News @ the Jerry Zhao Lab
2024
03/27/2024: Faculty and Scholar Luncheon at the de Seversky Mansion.
01/10/2024: Rebecca Yusupov, an NYIT undergraduate student, joined the Jerry Zhao Lab. Welcome Rebecca!
01/09/2024: Moontachier Taseen, an NYIT undergraduate student, joined the Jerry Zhao Lab. Welcome Moontachier!
2023
11/28/2023: Thanks to Sohyun and our wonderful collaborators. Our paper, titled “Knockout of the intellectual disability-linked gene Hs6st2 in mice decreases heparan sulfate 6-O-sulfation, impairs dendritic spines of hippocampal neurons, and affects memory”, published today in Glycobiology (link). Download Congratulations, Sohyun.
11/17/2023: Laiba presented at the 2023 NYITCOM Research Symposium. Congratulations, Laiba.
09/10/2023: After the maintenance and updates, our webserver for long genes, the LongGeneDB, is up and running again. LongGeneDB (link).
08/25/2023: Sohyun has another first-author paper, with the collaboration of the Abdelfattah El Ouaamari lab at NYMC, titled “Transcriptome and Secretome Profiling of Sensory Neurons Reveals Sex Differences in Pathways Relevant to Insulin Sensing and Insulin Secretion”, published today in FASEB Journal (link). Congratulations, Sohyun.
08/05/2023: A joint BBQ with the Cai Lab.
06/12/2023: Christina Gonzalez joined the Jerry Zhao Lab as a Research Technician. Welcome Christina!
05/21/2023: Jerry attended the NYITCOM Class of 2023 Commencement & Hooding Ceremony. Three of our former trainees, Matan Kadosh, Brian Tang, and Saqib Chariwala officially obtained their doctor’s degrees. Congratulations, Dr. Kadosh, Dr. Tang, and Dr. Chariwala.
04/17/2023: Laiba has been awarded the 2023 Summer Student Research Program Fellowship. Congratulations, Laiba.
04/01/2023: Our lab received the 2023 Research Grant Award from the Mizutani Foundation for Glycoscience (Japan). We greatly appreciate the generous support for our research from the Mizutani Foundation.
03/09/2023: Tiffany Tran and Rianna Pannikodu, two undergraduate students, joined the Jerry Zhao Lab. Welcome Tiffany and Rianna!
03/07/2023: Laiba Ahmed, a medical school student, joined the Jerry Zhao Lab. Welcome Laiba!
2022
12/07/2022: The collaboration with the Weikang Cai lab at NYIT titled “Insulin and IGF-1 elicit robust transcriptional regulation to modulate autophagy in astrocytes” is published today in Molecular Metabolism (link). Congratulations, Sohyun.
12/01/2022: Our lab received the Research Enhancement Award (REAP) (R15) from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS), National Institutes of Health (NIH). We greatly appreciate the generous support for our research from the NINDS and NIH.
08/25/2022: Our lab received a one-year Grant Award from The Adele Smithers Parkinson’s Disease Center Research Program. We greatly appreciate the generous support for our research from the Adele Smithers Parkinson’s Disease Treatment Center (link).
07/28/2022: Our paper titled “Convergent biological pathways underlying the Kallmann syndrome-linked genes Hs6st1 and Fgfr1” is published today in Human Molecular Genetics (link). Congratulations, Sohyun.
07/19/2022: Our lab received the 2022 AARG Award from the Alzheimer’s Association (Alzheimer’s Association). We greatly appreciate the generous support for our research from the Alzheimer’s Association.
07/11/2022: Jerry gave a talk at the 2022 Proteoglycans Gordon Conference titled “Heparan Sulfate 6-O-sulfation in Kallmann Syndrome and Intellectual Disability”.
04/29/2022: Mansi presented at the 2022 NYIT SOURCE Symposium. Congratulations, Mansi.
03/23/2022: The collaboration with the Haotian Zhao lab at NYIT titled “Disruption of GMNC-MCIDAS multiciliogenesis program is critical in choroid plexus carcinoma development” is published today in Cell Death & Differentiation (link).
03/21/2022: Congrats to Ali who has been accepted to medical school at NYIT.
01/28/2022: Our paper titled “Recursive splicing is a rare event in the mouse brain” is published today in PLOS ONE (link). Congratulations, Sohyun.
01/24/2022: Sana Naeem, a medical school student, joined the Jerry Zhao Lab. Welcome Sana!
01/10/2022: The collaboration with the Joe Zhou lab at the University of Pennsylvania titled “Neuronal Yin Yang1 in the prefrontal cortex regulates transcriptional and behavioral responses to chronic stress in mice” is published today in Nature Communications (link).
2021
11/07/2021 - 11/10/2021: Jerry presented at the 2021 Annual Meeting of the Society of Glycobiology at San Diego, CA.
09/23/2021: Ali Mian joined the Jerry Zhao Lab. Welcome Ali!
06/28/2021: Sam Mota joined the Jerry Zhao Lab. Welcome Sam!
06/14/2021: Our paper titled “Spatial, temporal, and cell-type-specific expression profiles of genes encoding heparan sulfate biosynthesis enzymes and proteoglycan core proteins” is published today in Glycobiology (link). Congratulations, Sohyun.
01/01/2021: Saqib Chariwala joined the Jerry Zhao Lab. Welcome Saqib!
2020
10/01/2020: Brian presented at the American Physician Scientists Association (APSA) Symposium. Congratulations, Brian.
09/22/2020: Sohyun Moon joined the Jerry Zhao Lab. Welcome Sohyun!
09/11/2020: Our manuscript titled “Primary sequence context defines recursive splicing in long genes” is available in bioRXiv (bioRXiv).
09/11/2020: Our manuscript titled “LongGeneDB: a data hub for long genes” is available in bioRXiv (bioRXiv). Congratulations, Yura and Mariam.
09/01/2020: Congrats to Yura and Mariam who start their first yeat of medical school at NYIT.
07/07/2020: The collaboration with the Zhou lab (my Postdoc mentor) at the University of Pennsylvania titled “Stress-induced epigenetic regulation of transcription in neocortical excitatory neurons drives depression-like behavior” is available in bioRXiv (bioRXiv).
06/28/2020: Our web database of LongGeneDB (longgenedb.com) is up and running. Thank you for your great work, Yura and Mariam.
04/14/2020: Brian and Matan have been awarded the Summer 2020 NYITCOM Student Research Fellowship. Congratulations!
03/03/2020: Brian Tang joined the Jerry Zhao Lab. Welcome Brian!
03/03/2020: Mansi Patel joined the Jerry Zhao Lab. Welcome Mansi!
02/25/2020: Yura Kim and Mariam Naghavi joined the Jerry Zhao Lab. Welcome Yura and Mariam!
02/25/2020: Matan Kadosh joined the Jerry Zhao Lab. Welcome Matan!
02/03/2020: Austin Meadows joined the Jerry Zhao Lab. Welcome Austin!
01/17/2020: Get my teaching evaluation from students: “Dr. Jerry Zhao is a great facilitator.”. 😀 ≧◡≦
2019
12/16/2019: Jerry presented at the Fox Chase Cancer Center Epigenetics Symposium.
09/19/2019: The collaboration with the Epstein lab at the University of Pennsylvania titled “Genomic architecture of Shh-dependent cochlear morphogenesis” is published in Development in September 2019.
07/01/2019: Day one of the Jerry Zhao Lab
