Melike's Promotion

July 1, 2020 — Melike has been promoted to Associate Professor at Penn! She is grateful to all her lab members past and present for their contributions as well as all her scientific mentors, collaborators at Penn and beyond!

Welcome Qing!

April 1, 2020 — We welcome Qing Tang, a new postdoc in the lab who will be studying microtubule PTMs and intracellular transport

NIH-NIGMS-RM1

The Lakadamyali lab is excited to receive a collaborative RM1 grant from NIH-NIGMS, together with the Ostap, Holzbaur, & Dominguez labs at UPenn, and the Vavylonis lab at Lehigh University! We will study the mechanisms of mitochondrial transport from atomistic to cell biological level.

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NIH-NIGMS RO1

Melike receives an RO1 from the NIH-NIGMS for developing new methods for quantifying protein stoichiometry with super-resolution microscopy! Congratulations to the Lakadamyali lab for this great achievement!

NSF-EFRI-CEE Grant

Melike receives an NSF-EFRI-CEE grant together with Carlos Castro (Ohio State University), Michael Poirier (Ohio State University) and Laszlo Tora (IGBMC) to engineer new DNA-origami tools for visualizing and manipulating chromatin. Congratulations to the whole team and excited to officially kick off this exciting collaboration.

Linda Pechenik Montague Investigator Award

Melike receives a Linda Pechenik Montague Investigator Award. We are grateful to Laddie and Linda Pechenik for their generous donation that made this award possible and the Perelman School of Medicine for the great honor.

Farewell Nitin

We bid farewell to Nitin Mohan. We will miss Nitin and wish him the best as he starts his independent PI position at IIT-Kanpur.

NSF Pilot Award

Melike receives an NSF Science and Technology Center for Engineering Mechano-Biology pilot award to study the role of nuclear lamina in chromatin organization.