanding presentations during Undergraduate Research Week.

April 8th 2014- Prof. Das will give a lightening talk at the LIPID MAPS 2014 meeting at San Diego

Feb 10th 2014- Our abstract for the Winter Eicosanoid Meeting gets the NIEHS sponsored travel award based on the scientific merit of the data presented in the abstract. Congrats Dan!!

Jan 15th 2014- Our paper with Malkowski's Lab has been accepted in Archives of Biochemistry and Biophysics

"Cyclooxygenase-2 Catalysis and Inhibition in Lipid Bilayer Nanodiscs"

Jan 8th 2014 - Our paper on thromboxane synthase has been accepted in ChemBioChem.

2013

Dec 10th 2013- Jahnabi Roy, graduate student from Chemistry (Chemical Biology Track) joins the lab!! Welcome Jahnabi

Dec 9th 2013- William Arnold, 1st year graduate student from Biochemistry joins the lab!! Welcome Will.

Nov 13th 2013- Daryl Meling passed his prelims exam in Biochemistry. Great Job Daryl!!

Nov 6th 2013- Das Lab collaboration work with Malkowski's Lab gets the "Best poster award" at the Bioactive lipids conferenceDas Lab collaboration work with Malkowski's Lab gets the "Best poster award" at the Bioactive lipids conference

Nov 4th 2013- Whitney Edwards from MCB starts her rotation. Welcome Whitney!!

Nov 3-6th 2013- Prof. Das presents at the Bioactive lipids conference at Puerto Rico

http://bioactivelipidsconf.wayne.edu/

October 30th 2013 - Prof. Das gives an invited talk at Manus Biosynthesis Boston

http://www.manusbio.com

October 1st 2013- Lu Chen from MCB started her rotation in Das lab. Welcome Lu Chen!!

September 25 2013- Prof. Das gave a talk at Eastern Illinois University.

September 11 2013- Prof. Das gave a talk at the Toxicology division at American Chemical Society.

Aug 27 2013 - William Arnold from MCB has started his rotation in Das Lab. Welcome William.

August 19 2013- Snehita Sri Varma passed her Qualifying exam in Bioengineering. Congrats Snehita!!

July 31st 2013- Prof. Das gave a talk at Cell Biology and Metabolism Program at NICHD

June 17-21 2013- Prof. Das and Daniel McDougle present posters at the 18th International Conference on Cytochrome P450 - Biochemistry, Biophysics and Biotechnology, Seattle, Washington USA

http://depts.washington.edu/p450/

May 28th 2013- Das Lab welcomes I-STEM student Mary Fiser

May 13th 2013- Susan Zelasko gets the American Heart Fellowship for Undergraduate Studies for the summer. Congrats Susan

May 4th 2013- Das Lab publishes their first paper in Protein Science. The title of the paper is "Functional Studies of N-terminally modified CYP2J2 epoxygenase in Model Lipid Bilayers". Congratulations to Amrita and Dan who are co-first authors in this paper!!

April 26th 2013- Snehita Sri Varma submits her MS (Bioengineering) thesis. Congrats Snehita!!

April 24th 2013- Ms. Susan Zelasko wins the highly competitive MCB summer fellowship.

April 24th 2013 - Prof. Das delivers a talk at the Moog Lecture Series

at the Structural Biology Center at Woodward Hauptmann Center at SUNY Buffalo.

http://www.bioinformatics.buffalo.edu/src/cmsfiles/brochures/HWI_Seminar_2012.pdf

April 23rd 2013- Daniel McDougle is awarded the block grant from the Graduate College and Department of Comparative Sciences for partial support towards his graduate studies in the year 2013-2014.

April 22nd 2013- Dr. Jackye Peretz, postdoc in Jodi Flaws Lab is going to work on the toxicological effect of environmental toxins on CYP11A1. Welcome Jackye!

