2024

10/2024 Manuel presents a poster at the 19th annual Dan L Duncan comprehensive cancer center (DLDCC) symposium

10/2024 Junzhe and Nivetha start as rotation students

09/2024 Surbhi presents a talk at the BCM RNA group

09/2024 Manuel presents a talk at the THINC annual retreat

08/2024 Lab is awarded a 5-year R35 award from NIH/NIGMS to investigate the role of cytoskeletal motor proteins in RNA localization

07/2024 Cindy, Muthu, and Mubtasim start as rotation students

07/2024 Furqan presents a talk at the FASEB RNA localization & local translation conference

07/2024 Staci and Neal join the lab

06/2024 Steven officially joins the lab

06/2024 Deanjay from Benedict College joins the lab for the summer as part of the SMART program

06/2024 Furqan presents a talk at the annual meeting of the RNA society

05/2024 Brennan from Rice returns to the lab for one more summer

05/2024 Lab gets a Caroline Wiess Law Fund for Research in Molecular Medicine seed grant to support our research

04/2024 Lab gets a research grant from the Welch Foundation to study the mechanisms of RNA localization to mitochondria

03/2024 Surbhi’s review on mitochondrial RNA localization is published in RNA

03/2024 Surbhi presents seminar at annual BMP-CPSB research conference. She wins a prize for her talk!

02/2024 Furqan presents seminar at MD Anderson systems biology department

02/2024 Devi joins the lab

01/2024 Surbhi presents seminar at BCM RNA group

01/2024 Naomi from Rice joins the lab

01/2024 Lab gets a pilot grant with Dr. Echeverria from DLDCC to map mitochondria-localized mRNAs in TNBCs

2023

08/2023 Steven starts as rotation student

08/2023 Manuel joins the lab

06/2023 Ruben joins the lab

05/2023 Furqan joins the BCM faculty senate

02/2023 Successful RNAScope experiments to visualize RNAs by microscopy

2022

11/2022 Furqan presents seminar at UT Health BMB department

10/2022 Maddy and Noah present posters at THINC science & sip event

10/2022 Maddy and Noah present posters at BCM biochemistry retreat

08/2022 Lex starts as rotation student

08/2022 Evelyn starts as rotation student

07/2022 Successful long-read sequencing

07/2022 Furqan presents talk at EMBO Workshop

06/2022 Brennan from Rice joins the lab for the summer

05/2022 Surbhi joins the lab

05/2022 Lab gets fluorescence microscope

02/2022 Successful APEX-seq labeling

01/2022 Furqan presents seminar at Toronto RNA club

01/2022 Trevor starts as rotation student

01/2022 Noah joins the lab

2021

12/2021 Furqan presents talk at Pacifichem conference

11/2021 Furqan presents seminar at Houston Methodist Research Institute

11/2021 First experiment in the lab

11/2021 Madeline joins the lab

10/2021 Subhashree joins the lab

09/2021 Xuemei joins the lab

09/2021 Fazal lab opens

09/2021 Furqan’s work is highlighted by the RNA society member spotlight

07/2021 Lab gets support from NHGRI R00 grant

06/2021 Lab has support from the CPRIT first-time tenure-track faculty grant

06/2021 Furqan starts at BCM

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