Grant from National Institutes of Health

Charles Antony, Post-Doctoral Researcher, is awarded a Co-Operative Center for Excellence in Hematology (CCEH) Type B grant by the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to study transcription factor dynamics and regulation in primary human bone marrow.
Poster presentation at CAMB symposium

Aishwarya Pawar, PhD student, presents a poster at the Cell and Molecular Biology Graduate Group Symposium 2023 on regulation of leukemia stemness by the chromatin factor PHF6.
Equipment award from National Institutes of Health

The Paralkar Lab is awarded an equipment award by the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to purchase a dedicated Sony benchtop SH800 cell flow sorter.
Talk at CAMB Penn Cancer Research Series

Charles Antony, Post-Doctoral Researcher, presents a talk on rRNA regulation in hematopoiesis to the Cell and Molecular Biology Graduate Group at the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine.
Poster Presentation at Penn CURF

Aleena Alex, UPenn undergraduate student, presents a poster at the Center for Undergraduate Research and Fellowships (CURF) Fall Research Expo on her work on PHD domain point mutations in chromatin regulators in leukemia.
Poster Presentations at ISEH

Post-Doctoral Researcher Charles Antony and graduate student Aishwarya Pawar present posters of their work on chromatin and rRNA transcription regulation in hematopoiesis and leukemia at the International Society of Experimental Hematology 2023 Annual Meeting in New York.
Talk at FASEB Hematological Malignancies Conference

Vikram Paralkar gives a talk on the role of CEBPA in rRNA transcriptional regulation in hematopoiesis and leukemia at the FASEB Hematological Malignancies Conference at Southbridge, Massachusetts. Many thanks to organizers Britta Will and Alejandro Gutierrez.
Publication in STAR Protocols

Publication of “FISH-Flow to quantify nascent and mature ribosomal RNA in mouse and human cells“ in STAR PROTOCOLS by Charles Antony, Patrick Somers, and Erin Gray in the Paralkar Lab.
Talk at the Penn Epigenetics Institute

Charles Antony, Post-Doctoral Researcher, presents a talk on rDNA and rRNA regulation to the Penn Epigenetics Institute at the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine.
Publication in the Journal of Biological Chemistry

Publication of “Construction and validation of customized genomes for human and mouse ribosomal DNA mapping” in JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY by Subin George in the Paralkar Lab.