LAB NEWS

Pak Lab at ENDO2025!

Pak Lab returned to the west coast but this time ton San Francisco for the national Endocrine Society 2025 Conference! Surrounded by international clinicians, physicians and scientists all delving deeper into endocrinology and its effect on the body! Yoldas also presented an oral abstract. Ever so grateful to Dr Pak for bringing us to this amazing conference that sparked a lot of future experiments! Back in the lab we go...

July 2025

Angela's First Author Paper is Published!

Our paper - "Ethanol induces subcellular trafficking of the RNA-binding protein, hnRNP A1, in neuronal cells in vitro, but not in the peripubertal rat brain" was published in Biology Open!

Check it out here: DOI: 10.1242/bio.062010

July 2025

Pak Lab at RNA 2025

Some of the Pak Lab members took short flight over to the west coast to sunny San Diego for RNA 2025 Conference! As usual, the conference was filled with amazing RNA science and we are full of notes, experimental ideas and exciting projects from our meeting! Thank you to our amazing PI who continues to take us around the country (and world) to be enriched with amazing science!

June 2025

Yoldas' 1st First Author Paper Published!

Our paper - "Gelsolin Facilitates Estrogen Receptor Beta Nuclear Translocation and Transcriptional Repression of Genes Associated with Alzheimer Disease" was published in Receptors!

Check it out here: DOI: 10.3390/receptors4020010

May 2025

Pak Lab at St Alberts Day

Loyola University Chicago hosts St Alberts Day every year where Graduate and Medical Students share the research they have been conducting over the last year. This year we had posters from our PhD Students and our Summer Medical Students Marissa & Kate!

October 2024

Pak Lab Takes SfN (Society for Neuroscience)!!!

The Pak lab was fortunate enough to attend Society for Neuroscience (SfN) conference hosted in our home city of Chicago! We had the honor of presenting some of our research with posters from Karla & Brittney and Yoldas!

September 2024

CONGRATULATIONS TO ANGELA FAN for passing her Comprehensive Qualifying Exams and advancing onto candidacy! She is now officially Angela Fan, PhD Candidate!

August 2024

RNA Day (AUG 1st) is extra special because its also Dr Toni Pak's Birthday! Any excuse to have sweet treats and fill her office with decorations and balloons! Thank you for being the best mentor to all of us Dr Pak!

August 2024

Special Congratulations to PhD Student Angela Fan, who won 1st place at the RNA Society Poster Presentation Prize Competition in Edinburgh! Look out soon for her manuscript outlining the amazing work she has been conducting in the lab!

June 2024

The Pak Lab was fortunate enough to attend the RNA Society 2024 Meeting in Edinburgh, Scotland! We had poster presentations from Karla, Sarah & Angela! Angela took home the prize for Best Poster!

June 2024

This summer we welcome Kate Sievers (M1 Medical Student) and Rujuta Durwas (Rising Junior at Loyola) as our summer students conducting exciting research in our lab!

June 2024

Rujuta is from Bloomington, IL and is currently a Biology major on the Pre-Med Track at Loyola. In her spare time she enjoys lifting, dancing & painting.

Kate is from Irvine, CA and is currently a 2nd year medical student at Loyola Stritch School of Medicine. In her spare time she enjoys trying new restaurants, exploring the world, gardening, dogs.

We are so excited to welcome Marisa Kutchma, MD/PhD Student to the Pak Lab!!! We cant wait to have our very own resident doctor in training to help us cure all our problems :D

May 2024

We are so excited to welcome Brittney Visser, 1st year PhD Student,to the Pak Lab!!! We cant wait to see the amazing science she will produce with the rest of the team!

January 2024

Our paper is published in Non - Coding RNA and is selected to be on the cover! Check it out - DOI: 10.3390/ncrna9060074

December 2023

Congratulations to Dr. Toni Pak on winning Senior Scientist of the Year!

October 2023

Congratulations to Yoldas on successfully passing his qualifying exam!

Yoldas Yildiz, Ph.D. Candidate (August 2023)

June 2023

Angela and Mikayla presenting their work on adolescent alcohol exposure and hnRNP A1

Research Society on Alcoholism annual meeting, Bellevue, WA

Congratulations to Mikayla on successfully passing her qualifying exam!

Mikayla Newby, Ph.D. Candidate (July 2022)

Congratulations to Dr. Chun Kim - winner of the Council of Graduate School Programs Biomedical Sciences Dissertation of the Year Award for his dissertation and research entitled “Estrogen regulation of mir-9-5p and mir-9-3p in the aging female brain”.

May 2021

May 2020

Check out our latest publication in eNeuro!

July 2018

We welcome a new post-doc into the lab! Dr. Jennifer Chang recently completed her PhD at Rosalind Franklin University and published her work in a Molecular Therapy article titled Targeting Amyloid-β Precursor Protein, APP, Splicing with Antisense Oligonucleotides Reduces Toxic Amyloid-β Production. Check out the article, and welcome to the team Jennifer!

June 2018

Our recent study, part of the dissertation work of Dr. Andie Asimes, was just published in the Journal of the Endocrine Society, and Endocrine News published a nice review of the work! Check out the news story here, and for the full publication, visit the JES website.

May 2018

Congratulations to Dr. Toni Pak who has been named the James R. DePauw Professor and Chair of the Department of Cell and Molecular Physiology! See the official announcement from Dr. Steven Goldstein here.

March 2018

Last week we attended the Chicago Society for Neuroscience annual meeting and had a blast! Andie Asimes presented her recently defended dissertation work as part of the graduate student symposium and won SECOND PLACE!

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