July, 2024
Congratulations to Madeleine on her thesis defense!
June, 2024
Madeleine's study identifying a specialized population of mitochondria that reside in filopodia is posted on BioRxiv!
Check out the preprint here!June, 2024
Current Biology highlights Abhishek's work finding a new mitochondrial cristae shaping factor
Read the write up by Jason Mears here
May 2024
Our work identifying a dynamin-like protein that helps maintain cristae shape is published in Current Biology!
Read the paper here!
April, 2024
The lab proudly celebrates its first graduating PhD student! Congrats Oguz on a successful thesis defense!!!
March, 2024
Alia's work identifying a new factor involved in mitochondrial fission is posted on BioRxiv!
Read the paper here!
March, 2024
Madeleine receives a travel award to present her work at ASBMB!
March, 2024
Oguz is awarded with the 2024 Letia Marsh Pharmacological Award for his graduate school achievements! Congrats Oguz!
December, 2023
Alia and Abhishek travel to ASCB/Cell Bio 2023 to present their work!
October, 2023
Abhishek's work identifying a new class of protein that shapes mitochondrial cristae is posted on BioRxiv!
Read the paper here!September, 2023
Our paper discovering a new mitochondrial fission factor was highlighted in JCB
Read the write up here: "Mitochondrial double membrane fission: A mystery solved?"
August 2023
Our work identifying an internal protein required for mitochondrial division is published at JCB
Read the paper here!
July 2023
Oguz awarded as a Cornell Weill Institute Emerging Scholar and will travel to Ithaca in October to present his work!
Weill Institute Emerging Scholars Program
July 2023
Oguz and Jonathan travel to the Molecular Membrane Gordon Research Conference to present work from the lab
May 2023
Our work identifying Mdi1 as an internal mitochondrial fission factor was written up as a preLight!
Read the preLight article here
April 2023
Olivia and Srujan's discovery of an intermembrane space protein required for mitochondrial division is posted on BioRxiv
Check out our preprint on Mdi1March, 2023
Jonathan travels to the ASBMB annual meeting in Seattle to present our latest work on mitochondrial dynamics
March, 2023
The Journal of Cell Biology publishes a spotlight on Oguz's work identifying a new regulator of mitophagy
Read the write up by Tom McWilliams hereFebruary, 2023
UTSW Center Times Plus highlights our paper on the spatial regulation of mitophagy
Read the Center Times story here!
February, 2023
Jonathan travels to Cornell University and Weill Medical College to present the lab's work. Thanks to Anant Menon and Martin Graef for the invitations and Jeremy Baskin for the photo!
February, 2023
Oguz's work identifying a novel spatial regulator of mitophagy is published in Journal of Cell Biology
Check out the paper here!
December, 2022
Alia wins first place for graduate students in the ASCB Minorities Affairs Committee poster competition! Congrats Alia!
Check out the writeup here!
December, 2022