News
December 2021
Happy Holidays! No party this year…
December 2021
Our News & Views on a new fluorescent tag coined Squash has been published in Nature Chemical Biology. Congratulations to the Jaffrey and Ferré-D’Amaré laboratories on their excellent work on making and studying “Squash”!
June 2021
Our collaborative study on H2S inhibitors with the Nudler lab has been published in Science! Ashok is the first coauthor!
April 2021
Congratulations to Jake with the Ph.D. defense!
August 2020
We have renewed our NIH R01 grant. Thanks to collaborators and everyone involved.
April 2020
Ang’s and Nikita’s paper is featured on the cover of Nucleic Acids Research!
December 2019
Holiday parties are everywhere. We are bowling in Gutter. Jake is a winner…
December 2019
Check out the December cover of Nature Structural & Molecular Biology, which was created with images prepared by Jake.
December 2019
Our News and Views on T-box riboswitches has been published in December issue of Nature Structural & Molecular Biology!
November 2019
Jake gave a talk about his cryo-EM studies of RNA polymerase at the Chemical Biology Seminar, NYU downtown.
September 2019
Sasha gave a talk at the Brookhaven National Laboratory about Jake’s, Ashok’s, Maria’s and Alla’s results.
August 2019
We are hosting Research Adventure for incoming graduate students. Welcome!
May 2019
Wenqian Duan has joined the lab as a postdoctoral fellow. Welcome!
April 2019
Alla defended her Ph.D. thesis! Congratulations!!!
April 2019
Abhishek Kaushik has joined the lab as a postdoctoral fellow. Welcome!
April 2019
Ang’s paper has been published in Molecular Cell. Congratulations!
March 2019
María Mateos has joined the lab as a postdoctoral fellow. Welcome!
March 2019
Nikita’s review has been published in Wiley Interdiscip. Rev. RNA
February 2019
Sasha reported Ang’s and Nikita’s results at the 6th Nucleic Acids Conference at Nassau, Bahamas
January 2019
Jake received a fellowship to attend a CCP4 Study Weekend in EMCC, Nottingham, UK
November 2018
Jake and Sasha attended a fundraising for IES Brain Research foundation
October 2018
Alla gave a talk at the EMBO/EMBL symposium “The Complex Life of RNA” in Heidelberg, Germany.
September 2018
Ashok joined the lab as a postdoctoral fellow. Welcome!
September 2018
We have received a 3-year DoD grant for development of novel antibacterial therapeutics. Good job everyone!
August 2018
Alla’s work has been published in Nature Chemical Biology! Congratulations to Alla!!!
August 2018
Alla gave a talk at the Nature Conference on Chemical Biology!
June 2018
Ang’s work was presented at the RNA Society meeting.
June 2018
Alla gave a talk at the RNA Society meeting!
May 2018
Sasha gave a talk at the Regulatory & Non-Coding RNAs meeting at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory!
May 2018
Ang publishes in Nucleic Acids Research!
May 2018
Alla receives Renate W. Chasman Scholarship awarded to the best female graduate student associated with Brookhaven National Laboratory by Brookhaven Women in Science. Congratulations!
April 2018
Alla receives a travel grant from the NYU Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Dean fund.
March 2018
Alla has been invited to present her work at the National Graduate Student Symposium at St. Jude!
March 2018
Alla received the RNA Society travel grant!
February 2018
Sasha gave a talk at the NYU-Merck symposium.
July 2017
Shivali has been accepted to graduate school at Yale!
June 2017
Jake is selected to be re-appointed on the Molecular Biophysics T32 training grant. Congratulations to Jake!
June 2017
Alla’s and Ang’s studies were presented at the RNA Society meeting in Prague.
May 2017
Alla and Jake received McCracken Awards from the Sackler graduate school!
April 2017
Alla Peselis received NIH F31 fellowship! Congratulations!
September 2016
We have received an R21 grant from the National Institute of Mental Health to continue our studies on Fragile X Syndrome. Good work everyone!
September 2016
Jake Weaver is selected to be appointed on the Molecular Biophysics T32 training grant.
August 2016
Bowling party at Chelsea pier. Having some fun!
July 2016
Shivali has joined the lab as Research Associate.
June 2016
Ang’s work is presented at the 21st Annual Meeting of the RNA Society, Kyoto, Japan.
June 2016
Jake is selected to be appointed on the Molecular Biophysics T32 training grant. Congratulations to Jake!
June 2016
Ang’s c-di-AMP riboswitch structure is featured on the cover of RNA.
May 2016
Jake receives the 2nd place award for the “Best Work” presentation at the Molecular Biophysics Graduate Program Symposium. Congratulations to Jake!
May 2016
Shivali has graduated from NYU. Congratulations to Shivali!
May 2016
Our studies on RNA-protein interactions are presented at Precision Medicine Symposia-2016, Boston, MA.
May 2016
Alla receives the “Best Presentation” award at the Molecular Biophysics Graduate Program Symposium. Congratulations to Alla!
June 2015
Alla Peselis is re-appointed on the Molecular Biophysics T32 training grant.
June 2015
Ang Gao’s article is selected among Greatest Hits of the Decade by Nature Chemical Biology.
May 2015
Shivali Patel is selected to become the ”Columbia and John J. Bonnet” Summer Fellow by Irene & Eric Simon Brain Research Foundation.
January 2015
Alexander Serganov receives Irma T. Hirschl Career Scientists Award.
September 2014
Alexander Serganov receives Edward Mallinckrodt, Jr. Foundation Award.
June 2014
Alla Peselis is selected for a fellowship from the Molecular Biophysics T32 training grant.
September 2013
Alexander Serganov receives Whitehead Fellowship for Junior Faculty in Biomedical and Biological Sciences.