April 19th, 2013- Prof. Das is giving a talk at the Phi Zeta Annual Research Day at the College of Veterinary Medicine

April 16th 2013- Christopher Mularcyzk, got "high distinction" from Molecular Cellular Biology for his senior thesis titled "Functional Studies of Thromboxane A synthase in model lipid bilayers". Congratulations Chris!!!

April 5-12, 2013 - Prof. Das attended American Chemical Society New Orleans Meeting. She got a travel award to attend this meeting.

Feb, 2013- Prof. Das was nominated to the UIUC faculty senate to represent the Department of Comparative Biosciences.

Jan 5th, 2013 - Amogh Kambalyal, MCB sophomore joins Das lab, UIUC.

2012

Dec 4th, 2012- Prof. Das becomes an affiliate faculty in the Department of Bioengineering, UIUC.

http://bioengineering.illinois.edu/directory/faculty

October 26th, 2012 - Snehita Sri Varma and Daniel McDougle presented posters at the molecular biology training grant symposium.

http://biophysics.illinois.edu/grant/symposium.html

October 13th, 2012- Daryl Meling, Snehita Sri Varma and Daniel McDougle are presenting posters at the Midwest Enzyme Conference.

http://www.uic.edu/orgs/MECC2012/Welcome.html

October 5th 2012- Das Lab receives grant from Research Board. Here is the announcement

http://crb.research.illinois.edu/content/ResearchBoardAwardsAlt.aspx

September 14th 2012- Prof. Das is selected as the campus nominee for Pew Scholars program. Here is the news item from Beckman Bulletin.

Aug 26th 2012- Susan Zelasko, sophomore MCB joins Das lab. Welcome Susan.

Aug 15th 2012- Das Lab welcomes Daniel McDougle as a new graduate student this fall. He has obtained MS in Biotechnology from University of Utah and has been working at Neuroadjuvents Inc for the past three years.

Aug 8th 2012- Prof. Das talk at the Biophotonics summer school in available in the web.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V56VnrLHaZc&feature=em-share_video_user

July 30th 2012 - Pablo received the "Outstanding Scientific Leadership Award" at the SROP -minority student research program. Congrats Pablo!!

July 26th 2012- Summer research program students Yarelis and Pablo present their posters at the Illinois Summer Research Symposium which brings together people who are under-represented to do summer research at Illinois. Here are the posters.

http://www.istem.illinois.edu/news/HSResearch2012.html

July 11th 2012- We bid farewell to Amrita. Her research went well and she is going to submit her first paper from Das lab. She is moving to MCB UMass-Amherst for family reasons. Good luck Amrita.

July 10th 2012- Daryl Meling joins Das lab as a graduate student from Department of Biochemistry. Welcome Daryl.

May 19th 2012- Prof. Das gave an invited talk at the Biophotonics summer school. The title of her talk is -Nanophotonic detection of drug binding to cytochrome P450 using localized surface plasmon resonance spectroscopy-

May 7th 2012- Summer SROP students Pablo Marrero and Yarelis Dumeng are going to work in Das lab in the summer. They are joining use from University of Puerto Rico Aguadilla. http://www.grad.illinois.edu/srop

May 6th 2012- Summer I-STEM student Sherry Qiu from Uni-High is going to work in the laboratory from May 29 to June 22.

May 4th, 2012- Susan Zelasko, MCB Sophomore joins Das Lab and will be starting in Fall 2012. She will be working on biochemistry of cytochrome P450s.

April 15, 2012- Daniel McDougle accepted a position in the Medical Scholar Program (MD/Ph.D) and Comparative Biosciences department and is joining Das Lab in Fall 2012. He has MS (Biotechnology) from University of Utah and is currently working at Neuroadjuvents Inc.

April 5, 2012- Das lab has been included in the Interdisciplinary Environmental Toxicology Program. Here is the link.

http://vetmed.illinois.edu/ietp/

Mar 26, 2012- We successfully made several constructs of CYP2J2 to get excellent expression of P450s. Congrats Amrita !!

Feb 18, 2012- We successfully expressed thromboxane synthase (CYP5A1) in our laboratory and incorporated the protein into Nanodiscs. Congrats Snehita !!

Feb 3, 2012- CARY spectrophotometer is all set up. We are all set up to analyze our newly expressed proteins.

Jan 26, 2012- Our COY Glove Box is set up. Thanks to Rebecca from Key scientific.

Jan 16, 2012- Christopher Mularczyk, MCB junior joins Das Lab. He will be working on understanding the role of lipids in P450 function.

Jan 9, 2012- Daryl Meling joins Das Lab as a collaborator from Prof. Hoffman's group.

Jan 2, 2012- Amrita Palaria, biochemistry Ph.D student joins Das Lab.

Jan 1, 2012- Das lab wishes happy new year to their friends and collaborators.

2011

Dec 21, 2011- Aditi gives invited talk at TIFR Bombay on Membrane bound cytochrome P450s. Her host is Prof. Shymalava Majumdar.

Dec 20, 2011- Aditi gives invited talk at I.I.T. (Bombay), Department of Chemistry. Her how is Prof. Arindam Chowdhury and Prof. Ruchi Anand

Dec 14, 2011- Aditi becomes an affiliate faculty in the Department of Biochemistry, School of MCB.

Dec 11, 2011- Aditi is featured in Vetnews

http://vetmed.illinois.edu/ilvetnews/

SPOTLIGHT ON COMPARATIVE BIOSCIENCES

Welcome Dr. Aditi Das

Dr. Aditi Das first came to Illinois when, after completing her PhD in Chemistry from Princeton University, she began postdoctoral research with Dr. Stephen Sligar at the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology. Now, the new assistant professor of comparative biosciences is a Beckman Institute affiliate.

Much of her research focuses on the membrane proteins that produce pain and inflammation responses and are key pharmaceutical targets. A current study explores the use of nanostructure scaffolding to maintain the integrity of the membrane proteins cells so can be more easily examined. As a biochemist, Dr. Das says interdisciplinary opportunities at Illinois have a strong appeal. An additional advantage of a being at a veterinary college is that collaboration on animal models can address the need for better pain medication in a variety of species.

Dr. Das, who is herself allergic to ibuprofen, is well aware of the potential benefits of her work, which could lead to the reduction or elimination of side effects, and improved precision in dosages.

Currently at work setting up her lab, Dr. Das looks forward to working with graduate students as well as co-teaching in the professional curriculum.

Dec 8, 2011- Aditi gives invited talk at I.I.T. Delhi, Department of Chemistry. Her host is Prof. Sameer Sapra.

Nov 28,2011- Aditi becomes an affiliate faculty at the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology. She is part of the 3D Micro- and Nanosystems research group in the Molecular and Electronics Nanostructures (M&ENS) and HABITS theme.

Nov 17, 2011- Eric Magnetta, MCB undergraduate junior joins Das lab. He will be working on the bacterial mimic of epoxygenase, the CYP102 F87V mutant.

Nov 15, 2011- Snehita Sri Varma, graduate student at the Department of Bioengineering joins Das lab as a research assistant. She will be working on mechanistic understanding of thromboxane synthase.

Oct 15, 2011- Dr. Aditi Das established a new research Lab, Laboratory of Membrane Bound Metallo-enzymes at the University of Illinois Urbana Champaign, Department of Comparative Biosciences.

Das Joins Beckman Institute

Published Monday, November 28, 2011

Aditi Das is a new faculty member at the Beckman Institute in the 3D Micro- and Nanosystems group. She will also be a member of the new initiative called Health: Attitudes, Biology, Information, Technology, Society (HABITS). Das earned a Ph.D. from Princeton in Chemistry and did postdoctoral research with Beckman faculty memberStephen Sligar. She is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Comparative Biosciences whose research investigates membrane proteins using biophysical techniques.