April 2019: Great honor for the laboratory as Vytas is awarded the 2019 Avanti Award in Lipid at ASBMB's annual conference. Read the press release here. Pictures here.
January 2019: We kick off 2019 with a new publication from Bankaitis and Nakano labs in the Biophysical Journal! Check out this collaborative work! https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0006349518344539
November 2018: Former graduate student Danish Khan moves on to Stanford University where he will be a post-doctoral fellow. Congratulations Danish!
October 2018: Congratulations to Seong K. Hur and Yaxi Wang for successfully defending their PhD theses!
Seong will be joining UPenn as a post-doctoral fellow soon. Congratulations Seong!
August 2018: Yaxi Wang and Danish Khan gave talks at the FASEB Conference on Phospholipids, held at Steamboat Springs, CO. Danish bagged a travel award as well as the 'Outstanding Poster' award! Good job all!
July 2018: ASBMB announced that Prof. Vytas Bankaitis will receive the 2019 Avanti Award in Lipids. As the ASBMB press release puts it, "[t]he winners were nominated by colleagues and other leaders in their fields for making significant contributions to biochemistry and molecular biology and the training of emerging scientists." He will be honored at ASBMB's annual meeting at Orlando, FL, in April 2019. Great honor for the lab!
Coverage at: https://vitalrecord.tamhsc.edu/bankaitis-wins-award-from-century-old-scientific-society/
June 2018: Congratulations to Danish Khan for successfully defending his PhD thesis!
April 2018: Prof. Vytas A. Bankaitis was bestowed the University Distinguished Professor award by Texas A&M President Michael K. Young. A great honor for the lab!
March 2018: Congratulations to Seong Hur and Dr. Zhigang Xie for their paper in Developmental Cell! The paper identifies a role of PITP/PIP4 signaling in neural stem cell Golgi in optimizing apically directed membrane trafficking/signaling during neurogenesis.
March 2018: Congratulations to Danish Khan and Ashutosh Tripathi for their paper with Dominic Hoepfner's group in
Cell Chemical Biology!
February 2018: Congratulations to Seong Hur and Max Lönnfors for their paper with Hongyan Wang's group in eLife.
February 2018: Congratulations to Danish Khan for being presented with The John Mack Prescott Award 2018 - the highest award given to a student of Dept. of Biochemistry & Biophysics. Well done!
January 2018: Congratulations to Jin Huang for his paper in Developmental Cell! 2008 is off to a great start!
December 2017: Wei Tu finished his postdoctoral stint in lab and moves over to industry!
August 2017: Max Lönnfors finished his postdoctoral stint in the lab and heads back to Finland for a teaching job!
July 2017: Jin Huang finished his postdoctoral stint in the lab and heads back to China.
January 2019: We kick off 2019 with a new publication from Bankaitis and Nakano labs in the Biophysical Journal! Check out this collaborative work! https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0006349518344539
November 2018: Former graduate student Danish Khan moves on to Stanford University where he will be a post-doctoral fellow. Congratulations Danish!
October 2018: Congratulations to Seong K. Hur and Yaxi Wang for successfully defending their PhD theses!
Seong will be joining UPenn as a post-doctoral fellow soon. Congratulations Seong!
August 2018: Yaxi Wang and Danish Khan gave talks at the FASEB Conference on Phospholipids, held at Steamboat Springs, CO. Danish bagged a travel award as well as the 'Outstanding Poster' award! Good job all!
July 2018: ASBMB announced that Prof. Vytas Bankaitis will receive the 2019 Avanti Award in Lipids. As the ASBMB press release puts it, "[t]he winners were nominated by colleagues and other leaders in their fields for making significant contributions to biochemistry and molecular biology and the training of emerging scientists." He will be honored at ASBMB's annual meeting at Orlando, FL, in April 2019. Great honor for the lab!
Coverage at: https://vitalrecord.tamhsc.edu/bankaitis-wins-award-from-century-old-scientific-society/
June 2018: Congratulations to Danish Khan for successfully defending his PhD thesis!
April 2018: Prof. Vytas A. Bankaitis was bestowed the University Distinguished Professor award by Texas A&M President Michael K. Young. A great honor for the lab!
March 2018: Congratulations to Seong Hur and Dr. Zhigang Xie for their paper in Developmental Cell! The paper identifies a role of PITP/PIP4 signaling in neural stem cell Golgi in optimizing apically directed membrane trafficking/signaling during neurogenesis.
March 2018: Congratulations to Danish Khan and Ashutosh Tripathi for their paper with Dominic Hoepfner's group in
Cell Chemical Biology!
February 2018: Congratulations to Seong Hur and Max Lönnfors for their paper with Hongyan Wang's group in eLife.
February 2018: Congratulations to Danish Khan for being presented with The John Mack Prescott Award 2018 - the highest award given to a student of Dept. of Biochemistry & Biophysics. Well done!
January 2018: Congratulations to Jin Huang for his paper in Developmental Cell! 2008 is off to a great start!
December 2017: Wei Tu finished his postdoctoral stint in lab and moves over to industry!
August 2017: Max Lönnfors finished his postdoctoral stint in the lab and heads back to Finland for a teaching job!
July 2017: Jin Huang finished his postdoctoral stint in the lab and heads back to China.