We’re excited to share that Dani has been awarded a T32 trainee fellowship! This recognition not only celebrates Dani’s hard work and potential, but it will also help launch an amazing graduate school journey ahead. Well done!
Congratulations Dr. Theresa Wechsler! A freshly minted PhD from the UC Davis BMCDB program. Next stop: Seattle and the Fred Hutch Cancer Center for a postdoc, where she’ll trade California sunshine for rain, amazing science, and perhaps a few too many flannel shirts and some great coffee.
Big cheers to Mirjam & Sydney, UC Davis V&E Master’s graduates! From juice stains, MOG, to harvest research chaos, they’ve mastered the science, the art, and the swirl, so they’re ready for release—watch out, wine world! 🍇🥂
Congratulations to Breanne for her selection for a NIH Postdoctoral Individual National Research Service Award (F32)! These highly competitive awards support the training of promising postdoctoral candidates who have the potential to become productive, independent investigators. With this support Breanne is performing research to define core principles of mRNA packaging, including common RNA arrangements used to modulate nuclear packaging and/or export, and their regulation by RNA-binding proteins.
We are excited to see the tremendous efforts of Dr. Ryuta Asada published. The most significant piece of work to come from my group to date, he demonstrates compositional heterogeneity of single mRNPs and plasticity across different growth conditions, defines the major co-occupants of nuclear mRNPs, and shows a function for Yra1 in nuclear mRNP packaging. Data that provides a quantitative framework for gene- and condition-dependent RBP occupancy and stoichiometry in individual nuclear mRNPs.
Ben was recently able to attend a conference on mRNP structure and function in Rome (yes, life is hard) where he shared recently published data from Dr. Ryuta Asada in the lab. The science was great, as was the art, culture, food, and friendly company. We cannot wait for the next time this meeting is held.
Congratulations to Arvind for receiving his PhD and publishing a paper in eLife describing a new mode of regulation for the DEAD-box ATPase Dbp5 by structured RNAs and Gle1. Arvind is now headed to the Bay Area and the next phase of his career. We wish him well and look forward to the great science he will do!
Theresa received two pieces of good news this past month. First, she was awarded a Ruth L. Kirschstein Predoctoral Individual National Research Service Award (F31) to explore the connection between disease linked mutations and gene expression outcomes using yeast as a model system. Second, Theresa was selected to give a talk at the CSHL Eukaryotic mRNA Processing meeting on her work describing co-transcritional mRNP assembly using live cell imaging. Both amazing accomplishments, congratulations Theresa!
