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06.05.25 || Sihang is recognized as the 2025 recipient of the Julie and David Mead Graduate Student Fellowship, congratulations Sihang!
05.30.25 || Jenny, Rajendra, Sihang and Simon presented their work at the 2025 OddPols International Conference on Transcription by RNA polymerases I, III, IV, and V. Congratulations Simon Lizarazo on receiving the best poster award!
05.14.25 || Junmeng and Leela officially graduate from MCB and the Univ. of Illinois!
05.08.25 || Simon presented his work at the Molecular and Integrative Physiology (MIP) Retreat and received the MIP graduate student talk award!
02.24.25 || Rajendra presented his work mapping Pol III binding and protein-prortein interactions at the CSHL Innovators Symposium
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12.18.24 || Rajendra passes Biophysics preliminary exam
11.16.24 || Jenny, Rajendra, Sihang and Simon presented their work at the Cell and Developmental Biology (CDB) Retreat. Congratulations Simon Lizarazo on receiving a flash talk award, and to Sihang Zhou for receiving a CDB graduate student seminar award!
11.07.24 || Rajendra's study on Pol III activity at protein-coding gene promoters is officially published at Molecular Cell, congratulations Rajendra and to all co-authors!
https://www.cell.com/molecular-cell/abstract/S1097-2765(24)00771-8
* check out this MCB research highlight written by Jeni Bushman: https://mcb.illinois.edu/news/2024-10-10/asking-big-questions-ui-researchers-illuminate-transcriptional-interplay-among-rna
10.18.24 || Jenny, Rajendra, Sihang and Simon presented their work at the 2024 Rustbelt RNA Meeting in Newark, Ohio. Nice job Rajendra K C on an abstract-selected talk!
08.26.24 || Undergraduate students Divya Choudhary and Junmeng Yuan join us from Molecular & Cellular Biology (MCB)
07.10.24 || Grace He departs to start her graduate studies at the University of Texas at Austin
07.03.24 || Sihang's study (preprint) on snaR-A ncRNA activity in cancer is online at bioRxiv!
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.07.02.601767v1
06.08.24 || Rajendra's study (preprint) on Pol III activity at protein-coding gene promoters is online at bioRxiv!
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.06.08.598009v1
06.01.24 || Marco Penaherrera's joins our team to investigate Pol III protein interactions as a summer visiting scholar from the Universidad San Francisco in Quito, Ecuador
05.07.24 || Simon presented his work exploring Pol III dynamics across tissues at the CSHL Biology of Genomes Meeting at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
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11.11.23 || Jenny, Rajendra, Sihang and Simon presented their work at the Cell and Developmental Biology (CDB) Department Retreat at Allerton
11.02.23 || Anshita and Leela presented their undergraduate research at the MCB Undergraduate Research Symposium! Congratulations Leela Mouli on receiving the School of MCB Director's Award for Exceptional Research Presentation!
10.15.23 || Our study of predicted regulatory features underlying POLR3G expression is published in a special issue on RNA polymerase I and III in Cancer. Congratulations first authors Jenny and Sihang and the rest of the team!
https://www.mdpi.com/2072-6694/15/20/4995
05.15.23 || Undergraduate student David Condroski joins us from Computer Science (CS) and Jamie Im joins us from Chemistry
05.09.23 || Rajendra passes Biophysics qualifying exam
05.01.23 || Anshita and Leela receive MCB Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowships (SURFs)
04.10.23 || Sihang passes CDB preliminary exam
04.04.23 || Jenny passes CDB preliminary exam
02.08.23 || Sihang's review on the Pol III transcriptome is published in WIREs RNA!
https://wires.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/wrna.1782
01.12.23 || Jenny's mini-review on Pol III RPC7 subunits (POLR3G and POLR3GL) is published in Frontiers Molecular Biosciences!
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmolb.2022.1073795/full
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10.22.22 || Sihang and Jenny present their work at the CDB Cell and Developmental Biology Retreat, congratulations Sihang Zhou on winning a flash talk award!
09.01.22 || Graduate student Simon Lizarazo joins us from Molecular and Integrative Physiology (MIP); Undergraduate students Anshita Jayanth and Leela Mouli join us from Molecular & Cell Biology (MCB)
01.12.22 || Graduate student Rajendra K C joins us from the Center for Biophysics & Quantitative Biology (CBQB)
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11.01.21 || Hello World from the Van Bortle Lab. Graduate students Sihang Zhou and Ruiying (Jenny) Cheng join us from Molecular & Cell Biology (MCB)