Khorana summer scholar Nikhita Damaraju

We are happy to welcome Nikhita as a summer 2018 researcher! Nikhita was awarded the Khorana Scholarship and has decided to perform research in the Salzman Lab for the summer 2018.

The Khorana Scholarship, named after the Nobel Laureate Dr. Har Gobind Khorana, is a grant given by the Government of India to selected students studying Biology which enables them to pursue a summer research internship for 10 weeks at a premier university in the United States.

Nikhita has completed three years of undergraduate studies in a dual degree program in Biological Sciences at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Madras. She is pursuing a minor in Computational Biology and aims to work in this field in the future.

 

"Star Wars FTW"

"Star Wars FTW"

Ammar Zaghlool Joins the Lab!

Ammar is joining our lab as a postdoc with interests in characterizing the function and mechanism-of-action of circRNAs in the nervous system using high throughput genome-wide screens.. Ammar has previously been focusing on understanding the function of non-coding RNA, especially circular RNA in brain development and neuropsychiatric diseases, which is a great fit for our lab.

Welcome Ammar!

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Roozbeh Dehghannasiri joins the lab!

We are excited to have Roozbeh join our lab as a post-doc! Roozbeh earned his PhD in Electrical Engineering from Texas A&M University. His current research interests include genomic signal processing, uncertainty quantification in dynamical models, and statistical signal processing.

67th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting

Steven Barrett invited to attend the 67th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting in Germany! 30-40 Nobel Laureates will convene at Lindau to meet with various students and researchers from all over the world! The meetings will focus on chemistry, one of the three natural science Nobel Prize disciplines. Congratulations Steven!

New Lab Members!

Roozbeh Dehghannasiri will be joining the lab as a postdoc! He has been awarded a NCI-funded Cancer Systems Biology Postdoctoral Fellowship. Welcome Roozbeh!

We welcome Caroline Horn who has joined the Salzman Lab as a Research Assistant! 

2016 Highlights

  • We welcome Jenny Pokorny as a Research Assistant!
  • Rob selected to join the Cell and Molecular Biology Training Grant:
    "our Nature Genetics review on circular RNA is in press"
  • Jonathan Howard joins the lab as a postdoctoral scholar, Welcome!
  • We welcome Rob as a permanent resident of the Salzman Lab!
  • Julia received an NSF CAREER award, April, 2016
  • We welcome Rob as a rotating student!