July 2024
Kyah Featherston joins the lab
Kyah joined the lab as a Research Assistant. She'll be working on a variety of projects. Welcome Kyah!
May 2024
Olga Hunter leaves the lab
Olga was the lab manager for the Conrad Lab for 15 years and her departure will leave a huge hole. Olga co-authored nearly all the papers published in the lab during her time here. We're sad to see her go, but wish her the best of luck in her new adventures in Tennessee!
February 2024
Sung-Kyun (Sean) Park rejoins the lab as visiting scientist
Sean was a postdoc in the lab from 2014-2016 when he worked on the regulation of intron retention on OGT. He now rejoins us for a year as a visiting scientist. This time, he'll work on gene regulation in KSHV. Welcome back, Sean!
February 2024
Minseon Kim leaves the lab
As a postdoc in the lab, Minseon successfully generated several technically challenging tools for the study of export factors in nuclear RNA decay. She is moving on for a new position in her home country of Korea. We know she'll accomplish great things there!
January 2024
Amitabh Ranjan joins the lab
Amitabh is a Research Scientist who previously worked on La-related proteins in Richard Maraia's lab at NIH. We expect he'll work on many projects, but he is starting out by investigating the mechanisms of PNUTS regulation of KSHV gene expression. Welcome Amitabh!
2024
Lab News Is Back on the Website
After years of Twitter-only lab news, we're back to updating News and Lab Fun on the website. Check out what's happening here as well as on our Twitter feed:
Conrad Lab on TwitterJanuary 2015
Nucleic Acids Research
Sarah's paper was accepted to Nucleic Acids Research!
Read Sarah's paperDecember 2014
Dr. Stefan Bresson
Stefan defended his thesis; Congratulations Dr. Bresson!
Stefan started a new position as a postdoctoral fellow in Dr. David Tollervey's lab at University of Edinburgh.
July 2014
We welcome two new members to the lab!
Dr. Sung-Kyun (Sean) Park who received his Ph.D. from Kyung Hee University in South Korea. Sean will be working on nuclear regulation of intron retention.
Dr. Julio Ruiz who received his Ph.D. from UT Southwestern. Julio will be working on mechanisms of ORF57.
June 2014
Congratulations, Dr. Sei!
Emi defended her thesis: Congratulations, Dr. Sei!
Emi moved on to a position as a Lab Coordinator in Dr. Nicholas Navin's lab at MD Anderson Cancer Center.
February 2014
Promotion to Associate Professor
Nick was approved for promotion to Associate Professor (with tenure) as of September 2014.
September 2013
Congratulations, Sarah!
Sarah defended her thesis and shortly afterwards moved on to a postdoc with Sean Whelan at Harvard. Congratulations and best of luck Sarah!
September 2013
PLOS Genetics
Stefan’s paper was published in PLOS Genetics!
Read Stefan's paper on PLOS GeneticsSeptember 2013
EMBO Conference
Nick attended and gave a talk at the EMBO Conference: RNA 3’ ends: Mechanism and biological function in eukaryotic genomesin Oxford, UK.
August 2013
Cold Spring Harbor Eukaryotic mRNA Processing
Nick and Stefan attended the Cold Spring Harbor Eukaryotic mRNA Processing
July 2013
International Herpevirus Workshop
Nick and Emi attended the International Herpesvirus Workshop in Grand Rapids Michigan.
May 2013
Good Luck, Ally!
Ally left the lab to start in the physical therapy doctoral program here at UTSW. Best of luck to Ally!
February 2013
Journal of Virology
Our paper, a group effort by Olga, Emi, Blake, and Nick, was accepted to Journal of Virology.
Read their paperJanuary 2013
Welcome, Kathryn!
Welcome to Kathryn Pendleton, a new graduate student in the lab! Kathryn received her BS in biochemistry from UT Austin and will be working on nuclear RNA processing and decay.
August 2012
Nick and Emi attend the KSHV and EBV meeting in Philadelphia
Both gave poster presentations of their work on KSHV ORF57.
July 2012
The lab gets a new website.
July 2012
Olga Hunter has been promoted from Research Technician II to Research Associate.
Congratulations, Olga, you earned it!
June 2012
New lab members join!
June 2012
Welcome to Ally Hunter, a technician joining us from Trinity University.
June 2012
Patrick Hunt and Breanna Pasko will be with us for the the summer as SURF and rotation students, respectively.
June 2012
Stefan and Nick attended the RNA Society Meeting in Ann Arbor
Stefan wowed the audience with an oral presentation of his work.
May 2012
Nick publishes a paper in collaboration with Markus Grammel and Howard Hang in ChemBioChem.
Read their collaborationMay 2012
Sarah’s paper on REF/Aly and ORF57 effects on nuclear RNA stability was published Molecular and Cellular Biology.
Congratulations to Sarah on her first lead-author paper!
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