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Susmita Kaushik PhD, was invited speaker at the Kern Lipid Conference in Vail, August 2023

Susmita Kaushik PhD, was invited speaker at  the Grace Science Foundation  in San Francisco, November 2022

Susmita Kaushik PhD, was invited speaker at "Into the Lipiverse" Symposium organized by Rutgers University , November 2022

Susmita Kaushik PhD, was invited speaker at the Gordon Conference on Autophagy where she presented her work on CMA and adipogenesis, Ventura, CA , March 2022

Susmita Kaushik PhD, was invited to present her work as plenary speaker at the 2022 Deuel Conference on Lipids,  Coronado, CA , March 2022

Susmita Kaushik PhD, was promoted to Research Assistant Professor of the Department of Developmental and Molecular Biology, May 2021

Susmita Kaushik PhD, was awarded a research grant from Grace Science Foundation to study the status of autophagy in NGLY1 deficiency diseases, January 2021.

Susmita Kaushik PhD, was invited to present her work at the NYC Lipid Club at Columbia University, May 2019

Susmita Kaushik PhD, received a poster award at the Regional Diabetes Symposium, May 2019

Rebecca Sereda, presented her work as oral presentaion at the NYAS symposium "Targeting Molecular Mechanisms of Aging", May 2023

Rebecca Sereda, was selected for oral presentaiton of her work at the Norteasth Grlenn Symposium on Aging.  Yale University, November 2022

Rebecca Sereda passed  her qualifying exam with HONORS!, Spring 2022

Adrian Martin, Ph.D., was awarded the very prestigious Marie Curie Award to continue his research program in the IMDEA in Madrid, Spain

Adrian Martin, Ph.D., was awarded a prestigious postdoctoral fellowship from the Fundacion Ramon Areces to carry on his studies on the Interplay between Chaperone-mediated autophagy and Parkinson's disease pathogenesis,  July  2019

Rabia Khawaja  was invited to present her work in  a plenary session at the  Keystone conference on Autophagy and Neurodegeneration (March 2023)

Rabia Khawaja was  was selected as Fellow Coordinator of the Keystone conference on Autophagy and Neurodegeneration (March 2023)

Mericka McCabe, was selected as a delegate to participate in the Advocacy Training Program of the ASBMB (summer 2023)

Mericka McCabe,  was invited as an expert in a pannel discussion on methods to therapeutically target autophagy organized by WIA

Mericka McCabe, short presentation was awarded the first prize at the Einstein Cancer Center Retreat,  November  2022

Greg Krause, PhD received the Murmur Award for his thesis work on endosomal microautophagy and aging

Maryam Jafari, MS was the fellow chair of the 2nd Annual Women in Autophagy symposium, November 2021

Maryam Jafair and Mericka McCabe,  successfully passed their qualifying exams, Spring 2019

Aurora Scrivo PhD, was selected from the abstracts submission as oral presentation at the Gordon Conference on Autophagy where she presented her work on  non-cell autonomous regulation of CMA in neurons, Ventura, CA , March 2022

Aurora Scrivo PhD has received  Maria Zambrano grant for attraction of international talent and will be moving to Barcelona to continue her pioneering work on proteostasis in astrocytes, July , 2022

Mathieu Bourdenx PhD, was awared a "Position Jeunes Chercheurs 2020" grant from the la Fondation Alzheimer et la Fondation de France to return to France and initiate a project on "Autophagy Oragnelle-associated Tau Strains"

Mathieu Bourdenx PhD, is the co-Chair of the 2020 Gordon Research Seminar on Autophagy, March 7-8, Ventura CA 

Mathieu Bourdenx PhD, was invited to present his work at the UTSA conference at San Antonio, TX, February 2019

Mathieu Bourdenx PhD, presented his work at the 4th Annual Northeastern Glenn Symposium, November 2018

Mathieu Bourdenx PhD,  presented his work at the 143rd Annual Meeting of the American Neurological Association, October 2018

Shuxian Dong PhD, was appointed Assistant Professor at Shanghai Jiaotong University, China. 

Shuxian Dong PhD,  study on the role of CMA in hematopoiesis was published in Nature,  January 2021 

Shuxian Dong PhD,  was selected to present her work at the 2020 Gordon Research Seminar on Autophagy, Ventura, CA, March 2020 

Shuxian Dong PhD, received one of the Dennis Shields Postdoctoral Poster Prizes, June 2019

Shuxian Dong PhD, received the 2019 ASH Abstract Achievement Award and will be presenting her work as oral presentation in the upcoming meeting, December 2019

Raquel Gomez-Sintes PhD, was awarded a prestigious grant for Jovenes Investigadores del Plan Nacional, Spain to continue her studies on retinal degeneration in Parkinson's Disease, May 2019

Esperanza Arias PhD, has been promoted to Assistant Professor of the Department of Medicine (Hepatology) at the  Albert Einstein College of Medicine, where she will continue her pioneering studies in CMA and cancer, July 2018