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.
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.
Talk at the Fragile Nucleosome Seminar
Vikram Paralkar gives a talk on rRNA transcriptional regulation at the Fragile Nucleosome Seminar series. Many thanks to Ben Martin and team for organizing this amazing forum and series of talks!
Talk at University of Michigan
Vikram Paralkar gives a talk on hematopoietic and leukemic transcriptional regulation to the University of Michigan Division of Hematology-Oncology. Many thanks to Shannon Carty for the invitation!
Talk at CAMB Penn Cancer Research Series
Aishwarya Pawar, PhD student, presents a talk on chromatin regulator mutations in acute myeloid leukemia to the Cell and Molecular Biology Graduate Group at the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine.
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.
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.
