


Poster Presentations at ASH
Post-Doctoral Researchers Sapana Jalnapurkar (ASH Restart Award recipient) and Charles Antony (ASH Scholar Award recipient) present posters of their work on chromatin and rRNA transcription regulation in hematopoiesis and leukemia at the American Society of Hematology 2022 Annual Meeting in New Orleans.

Undergraduate Student Awarded Research Grant
Aleena Alex, UPenn undergraduate student, is awarded the Center for Undergraduate Research and Fellowships (CURF) Award to study PHD domain point mutations in chromatin regulators in leukemia.

Publication in Molecular Cell
Publication of “Control of ribosomal RNA synthesis by hematopoietic transcription factors” in MOLECULAR CELL by Charles Antony, Post-Doctoral Researcher, as first author, and with contributions from Subin George, Justin Blum, Patrick Somers, Chelsea Thorsheim, and Dexter Wu-Corts from the Paralkar Lab..

Graduate Student Awarded Best Poster Presentation
Aishwarya Pawar, PhD student, is awarded the Best Poster Presentation for Cancer Biology at the Cell and Molecular Biology Graduate Group Symposium 2022 for her presentation on chromatin occupancy and regulation by PHF6 in leukemia.

Talks at UPenn Heme Malignancies Research in Progress meeting
Sapana Jalnapurkar, Post-Doctoral Researcher, and Aishwarya Pawar, PhD Student, present talks on work in mouse and human cell line models on the role of the chromatin regulation PHF6 in leukemia at the UPenn Heme Malignancies Research in Progress meeting.

Grant from Abramson Family Cancer Research Institute
The Paralkar Lab is awarded a Pilot Research Grant by the Abramson Family Cancer Research Institute to perform a CRISPR tiling mutagenesis screen to dissect ribosome biogenesis regulation in leukemia. This grant is in collaboration with the laboratory of Junwei Shi, Department of Cancer Biology, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine.

Collaborative publication in Blood Cancer Discovery
Publication by laboratory of Stuart Orkin and Max Pimkin of “Transcriptional Plasticity Drives Leukemia Immune Escape” in BLOOD CANCER DISCOVERY with contribution from Paralkar Lab.

Talk at Penn and CHOP Retreat
Vikram Paralkar gives a talk on ribosome biogenesis in leukemia gives a talk at the Penn and CHOP Hematological Malignancies Program Annual Retreat.

Talk at FASEB Nuclear Bodies Conference
Vikram Paralkar gives a talk on nucleolar biology in hematopoiesis and leukemia at the FASEB Nuclear Bodies conference at Nova Scotia, Canada.

Poster Presentations at Penn
Aishwarya Pawar, Ph.D. student, and Charles Antony, Post-Doctoral Researcher, present posters on transcriptional and ribosome biogenesis regulation in hematopoiesis and leukemia at the UPenn Department of Medicine Research Day 2022.

Talk at University of Colorado
Vikram Paralkar visits the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus and gives a talk on ribosomal regulation in hematopoiesis. Much gratitude to Patricia Ernst for the invitation!

Talk at Penn Cell and Developmental Biology Retreat
Charles Antony, Post-Doctoral Researcher, presents a talk on regulation of rRNA transcription by CEBPA at the Cell and Developmental Biology Departmental Retreat for the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine.

Talk at University of California, San Diego
Vikram Paralkar pays a virtual visit to the University of California, San Diego (UCSD), and gives a talk to the Division of Regenerative Medicine on transcriptional regulation in hematopoiesis. Many thanks to Rob Signer for the invitation!

Collaborative publication in Genes and Development
Publication by laboratory of Stuart Orkin and Max Pimkin of “A distinct core regulatory module enforces oncogene expression in KMT2A-rearranged leukemia” in GENES & DEVELOPMENT, with contribution from Paralkar Lab.

Talks and Poster Presentations at ASH
Vikram Paralkar gives a talk at the Scientific Workshop on Myeloid Development at the American Society of Hematology Annual Meeting 2021. Charles Antony, Post-Doctoral Researcher, and Aishwarya Pawar, PhD Student, present posters on rRNA transcription and chromatin regulation in leukemia.

Post-Doctoral Researcher awarded ASH Scholar Award
Charles Antony, Post-Doctoral Researcher, is awarded a Basic Research Fellow Scholar Award by the American Society of Hematology.

Talk at ASBMB conference
Vikram Paralkar gives a talk at the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (ASBMB) conference on Emerging roles of the nucleolus.

Post-Doctoral Researcher awarded ASH Restart Award
Sapana Jalnapurkar, Post-Doctoral Researcher, is awarded a Research Restart Award by the American Society of Hematology.

Talk at FASEB meeting
Vikram Paralkar gives a talk on the role of CEBPA in ribosomal RNA regulation at the FASEB Hematological Malignancies Conference.

Collaborative Publication in Cell Stem Cell
Laboratory of Wei Tong, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, publishes “HectD1 controls hematopoietic stem cell regeneration by coordinating ribosome assembly and protein synthesis” in CELL STEM CELL with contribution from Charles Antony and Vikram Paralkar from the Paralkar Lab.

Poster Presentations at Penn
Charles Antony and Sapana Jalnapurkar, Post-Doctoral Researchers, present posters on ribosomal RNA regulation and leukemia mouse models at the University of Pennsylvania Department of Medicine Research Day 2021.

Talk at Keystone Symposium
Vikram Paralkar gives a talk on the role of transcription factors in regulating ribosomal RNA at the Keystone Symposium on Hematopoiesis.

Talk at the Heme Malignancies Research in Progress meeting
Charles Antony, Post-Doctoral Researcher, presents a talk about work on transcriptional regulation of ribosomal RNA at the University of Pennsylvania Heme Malignancies Research in Progress meeting.

Grant from National Institutes of Health
The Paralkar Lab is awarded a Co-Operative Center for Excellence in Hematology (CCEH) grant by the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to model the effect of RUNX1 point mutations on mouse hematopoietic stem and progenitor cells.

Grant from National Institutes of Health
The Paralkar Lab is awarded an R01 grant by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to study the role of the chromatin binding and nucleolar protein PHF6 in the regulation of HSC self-renewal and myeloid differentiation.

Presentations at ASH
Sapana Jalnapurkar and Charles Antony, Post-Doctoral Researchers, present oral talk and poster presentation respectively at the American Society of Hematology Annual Meeting 2020.

Grant from National Institutes of Health
The Paralkar Lab is awarded a MIRA R35 grant by the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to study the regulation of ribosomal RNA transcription in mammalian tissues.

Poster Presentations at Penn
Sapana Jalnapurkar and Charles Antony, Post-Doctoral Researchers, present posters at the University of Pennsylvania Department of Medicine Research Day 2020.

Grant from American Cancer Society
The Paralkar Lab receives funding through the American Cancer Society Institutional Research Grant to study the role of PHF6 in acute myeloid leukemia.

Publication in Blood
The Paralkar Lab publishes “Regulation of gene expression by miR-144/451 during mouse erythropoiesis” in BLOOD, in collaboration with the laboratory of Mitchell Weiss, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital.

Presentation at ASH
Patrick Somers, Research Specialist, presents a poster at the American Society of Hematology Annual Meeting 2019.