MURN LAB NEWS

  • 11/26/2021 - A NIH R01 grant application by the Murn Lab to work on post-transcriptional control of neuronal morphogenesis is recommended for funding for a period of five years. 

  • 10/05/2021 - Tjaša Mlakar, a 2021 ASEF Fellow, joins our lab as a visiting student. 

  • 09/03/2021 - Murn Lab receives the University of California Cancer Research Coordinating Committee (CRCC) award.

  • 07/21/2021 - New article accepted at Scientific Reports. Title: "The zinc finger/RING domain protein Unkempt regulates cognitive flexibility"

  • 07/03/2021 - Jernej gives a talk at the 45th FEBS Virtual Congress. 07/

  • 06/29/2021 - Murn Lab receives a continuing grant from NSF (MCB) to study regulation of RNases P and MRP by their protein subunits. 

  • 03/18/2021 - New article entitled "Cell Fate Decisions in the Wake of Histone H3 Deposition" accepted at Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology

  • 02/10/2021 - New article accepted at Nature Cell Biology. Title: "PANDORA-seq expands the functional small RNA repertoire by overcoming RNA modifications"

  • 10/29/2020 – New article published on bioRxiv entitled "CAF-1 Histone Chaperone is a Repressor of Mixed Lineages in Myeloid Progenitors" "

  • 05/08/2020 – Shiyang He joins Murn lab as a Graduate Student - welcome Shiyang!

  • 04/07/2020 – Jernej gives an interview for ASEF on the impact of Covid-19 on life and research (in Slovenian :-).

  • 04/06/2020 – Jennifer Le receives the prestigious Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship - congrats Jennifer!!

  • 09/30/2019 – Jernej's talk at EMBO Workshop: RNP network dynamics in development and disease

  • 09/01/2019 – Welcome to Ikrame Naciri who is joining us as a Postdoctoral Fellow!

  • 07/12/2019 – Murn Lab receives the University of California Cancer Research Coordinating Committee (CRCC) award.

  • 07/08/2019 – Pia Marija Oblak, a 2019 ASEF Fellow, joins the Murn Lab as a visiting student

  • 06/20/2019 – Murn Lab receives an Omnibus Travel grant from the Division of the Academic Senate @ UCR.

  • 05/31/2019 – Murn Lab receives a NIH-NIMH-R21 grant to study the functional landscape of microexons in neuronal development.

  • 05/22/2019 – Congratulations to undergraduate Jennifer Le for receiving the Chancellor’s Research Fellowship to support her work in the Murn Lab!

  • 03/26/2019 – Welcome to Yuan Liu who is joining us as our first Postdoctoral Scholar!

  • 03/07/2019 – Welcome to Ann Song who is joining us as a Graduate Student (CMDB)!

  • 02/27/2019 – Jernej's talk at Keystone Symposium: RNA-Protein Interactions

  • 06/04/2018 – Murn Lab receives a Regents Faculty Fellowship from the Academic Senate at UCR.

  • 04/16/2018 – Jennifer Le receives a Research in Science & Engineering (RISE) 2018 scholarship from CNAS to support her summer research - congratulations!

  • 04/03/2018 – Our visiting student Rok Razpotnik receives a fellowship from The American Slovenian Education Foundation (ASEF).

  • 03/20/2018 – New article published on bioRxiv entitled “Barcoded oligonucleotides ligated on RNA amplified for multiplex and parallel in-situ analyses.”

  • 03/06/2018 – Welcome to Kriti Shah who is joining us as our first Graduate Student (BCMB)!

  • 09/20/2017 – Murn Lab receives a CDMRP Discovery Award from the Department of Defense

  • 07/12/2017 – Murn Lab opens doors