Lab News
Lab News
2026
May
Two CMB PhD students, Petra Veljkovic and Chenghao Wang, joined the lab. Welcome!
Our collaboration with Leigh Knodler's group at UVM (titled: SLC11A2 withholds divalent metals from Salmonella in the gut epithelium) was accepted at PNAS! I am excited to be a part of this work.
April
Laura Grasso received the 2026 Vermont Space Grant Consortium Fellowship from NASA! Congratulations!
Madison Fountain (Honors College student) successfully wrote and defended a Distinguished Undergraduate Research Fellowship!
2025
December
CMB student Chengaho Wang joined us for a rotation. He will be working on peroxisome dynamics across multiple cell types.
September
Two undergraduates Stanley Chan (sophomore) and Kai Dirksen (freshmen STEM Scholar) officially joined the lab. Welcome!
August
Laura Grasso (NGP) student officially joined the lab! She will be working on acyl-coA binding proteins and peroxisome movement in cellular and neuronal development!
Our paper on ER hitchhiking, published in January at MBoC received the MBoC paper of the year award! Congratulations to first-authors Allison Langley and Sarah Abeling-Wang for this amazing honor.
Our Aspergillus paper (Driscoll et al., 2025) has now been accepted at MBoC! Congratulations to first author Bellana Driscoll and second author Madison Fountain, as well as other members of the Salogiannis lab and Jenna Christensen's lab at Northwestern.
July
John was selected as an Early Career Editorial Board member at Molecular Biology of the Cell https://www.ascb.org/mboc-early-career-editor-profiles/
April
Our preprint manuscript is now up on BioRxiv! A study led by Bellana Driscoll (lab technician) and an undergraduate in the lab Madison Fountain identified a novel Acyl-coA binding protein (AcbdA) critical for peroxisome movement (via hitchhiking). https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.04.17.649231v1.full.pdf+html
Sarah Tammariello (Biology undergraduate) received a Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) award from UVM!
Madison Fountain (MMG undergraduate) received a UVM Cancer Center Summer Research Fellowship award!
February
Allison Langley (formerly Morrissey) was selected to be a part of the Vermont Center for Immunobiology and Infectious Disease (VCIID) T32. She will study the mechanisms of fatty acid utilization in the filamentous fungi Aspergillus nidulans! Congratulations Ally.
2024
November
Our paper on ER hitchhiking has been accepted and will be published in January in Molecular Biology of the Cell and will be highlighted in the January Issue! Congratulations to Allison, Sarah, and Erinn for an awesome job.
September
Ella Sarama joined the lab and is working with Sarah Abeling on microtubule-binding proteins and microtubule-based transport in neurons. Welcome Ella!
August
Bellana gave an excellent talk at the Plant and Microbial Cytoskeleton Gordon Research Seminar! What an amazing conference.
July
Bellana received a UVM Staff United Professional Development Award to attend and present her work on peroxisome hitchhiking and fatty acid sensing in Aspergillus nidulans at the Plant and Microbial GRC. Congratulations!
May -
Our lab's first preprint is out! https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.05.14.592021v1.full.pdf+html
January-
Sarah Tammariello, a Biology undergraduate officially joined the lab. Welcome Sarah!
2023
December
Ally gave an awesome talk at ASCB minisymposium in Boston!
November
Bellana Driscoll officially joined the lab as a full time technician, continuing to work on Aspergillus peroxisome hitchhiking!
October
The lab is officially NIH-funded. Our 5-year R35/MIRA award started this month!
September
Ally Morrissey received the LCOM Student Research Showcase award for the Junior Division. Congratulations!
August -
John received the CMB Director's Award "In recognition of extraordinary dedication to the CMB program by a faculty member." Thank you to Dr. Matt Poynter for the honor!
July
Ally Morrissey completed her Phase II exam with flying colors! She is officially a PhD candidate.
May
Bellana defended her Honors College thesis with flying colors!
April
Erinn Wagner received a SURF Award (https://www.uvm.edu/four/internal-undergraduate-research-funding) for undergraduate research in the lab this summer! She will be working on hitchhiking in mammalian cells.
March -
Amila Semic (CMB PhD student) joined us for a rotation! She will be working on LRRK2.
January
Christian Arnsten (Neuroscience PhD student) is currently rotating in the lab. Welcome!
MMG Honors College Undergraduate Student Madison Fountain joined the lab and will be working on Aspergillus and intracellular motility.
2022
November
Congrats to Sarah for First Place Poster Presentation at our MPBP Department retreat at the Von Trapp Family Lodge in Stowe, VT.
Congratulations to Ally for being awarded runner-up in the Graduate Student Research Showcase!
May
CMB graduate student Ally Morrissey has officially joined the lab!
April
Bianca Labuschagne received the SURF Award (https://www.uvm.edu/four/internal-undergraduate-research-funding) to perform research in the lab this summer.
March
CMB student Ally Morrissey started rotating in the lab. She will be working on LRRK2's role in neurons. Welcome!
Erinn Wagner joined the lab as an undergraduate researcher. She will be working on a mutagenesis screen in Aspergillus.
January
Our spinning disk CSU-X1 confocal has been installed and ready to go!
Bianca Labuschagne joined the lab as an undergraduate researcher! She will be working on adaptor-mediated transport of dynein.
2021
November
Sarah Abeling joined the lab as a research technician. Welcome Sarah!
October
Bellana Driscoll will be writing an undergraduate honors college thesis in the lab! She will work on molecular mechanisms of microtubule-based transport in Aspergillus.
August
The Salogiannis Lab opened its doors at the Larner College of Medicine at the University of Vermont!