In the News
April 2024: Sydney Putnam awarded the Gatton Summer Research Internship Grant.
April 2024: Tobiloba Oguntoyinbo, Jada Scott, Emma Hyman, and Landon Carlton presented at the WKU Student Scholar Showcase.
March 2024: Jada Scott presented her work at the TAGC 2024 in Washington DC.
November 2023: Jada Scott selected to be an LSAMP Scholar.
October 2023: Annah Hopkins wins the "Ogden Foundation Scholar Award" and accepted into the MD program at University of Louisville.
October 2023: Dr. Srivastava appointed as an Associate Editor of the Developmental Biology section for the journal "Heliyon - a Cell Press Journal".
May 2023: Srivastava Lab Alumnus Hasan Salim - a WASH U graduate accepted into the MD program at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons. He starts this Fall.
April 2023: Lindsey Fannin defends her Honors thesis and will start Med school in the fall at UKy College of Medicine.
April 2023: Brennan McElfresh Selected by the United States Naval Academy for the incoming class of 2027.
January 2023: Dr. Srivastava awarded Ky NSF EPSCOR Research Award (RA) and Research Instrumentation and Equipment (RIE) Award.
August 2022: Krupa Hegde's paper accepted in Journal of Developmental Biology.
June 2022: Lindsey Fannin and Annah Hopkins awarded FUSE Grants.
December 2020: Krupa Hegde accepted into the undergraduate program at Yale University, class of 2025.
July 2020: Dr. Srivastava promoted to full Professor.
March 2020: Elisha VanZant wins the second prize at the poster competition at LSREF.
February 2020: Usman Salim accepted into the undergraduate program at Washington University in St. Louis, Camila Lozano accepted into the undergraduate program at University of Louisville, Elisha VanZant accepted into the joint undergraduate and dental program at University of Louisville and Saee Patwardhan accepted into the undergraduate program at New York University.
July 2019: Dr. Srivastava's grant for acquisition of a Confocal Microscope was funded by the National Science Foundation.
June 2019: Nathan Powers joins Vanderbilt University as a Research Associate.
May 2019: Dr. Srivastava joins the Editorial Board at PLOS One.
May 2019: Usman Salim receives the Faculty Undergraduate Student Engagement Grant for his research project.
April 2019: Our 2019 FEBS Letters Paper was selected as "Editor's Choice" and featured on the Front Cover.
Cover illustration: Taken from the article ‘JAK/STAT signaling is involved in air sac primordium development of Drosophila melanogaster’ by N. Powers and A. Srivastava (pp. 658–669).
March 2019: Camila Lozano, Grace McClurg, Usman Salim, Jakob Quisenberry and Elisha VanZant awarded Gatton Summer Research Internship Grants for their summer research in Srivastava Lab.
January 2019: Anas Gondal accepted into the BS program at Duke University.
December 2018: Nathan Powers defends his MS thesis and Aref Ranjbar finishes his undergraduate degree at WKU and joins as a MS student.
December 2018: Anas Gondal receives the Faculty Undergraduate Student Engagement Grant for his research project.
August 2018: Hasan Salim starts his Undergraduate program at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri.
July 2018: Sayo Aromiwura accepted into the Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine Program at Liberty University, Virginia.
April 2018: Dane Flinchum accepted into the Interdisciplinary Biomedical Sciences PhD program at Tulane University, New Orleans.
March 2018: Hasan Salim wins the best poster in his category at the WKU Student Research Conference.
March 2018: Anas Gondal, awarded a Gatton Academy Summer Research Internship Grant for summer research in the Srivastava Lab.
January 2018: Enes Atici, accepted into the MD program at University of Kentucky College of Medicine.
December 2017: Aref Ranjbar and Hasan Salim receive Faculty Undergraduate Student Engagement (FUSE) grants for their research projects.
November 2017: Nathan Powers is awarded a research grant from the WKU Graduate School for his research project.
November 2017: Sayo (Afolasayo Aromiwura) wins second place in the Graduate student talk competition (Cell and Molecular Biology Section) at the Annual Meeting of the Kentucky Academy of Science.
October 2017: Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine awarded for Circadian Rhythms Research in Drosophila melanogaster. A couple of nice articles summarizing the contributions of Drosophila.
September 2017: Dr. Srivastava Joins the Editorial Board of the Journal Scientific Reports
October 2013: An article about the Srivastava Lab in WKU News
