MURN LAB NEWS

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• 09/23/24 - Lena Kogoj, our 2024 ASEF Fellow, joins us as a visiting student! Welcome Lena!
• 08/01/24 - Zi (Nicole) Yang from the ETOX Graduate Program joins us for a summer rotation. Welcome Zi! 
• 07/31/24 - Our collaborative study with Daniel Dominguez on species-specific and  conserved RNA-protein interactions is accepted at Nature Communications!
• 07/17/24 - The Murn Lab receives the University of California Cancer Research Coordinating Committee (CRCC) award, our third so far!
• 07/05/24 - Our collaborative work with the Larsen lab on the roles of the stem cell transcription factor ERF115 in plants is accepted at  Plant, Cell & Environment!
• 06/17/24 - Vivian Huang joins us for a summer rotation. Welcome Vivian!
• 06/07/24 - The Murn Lab receives a Proof-of-Concept Award from the Office of Technology Partnerships to commercialize our invention on organ preservation.
• 06/07/24 - Ibrahim receives the 2024 CNAS Academic Excellence Award!
• 05/29/24 - Anzie is elected a 2024-2025 Chancellor Research Fellow, congrats!
• 05/21/24 - Shiyang defends his PhD thesis, in style! Congrats, dr. He!!
• 05/20/24 - Jernej presents work on cellular quiescence at the RNA Mini-symposium of the UCR Center for RNA Biology and Medicine.
• 04/18/24 - Jernej presents at the Research Conference on RNA Regulation at Stowers Institute in Kansas City.
• 03/28/24 - Our study entitled "Regulation by the RNA-binding protein Unkempt at its effector interface" is accepted at Nature Communications!
• 03/11/24 - Ibrahim gets an accepts an offer to do his graduate studies at Stanford University. Congrats!!
• 03/08/24 - Jernej presents work on RNase MRP at the GGB recruitment symposium
• 02/23/24 - Shiyang receives the Dissertation Completion Fellowship Award - congrats Shiyang!
• 09/21/23 - New manuscript from our lab and the collaborating Valkov lab posted on bioRxiv: "A paradigm for regulation at the effector interface with RNA-binding proteins". Great job Kriti, Shiyang, David, Eugene et al!!
• 06/22/23 - Dr. Benedict Smail joins us as a postdoc in our quest to unravel the mysteries of RNA biology - welcome Ben!
• 06/21/23 - Jernej gives a talk at the EMBO Workshop on Eukaryotic RNA turnover and viral biology in Brno, Czech Republic.
• 06/09/23 - Kriti defends her PhD thesis as the first student in the Murn lab to do so. Way to go, dr. Shah, congrats!!
• 06/07/23 - Žana Brilej, a 2023 ASEF Fellow, joins us as a visiting student!
• 03/31/23 - Ibrahim wins the prestigious Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship!
• 12/06/22 - Jernej gives an invited seminar on RNA-binding proteins as living fossils in human cells at the University of Michigan.
• 11/23/22 - Our study on phosphorylation-dependent activity of Unkempt done in collaboration with Joe Bateman's lab has been accepted at JBC!
• 10/24/22 - Our analysis entitled The nexus between RNA-binding proteins and their effectors is accepted at Nature Reviews Genetics!
• 09/12/22 - Tjaša Mlakar, our visiting student, defends her master's thesis under Jernej's mentorship. Congrats Tjaša!!
• 09/07/22 - Jernej gives a talk at a Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory meeting on Translational control.
• 07/05/2022 - Jona Novljan joins the lab as an ASEF-sponsored visiting student from Slovenia - welcome Jona!
• 06/08/2022 - NIH awards an equipment supplement to fortify research in the Murn lab.
• 06/02/2022 - Congrats to Ibrahim for receiving the Chancellor's Research Fellowship to support his work in the Murn lab!
• 02/10/2022 - Jernej gives a seminar on RNA-binding proteins at the ASEF Speaker Series (in Slovenian!)
• 01/26/2022 - Our collaborative work with Cheloufi lab on regulation of chromatin accessibility by the histone chaperone CAF-1 is accepted at Nature Communications - great job Reuben, Shiyang et al!

