MURN LAB NEWS

03/28/24 - Our study entitled "Regulation by the RNA-binding protein Unkempt at its effector interface" is accepted at Nature Communications!
03/11/24 - Ibrahim gets an accepts an offer to do his graduate studies at Stanford University. Congrats!!
03/08/24 - Jernej presents work on RNase MRP at the GGB recruitment symposium
09/21/23 - New manuscript from our lab and the collaborating Valkov lab posted on bioRxiv: "A paradigm for regulation at the effector interface with RNA-binding proteins". Great job Kriti, Shiyang, David, Eugene et al!!
06/22/23 - Dr. Benedict Smail joins us as a postdoc in our quest to unravel the mysteries of RNA biology - welcome Ben!
06/21/23 - Jernej gives a talk at the EMBO Workshop on Eukaryotic RNA turnover and viral biology in Brno, Czech Republic.
06/07/23 - Žana Brilej, a 2023 ASEF Fellow, joins us as a visiting student!
03/31/23 - Ibrahim wins the prestigious Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship!
12/06/22 - Jernej gives an invited seminar on RNA-binding proteins as living fossils in human cells at the University of Michigan.
11/23/22 - Our study on phosphorylation-dependent activity of Unkempt done in collaboration with Joe Bateman's lab has been accepted at JBC!
10/24/22 - Our analysis entitled The nexus between RNA-binding proteins and their effectors is accepted at Nature Reviews Genetics!
09/12/22 - Tjaša Mlakar, our visiting student, defends her master's thesis under Jernej's mentorship. Congrats Tjaša!!
09/07/22 - Jernej gives a talk at a Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory meeting on Translational control.
07/05/2022 - Jona Novljan joins the lab as an ASEF-sponsored visiting student from Slovenia - welcome Jona!
06/08/2022 - NIH awards an equipment supplement to fortify research in the Murn lab.
06/02/2022 - Congrats to Ibrahim for receiving the Chancellor's Research Fellowship to support his work in the Murn lab!
02/10/2022 - Jernej gives a seminar on RNA-binding proteins at the ASEF Speaker Series (in Slovenian!)
01/26/2022 - Our collaborative work with Cheloufi lab on regulation of chromatin accessibility by the histone chaperone CAF-1 is accepted at Nature Communications - great job Reuben, Shiyang et al!
12/31/2021 - Murn Lab receives an R01 grant from NIH/NIGMS to work on post-transcriptional control of neuronal morphogenesis.
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.
04/27/2021 - Dr. Chen Cai is joining our lab as a postdoc - welcome Chen!
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 Dr. 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