March 2024: Lab Celebrates Turning 5!
Lab Outings
June 2023: Farewell Party for Sruchi. Good luck Sruchi for your future endeavors!
Oct 2022: Farewell Party for Daisy. Good luck Daisy on all your future endeavors!
Oct 2020: Farewell party for Piyali. We wish Piyali the best in her future endeavours!
UIC Undergraduate Research Forum (URF) Presentations
URF '24
Presenters Listed: Diya Dileep, Rachel Shi, Jalen Aguilar, Alishba Zahoor, Vishvetha Rengaraju
Alishba Zahoor
Jalen Aguilar
Rachel Shi
Diya Dileep
Vishvetha Rengaraju
URF '23
Presenters Listed: Alex Orlowski, Nitya Chagoor, Rachel Shi, Athirai Ambikkumar, Shraddha Ghanta
Alex Orlowski
Rachel Shi
Shraddha Ghanta
Athirai Ambikkumar
Nitya Chagoor
Virtual Lab Meetings During Covid Pandemic
Staying Connected and Informed! Virtual Journal Club and Lab meetings during Shelter in place (April 2020)
New Beginnings
September 2023- Yash Vijay joins the lab as an Undergraduate Research assistant. Welcome!
June 2023- Jalen Aguilar and Jose Saltos join the lab as Undergraduate Research assistants. Welcome!
June 2023- Mia Krout joins the lab as a Post-Doctoral Researcher. Welcome!
February 2023- Arnav Shandilya, Vishvetha Rengaraju, and Rana Hasan join the lab as Undergraduate Research assistants. Welcome!
January 2023- Jean-Michel Paumier joins the lab as a Post-Doctoral Researcher. Welcome!
June 2022- Diya Dileep joins the lab as an Undergraduate Research assistants. Welcome!
February 2022 - Shraddha Ghanta, Alishba Zahoor, and Athirai Ambikummar join the lab as Undergraduate Research assistants. Welcome!
Jan 2021- Nitya Chagoor and Alex Orlowski join the lab as Undergraduate Research assistants. Welcome Nitya and Alex!
Jan 2021- Ricardo Linares , high-school volunteer, joins the team during his gap year to work on a 6-month project. Welcome Ricardo!
Aug 2020- Amanda Snead (MSTP program) joins the lab for her PhD! Welcome Amanda!
Aug 2020- Joseph Karippaparambil and Srujana Arra join the lab as Undergraduate Research assistants. Welcome Joseph and Srujana!
Grants
Spring 2022- Alishba Zahoor, Athirai Ambikumar, and Diya Dileep win Honors College Research Grants. Congrats!
Spring 2021+Fall 2022 -Alex Orlowski and Nitya Chagoor win Honors College Research Grants. Congrats!
Dec 2020- Joseph Karippaparambil receives an Honors College Research Grants. Congrats Joseph!
Oct 2020-Sruchi Patel receives the Honors College Research Grant. Congrats Sruchi!
Jan 2021- Swetha Gowrishankar receives Research Grant from the Wolverine Foundation to study modulation of autophagy in MAPK8IP3 mutant neurons.
Graduations
Dec 2020- Congrats to Sruchi Patel and Eduardo Pallares on their graduation!!
Jan 2021- Lab publishes its first paper, "Lysosome Function and Dysfunction in Hereditary Spastic Paraplegias", by Daisy Edmison, Luyu Wang and Swetha Gowrishankar in Brain Sciences. Congrats to Daisy on her first paper and to Luyu (Judy Wang) a former MSTP rotation student for her contribution.