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.