Lab news
2023
Shruti Wins Poster Award
October 17, 2023
Shruti won Best Poster Award at the IRM/CDRB 2023 Retreat
Samuel wins poster award
August 10, 2023
Samuel’s poster won the prize for best looking poster!
2021
Kahini is the poster winner at Northeast regional meeting of the society for developmental biology
April 9-10th, 2021
Kahini’s poster titled “Germ cell to maternal transition requires a feedback loop between heterochromatin and the nucleopore complex in Drosophila” won first prize!
2020
lab received NIH Biomedical grant
July 1st, 2020
The lab received the NIH Biomedical Grant in the amount of $1.2 million to research the role of RNA degradation in germline stem cell to oocyte transition
2019
hugo received CURCE conference travel grant!
November 15th, 2019
Catherine is going to medical school through early admission!
November 11th, 2019
Catherine Ramos is accepted into Albany Medical College through the Early Assurance Pathway Program (EAPP).
lab received NIH Biomedical grant
September 1st, 2019
The lab received the NIH Biomedical Grant in the amount of $1.2 million to research the regulation of stem cell differentiation during oogenesis
Shane is the outstanding ta of the year!
August 15th, 2019
KAHINI WON THE RNA DAY BAKE OFF CONTEST WITH HER MICROSCOPE CAKE!
August 1st, 2019
That’s how dedicate she is!
Shane and alicia are the poster winners at the rna retreat
July 25th, 2019
Alicia, Shane, and Patrick won lawrence and marie shore scholarship
July 10th, 2019
Congratulations on their excellence in academic achievement.
Alicia wins david shub award
June 14th, 2019
Alicia is the graduate student winner for her excellence in RNA research.
IAN wins RNA Summer fellowship
June 11th, 2019
Shane wins most outstanding poster award
April 21st, 2019
Shane’s Poster, titled, “Kdm5 controls germline stem cell differentiation by modulating ribosome biogenesis” wins Outstanding Poster Award at RNA Symposium.
prash is honored for torch award
April 2019
Prash was nominated and honored for his excellence in faculty and student engagement.
IAN wins situation prize for undergrad research
April 9th, 2019
Ian won his prize based on his research on Kdm5 affects differentiation and division during oogenesis in Drosophila.
2018
Alicia wins poster award at WISC
November 30th, 2018
Alicia’s Poster, titled, “A tip of the HAT to the ATAC complex: an epigentetic modifiers transcriptional and translational regulation during Drosophila oogenesis”.
patrick wins poster award at life science symposium
October 26th, 2018
Patrick’s Poster, titled, “Maternal RNAs are curated by the No Go Decay pathway in Drosophila” wins first place at the Life Science Research Symposium.
Alicia’s Paper Gets Accepted!
September 11th, 2018
Alicia’s paper on Tip60 and Nipped-A gets published in Molecular Biology of the Cell.
Patrick wins poster award at nesdB!
April 22nd, 2018
Patrick’s Poster, titled, “Maternal RNAs are curated by the No Go Decay pathway in Drosophila” wins the award for graduate student poster presentation.
NorthEAst SDB Meeting Hosted by prash
April 20-22nd, 2018
Maine Biological Laboratory
Wood Hole, MA
Prash is one of the organizers for this conference.
Registration and abstract submission is open for this event.
See you there!
MAITREYI'S PAPER GETS PUBLISHED!
January 2018
Maitreyi's follow up paper on dWnt4 Signaling gets published in PLOS Genetics.
2017
Pooja'S PAPER GETS PUBLISHED!
December 2017
Pooja's paper on pgc transcription gets published in Developmental Biology.
shane is a rna fellow!
Summer 2017
Shane received a RNA Fellowship from the RNA Institute at the University at Albany.
POOJA WINS THE DAVID SHUB AWARD!
May 15th, 2017
The David Shub award is given on the behalf of Department of Biological Sciences, UAlbany. It is given to a senior graduate student who has demonstrated ingenuity and prowess in RNA science and technology.
KATARINA AND POOJA WIN BEST PRESENTATIONS AT THE UALBANY RNA SYMPOSIUM!
March 18th, 2017
Katarina wins the best post-doc talk and Pooja wins the best graduate student poster presentation.
2016
MAITREYI WINS THE DAVID SHUB AWARD!
September 22nd, 2016
The David Shub award is given on the behalf of Department of Biological Sciences, UAlbany. It is given to a senior graduate student who has demonstrated ingenuity and prowess in RNA science and technology.
ALICIA'S PAPER ON EPIGENETICS IN THE EGG GETS PUBLISHED!
August 10th, 2016
Alicia's paper on dKDM5-mediated early epigenetic programing in the egg, gets published in Nature Communications.
MOHAMAD AND DHRUV ARE ACCEPTED FOR SUMMER INTERNSHIPS AT MT. SINAI AND HARVARD UNIVERSITY
April 20th, 2016
Mohamad will be conducting research during the summer of 2016 at Mt. Sinai in their pre-MD/PhD program, while Dhruv will be at Harvard University in their REU program.
ANNIE WINS THE KATHERINE VARIO SCHOLARSHIP!
April 19th, 2016
Annie wins the undergraduate Katherine Vario scholarship as an woman undergraduate pursuing a medical career.
RANGAN LAB RECOGNIZED AT NESDB 2016
April 15th, 2016
Pooja won first prize for the graduate student talk, while Katarina won first prize for Post-Doc poster at NESDB!
DHRUV WINS THE SPELLMAN AWARD
April 12th, 2016
Dhruv won the Spellman award for academic excellence as an undergraduate at the University at Albany.
MOHAMAD RECIEVES AN HONARABLE MENTION AS A BARRY GOLDWATER SCHOLAR
March 28th, 2016
Mohamad has recieved an honorable mention by the Barry Goldwater scholarship program for his excellent work.
MAITREYI'S PAPER GETS PUBLISHED!
March 28th, 2016
Maitreyi's paper on dWnt4 Signaling gets published in PLoS Genetics.
KATARINA AND MOHAMAD WIN POSTER AWARDS!
March 18th, 2016
Katarina wins the Post-Doc poster prize, and Mohamad wins the Undergraduate poster prize at the Sigma-Aldrich RNA Symposium.
2015
ALICIA WINS AN AWARD
September 25th, 2015
Alicia wins an award for her talk at the Life Science's Research Symposium.
PRESIDENTIAL AWARD
Fall 2015
Dr. Rangan receives funding from the University at Albany's Presidential Initiatives Fund for Reserach and Scholarship.
RNA FELLOWS
Summer 2015
Alicia and Patrick both received a RNA Fellowship from the RNA Institute at the University at Albany.
DHRUV RECEIVES NYSTEM FELLOWSHIP
April 11th, 2015
Dhruv will spend his summer researching as an NYSTEM Fellow at the RNA Institute at University at Albany.
MOHAMAD RECEIVES UMASS UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH FELLOWSHIP
April 11th, 2015
Mohammed will conduct research at UMass Medical School during the summer of 2015 in their undergraduate research program.
2014
LAB RECEIVES THE PEW SCHOLAR AWARD
July 2nd, 2014
The lab continues to expand upon nomination of the prestigious Pew Fellowship. The grant will support research delving into RNA structure and its involvement in translation control.
LAB RECEIVES THE NIH Biomedical Grant
June 2014
The lab received the NIH Biomedical Grant in the amount of $1.4 million to research the role of transient transcriptional silencing during germline stem cell differentiation.