barmada lab - Events

The short and long of it

12/22/2024

Megan's paper on sTDP43 was just accepted at Cell Reports! Congrats Megan!!!

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Foundation of support

9/25/2024

Today, the Kissick Family Foundation Frontotemporal Dementia (FTD) Grant Program and the Milken Institute Science Philanthropy Accelerator for Research and Collaboration announced that they will be supporting 6 teams pursuing distinct research programs on FTD -- one of them includes a collaborative effort between the Barmada and Mosalaganti groups, focusing on structural insights into pathological TDP43 inclusions in FTD.

More info can be found by clicking on the box below:

Kissick family foundatioN

Figure depicting correlative light-electron microscopy (CLEM) of LC3-Dendra2 HEK cells treated with GU6 RNA, showing accumulation of TDP43 fibrils within lysosomes (see Erwin et al. in publication tab for additional details).

Of nuclei and nature

7/11/2024

Sumin's paper was just accepted for publication at Nature Cell Biology! Congrats Sumin, Sam, Bill and the entire team.

Streaming science

7/8/2024

Sometimes you just need to get outside... especially if you work inside all day.

Racking it up

4/2/2024

Congrats to Hari, who was awarded a Rackham fellowship for spring 2024!

Trieste = TDP43

9/13/2023

Caroline, Megan and Josephine visited 'the birthplace of TDP43' for the first biennial conference on TDP43 function and dysfunction in disease. Word on the street is that the meeting was 'sublime', with excellent science, people, coffee and of course location!

SMARTy SIRENs

8/4/2023

Congrats to Sean Starkloff (UM SMART) and Vivian Schmidt (SIREN)! Sean, from Univ. Maryland Baltimore County, and Vivian, from Kalamazoo College, both presented their summer research projects at symposia this week.

A new perspective on ALS

7/7/2023

Megan, Josephine and Sami traveled to Les Diablerets, Switzerland, for the 2nd Gordon Research Conference on ALS and Related Motor Neuron Diseases. Travel could have been better, but the conference (and the setting) were incredible!

Congrats to Josephine for winning awards for best poster at the GRS and GRC!

Based in part on his poetic diction, Sami was also elected as vice chair for the 2026 GRC on ALS and Related Motor Neuron Diseases. Congrats?

Ruth who?

7/1/2023

Megan Dykstra, a student in the Neuroscience Graduate Program, was just awarded a Ruth L. Kirschstein Predoctoral Individual National Research Service Award (NRSA; also F31) from the NIH/NINDS. Congrats Megan!

A new chapter

6/22/2023

Congratulations to Sumin on a successful defense of her thesis, entitled "TorsinA and Neuronal Nuclear Pore Complex Biogenesis". Sumin is now off to greener pastures with Anders Sejr Hansen at MIT. Fantastic job Sumin!