• 12/31/2021 - Murn Lab receives an R01 grant from NIH/NIGMS to work on post-transcriptional control of neuronal morphogenesis.

• 10/05/2021 - Tjaša Mlakar, a 2021 ASEF Fellow, joins our lab as a visiting student. 

• 09/03/2021 - Murn Lab receives the University of California Cancer Research Coordinating Committee (CRCC) award.

• 07/21/2021 - New article accepted at Scientific Reports. Title: "The zinc finger/RING domain protein Unkempt regulates cognitive flexibility"

• 07/03/2021 - Jernej gives a talk at the 45th FEBS Virtual Congress. 07/

• 06/29/2021 - Murn Lab receives a continuing grant from NSF (MCB) to study regulation of RNases P and MRP by their protein subunits. 

• 04/27/2021 - Dr. Chen Cai is joining our lab as a postdoc - welcome Chen!

• 04/22/2021 - Kriti is awarded the Dissertation Year Program Award. Congrats!!

• 03/18/2021 - New article entitled "Cell Fate Decisions in the Wake of Histone H3 Deposition" accepted at Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology

• 02/10/2021 - New article accepted at Nature Cell Biology. Title: "PANDORA-seq expands the functional small RNA repertoire by overcoming RNA modifications"

• 10/29/2020 – New article published on bioRxiv entitled "CAF-1 Histone Chaperone is a Repressor of Mixed Lineages in Myeloid Progenitors" "

• 05/08/2020 – Shiyang He joins Murn lab as a Graduate Student - welcome Shiyang!

• 04/07/2020 – Jernej gives an interview for ASEF on the impact of Covid-19 on life and research (in Slovenian :-).

• 04/06/2020 – Jennifer Le receives the prestigious Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship - congrats Jennifer!!

• 09/30/2019 – Jernej's talk at EMBO Workshop: RNP network dynamics in development and disease

• 09/01/2019 – Welcome to Ikrame Naciri who is joining us as a Postdoctoral Fellow!

• 07/12/2019 – Murn Lab receives the University of California Cancer Research Coordinating Committee (CRCC) award.

• 07/08/2019 – Pia Marija Oblak, a 2019 ASEF Fellow, joins the Murn Lab as a visiting student

• 06/20/2019 – Murn Lab receives an Omnibus Travel grant from the Division of the Academic Senate @ UCR.

• 05/31/2019 – Murn Lab receives a NIH-NIMH-R21 grant to study the functional landscape of microexons in neuronal development.

• 05/22/2019 – Congratulations to undergraduate Jennifer Le for receiving the Chancellor’s Research Fellowship to support her work in the Murn Lab!

• 03/26/2019 – Welcome to Dr. Yuan Liu who is joining us as our first Postdoctoral Scholar!

• 03/07/2019 – Welcome to Ann Song who is joining us as a Graduate Student (CMDB)!

• 02/27/2019 – Jernej's talk at Keystone Symposium: RNA-Protein Interactions

• 06/04/2018 – Murn Lab receives a Regents Faculty Fellowship from the Academic Senate at UCR.

• 04/16/2018 – Jennifer Le receives a Research in Science & Engineering (RISE) 2018 scholarship from CNAS to support her summer research - congratulations!

• 04/03/2018 – Our visiting student Rok Razpotnik receives a fellowship from The American Slovenian Education Foundation (ASEF).

• 03/20/2018 – New article published on bioRxiv entitled “Barcoded oligonucleotides ligated on RNA amplified for multiplex and parallel in-situ analyses.”

• 03/06/2018 – Welcome to Kriti Shah who is joining us as our first Graduate Student (BCMB)!

• 09/20/2017 – Murn Lab receives a CDMRP Discovery Award from the Department of Defense

• 07/12/2017 – Murn Lab opens doors