Yap Laboratory

Latest News

• July 2024: 🎈🍾Szu-Yu was one of the 2 Poster Award Winners (selected from~140 posters) at the GRC-Microbial Stress Response conference. Well done and congrats on the research recognition. 👏👏
• July 2024: 🎈🍾Anna’s paper published in Nucleic Acids Research, and Alex’s collaborative paper with Zhang’s Lab published in mSystems. Congrats to both🍾🎉
• May 2024: With mixed feelings we bid farewell to Sat. Good luck in Aberdeen! You will be missed!
• March 2024: Ria Almohtadi starts her 10-wk lab rotation. Welcome aboard!
• Jan 2024: 🎊Former tech Kate’s work published in PLOS Pathogens!
• Oct 2023: The 29th Annual Midwest Microbial Pathogenesis Conference (MMPC) held at Northwestern U was a grand success despite the initial AV issue. Thanks to all the support from the Dept Micro-Immunol and Basic Science Administration.
• May 2023: 🥂Congrats to Szu-Yu Kuan (the first graduate student at Northwestern) for passing her PhD qualifying exam.
• October 2022: 🍾Congrats to David Ranava for being awarded an NIH Abstract Award from the 28th Annual Midwest Microbial Pathogenesis Conference (2022 MMPC) held at UW-Madison.
• September 2022: 🍾Congrats to David Ranava for his research published in PNAS with our fantastic collaborators (Drs. Stephan Sieber and Sabine Schneider).
• September 2022: Rotational DGP student Sharath Narayan joins the lab-Welcome!
• September 2022: 🍾Congratulations to Anna for the co-author paper in Molecular Cell led by Ben-Sahra’s Lab.
• September 2022: 🎉We are grateful for receiving the renewal of our R01 grant from NIH/NIGMS.
• August 2022: 🎊Thank you to NIGMS for funding a capital equipment supplement grant.
• July 2022: 🍾Congrats to David Ranava for his conference abstract award from the GRC-Microbial Stress Response.
• June 2022: Welcome to Szu-Yu Kuan for joining the lab as the first graduate student at NU.
• April 2022: 🍾Our collaborative work (w/ Cruz-Vera’s lab) on ribosomal exit tunnel is published in Microbiology Spectrum.
• September 2021: DGP student Szu-Yu Kuan rotates in the lab- Welcome!
• June 2021: 🍾Congrats to Anna for her first-author paper published in mBio.
• June 2021: Postdoc fellow Sat Chodha (hails from UK, Hwang’s lab ) joins the lab- Welcome!
• April 2021: Postdoc fellow Alex Le Scornet  (hails from France, Redder’s lab) joins the lab -Welcome!
• September 2020: 🎉Yap lab is awarded a new R01 grant from NIAID. Thank you NIH!
• August 2020: 🎊Yap lab receives an administrative equipment supplement from the NIH to purchase a Typhoon 5 multimode Molecular Imager. Thank you NIGMS!
• May 2020: 🍾Congrats to former postdoc Arnab Basu and former technician Kate Shields for their joint paper published in Journal of Biological Chemistry (JBC).
• Spring 2020: COVID pandemic hits.
• Fall 2019: Drs. David Ranava (alum from Ieva’s lab) and Anna Liponska  (alum from Putzer’s & Boël’s Labs) join as the first two members of Yap Lab at NU.
• August 2019: Yap Lab officially moves from Saint Louis University Biochem to Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine.