barmada lab - Events

F31 race

8/7/2025

Congratulations to Caroline on earning an F31 National Research Service Award (NRSA) from the NIH!!

Shown above, a BMW F31 wagon racing ahead, with Caroline in the drivers seat

Nemo who?

6/24/2025

Congrats to Michael and Emile for beautiful work showing that nemo-like kinase is directly associated with TDP43 mislocalization!

Nemo-like kinase disrupts nuclear import and drives TDP43 mislocalization in ALS.

Bekier ME II, Pinarbasi ES, Krishnan G, Mesojedec JJ, Hurley M, Harikumar Sheela H, Collins CA, Ghaffari LT, de Majo M, Ullian EM, Koontz M, Coleman S, Li X, Tank EM, Waksmacki J, Gao FB, Barmada SJ.

J Clin Invest. 2025 Jun 24:e188138. doi: 10.1172/JCI188138. Online ahead of print.PMID: 40553568

NSFing

4/8/2025

Congratulations to Morgan on earning a graduate student fellowship from the NSF!!!!

The short and long of it

12/22/2024

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

(***NOT the actual cover!)

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.