November 2025
- A collaborative paper with the laboratories of Drs. Yang Yi and Qi Cao is out in the Journal of Clinical Investigation! PMID: 41252201
- Congratulations to Marissa Walsh for receiving the Academic Year Research Grants (AYURG) from Northwestern University.
August 2025
- Pre-print alert on a collaborative work with the Parisiadou lab! “Leucine-rich repeat kinase 2 impairs the release sites of Parkinson’s disease vulnerable dopamine axons”
July 2025
- The lab receives the Lefkofsky Innovation Research Award
- The lab receives the NoA for the MIRA R35 grant application from NIGMS. Congratulations and thank you to all lab members for their continued efforts during these uncertain times!
June 2025
- Pre-print alert! “Targeted Inhibition of Translation Initiation via 2’O-Methylation of Start Codons”
- Congratulations to Marissa for receiving the Weinberg Student Grant. Great news in these uncertain times!
- We welcome Marissa to join our team as an Undergraduate Researcher.
May 2025
- Multiple grants went unfunded this month.
- Mahmood presented his recently submitted paper on how the RNA helicase activity of NAT10 promotes the biogenesis of hypomodified ribosomes in the Chicago RNA club.
April 2025
- A collaborative paper with the Parisiadou lab is out in Molecular Psychiatry! PMID: 40269187
- Paper submitted – The RNA Helicase Activity of NAT10 Promotes the Biogenesis of Hypomodified Ribosomes.
- The lab got a Stop order from the Department of Defense. We can no longer work on a DoD-funded project.
March 2025
- Adam graduates with a Master’s in Chemical Engineering! Congratulation Adam!
- Adam will continue in the lab as a Research Technician
- The lab had an R01 grant withdrawn due to an international component. Rules changed midway.
February 2025
- The lab obtained a fundable score in the MIRA R35 application.
- Daniel’s abstract was selected for an oral presentation in the GRC Translation Regulation meeting.
January 2025
- Mahmood’s abstract was accepted for an oral presentation at the ASBMB annual meeting. Congratulations Mahmood!
December 2024
- Hannah graduates with a Master’s in Bioinformatics. Congratulations Hannah!
- Farewell to Emmely Patrasso. Emmely will start her Ph.D. studies at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
November 2024
- Review out in collaboration with Dr. Bonini. Epigenetics, Epitranscriptomics, and metabolism. DOI: 10.1016/j.trecan.2024.08.005. PMID: 39277448
- We welcome Khulood Al-Zahrani to join our team as a Research Technologist III.
October 2024
- Daniel’s abstract is selected for an oral presentation at the AACR grantee’s summit in Philadelphia.
September 2024
- Farewell to Lea Landamm. Lea will return to finish her MD studies in Frankfurt, Germany.
July 2024
- Congratulations to Sharath on receiving the T32 Carcinogenesis training grant!
June 2024
- Congratulations to Sharath on passing his candidacy exam!
- Glad to collaborate with the Parisiadou lab – Pre-print alert! doi: 10.1101/2024.06.06.597594. PMID: 38895420
- We welcome Courtney Burres as a summer intern.
May 2024
- We welcome Lea Landamm as a visiting scholar from Frankfurt, Germany.
- Congratulations to Adam on graduating with a bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering!
April 2024
- Congratulations to Kevin on passing his candidacy exam!
- Our review is out in the journal Oncogene. doi: 10.1038/s41388-024-02975-9. PMID: 38409550
- Paper out in Molecular Cell. doi: 10.1016/j.molcel.2024.03.018. PMID: 38640896.
March 2024
- Congratulations to Mahmood on receiving the Katten Muchin Rosenman Travel Scholarship from the Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center.
- Congratulations to Emmely on being accepted at a couple of Ph.D. programs. Now Emmely needs to decide where to go!
February 2024
- A collaborative paper with the Barish lab is out in Nature Metabolism. doi: 10.1038/s42255-024-00983-3. PMID: 38337096
- Farewell to Dr. Sweta Raikundalia. Sweta joined Lund University as a postdoctoral researcher.
December 2023
- Our paper is out in Cell and Disease. doi: 10.1038/s41419-023-06342-6. PubMed PMID: 38092740
October 2023
- Arango lab becomes Green Lab certified!
June 2023
- Emmely Patrasso re-joins the lab as a post-bacc researcher.
June 2022
- Emmely successfully defended her Undergraduate thesis and obtained her degree at IMC University of Applied Sciences. Krems, Austria.
- Sharath Narayan joins the lab as a Ph.D. student in the DGP interdisciplinary life sciences program
- Hanna Serio joins the lab as a Research Technology
- Daisy Zarco and Max Guryan are our 2023 summer students!
May 2023
- Adam Receives the 2023 Chemistry of Life Sciences Summer Scholar Award.
- Mahmood Joins the lab as a Postdoctoral Fellow
April 2023
- Daniel receives the prestigious Searle Scholar Award from the Kinship Foundation
February 2023
- Our Review paper is accepted in Chromosoma. Patrasso EA, Raikundalia S, Arango D#. Regulation of the Epigenome Through RNA Modifications. (2023). Chromosoma. 132(3):231-246. # Corresponding.
January 2023
- Daniel makes it to finalist in the Howard Hughes Medical Institute Freeman Hrabowski Scholar competition.
November 2022
- Our protocol paper is accepted in STAR Protocols. Sturgill D*#, Arango D*#, Oberdoerffer S#. (2022). Base Resolution mapping of ac4C using RedaC:T-seq. STAR Protocols. 3(4): 101858. * Equal contribution. # Corresponding.
September 2022
- Sweta receives the best presentation award at the Annual Pharmacology Retreat at Northwestern.
August 2022
- Emmely Patrasso joins the lab as a visiting scholar from Austria
- Emmely receives the Austrian Marshall Plan Foundation Scholarship.
- Gael joins the world, and Daniel goes on paternity leave!
- The same day Gael is born, Daniel gets a V Scholar Grant funded
July 2022
- Daniel receives a Career Development Award to Further Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Cancer Research from American Association for Cancer Research (AACR).
- Kevin Receives a fellowship from the Biotechnology Training Grant at Northwestern University
June 2022
- Adam Suh joins the lab as an undergraduate student in in Chemical engineering
May 2022
- Kevin Vasquez joins the lab a Ph.D. student in Chemical engineering
April 2022
- Our paper is accepted in Molecular Cell. Arango D*, Sturgill D*, Yang R, Kanal T, Bauer P, Roy J, Wang M, Hosogane M, Schiffers S, Oberdoerffer S. (2022). Direct epitranscriptomic regulation of mammalian translation initiation through N4-acetylcytidine. Mol Cell. 8(15):2797-2814. * Equal contribution.
- The Arango lab receives a Pilot Project award for Junior URM Faculty from the American Cancer Society.
March 2022
- Sweta Raikundalia joins the lab as Postdoctoral Fellow
September 2021
- The Arango lab opens its doors.
- The Arango lab gets the R00 grant funded!