Congratulations to the Jiang Lab for the lasted publication entitled “The Notch-PDGFRβ axis suppresses brown adipocyte progenitor differentiation in early post-natal mice” published in Developmental Cell. Shi and Xiong et al. demonstrate that…
Congratulations to Dr. Dharma Pally, postdoctoral researcher in the Naba lab, for being the lead author on a review entitled “Extracellular matrix dynamics: a key regulator of cell migration across length-scales and systems”…
Congratulations to all our award winners from the 33rd Physiology Awards Night. Naiche Adler was the recipient of the Philip K Hawley Distinguished Faculty Award. PhD candidates Kelly Conger and Phillippa Burns won…
Professor Emerita, Mrinalini (Meena) Chatta Rao, is one of five outstanding scientists selected to receive the Distinguished Alumni Awards of the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) for the year 2023. Dr. Rao has…
Congratulations to Dr. Alexandra Naba on the promotion to the rank of Associate Professor. In 2016, Dr. Naba joined UIC and formed the Lab for Extracellular Matrix (ECM) Research. She is a founder…
Congratulations to Dr. Paul Goldspink on the promotion to the rank of Research Associate Professor. Dr. Goldspink, an alumnus of the department, rejoined the department as a faculty member in 2019. Since arriving…
Congratulations to Dr. Naba and her team on their latest article entitled “Matrisome AnalyzeR: A suite of tools to annotate and quantify ECM molecules in big datasets across organisms” published in the Journal…
Nandini Kapoor, rising senior in the Naba lab, has received a Liberal Arts and Sciences Undergraduate Research Initiative (LASURI) award for the 2023-2024 academic year! Nandini’s research will focus on studying the role…
Congratulations to Dr. Naba on the publication of her latest review entitled “10 years of extracellular matrix proteomics: Accomplishments, challenges, and future perspectives” published in Molecular and Cellular Proteomics. Dr. Naba’s review was…
Congratulations to Dr. Jiang and her team for their publication “Genetically prolonged beige fat in male mice confers long-lasting metabolic health” in Nature Communications! In this study, the authors show that inhibiting Cdkn2a-Becn1-mediated…