Bahmanyar lab News

November 2023: Not only is Sarah’s paper on CHMP-7 and BAF in nuclear envelope assembly out in JCS but she was featured in a first person interview, the article is featured in highlight AND the cover for the November issue!! Go Sarah!!! 

October 2023: Jake’s paper on mechanistic analysis of the master regulator of ER size is posted on bioRxiv! Thanks to Oby Uche and Shoken Lee for their contributions and our collaborators Shujuan Gao and Mike Airola at Stony Brook University.

September 2023: Shirin was featured in Nature Cell Biology. Check it out!

September 2023: Congratulations to Sarah for her paper acceptance! More to come soon!

June 2023: Sarah’s paper is live on bioRxiv! Check out her beautiful imaging with endogenous tags and mutants and overall stunning figures!

June 2023: Shoken’s paper is now out in JCB! Important work showing that direct membrane-protein interactions coupled to proteasomal degradation maintain the levels of a resident nuclear envelope protein!  He also developed the first lipid sensor for the inner nuclear membrane. 

September 2022: Shirin is the recipient of the 2022 Women in Cell Biology Junior Award for Research Excellence!  The amazing members of the lab both former and current made this possible! The entire lab will be attending ASCB in person this year to celebrate. 

July 2022: Shoken’s paper on lipid metabolism and regulation of resident nuclear envelope proteins is posted on biorxiv. Check out his elegant work on how the nuclear envelope lipid environment influences its protein composition and thus “identity.” Update: it is now published in JCB!

June 2022: Mike’s paper gets accepted at eLife!! Such beautiful work on nuclear pore complex assemby and membrane biogenesis to control nuclear formation and growth. Really a fantastic demonstration of what worms can teach us!!  BIG congratulations to Mike and the rest of the co-authors! 

May 2022:  We attend Mike’s official graduation from Yale Graduate School!  

May 2022: Sarah and Shirin attended the ASBMB ESCRT Conference at Madison Wisconsin. Sarah won a poster prize!! Shirin was an invited speaker in the “ESCRTs in nuclear envelope dynamics” session!

May 2022: Congratualtions to Oby on his graduation from Yale College! Oby is a recipient of the Edgar Boell prize for Excellence in Undergraduate Research!! His future is very bright!! And he is staying with us as a post graduate researcher for a year!

April 2022:  Sarah attends the long awaited CSHL Microscopy Course in person! Can’t wait to hear about everything she learned!

February 2022:  We celebrated Dr. Mike Mauro’s last day and although we are going to miss him in the lab we are very excited for his future! First stop is the Canman lab where he will be working on cytokinesis in worms! 

January 2022:  Sarah has been awarded the American Cancer Society Post-doctoral Fellowship to fund her research! 

November 2021:  Paper accepted at Developmental Cell! Congrats to first authors Holly Merta and Jake Carrasquillo Rodriguez and to all other authors! Woohoo!

September 2021: Check out our publication list for the latest review in TIBS by current post-doc Sarah Barger and former student Lauren Penfield! Congrats! 

September 2021:  BIG congratulations to Dr. Mike Mauro for defending his thesis! His work on nuclear pore complex biogenesis and growth is beautiful and so well done! Mike will be going to Dr. Julie Canman’s lab at Columbia for his post-doctoral work to work on mechanisms of cytokinesis.  So much to celebrate and be proud of!! 

August 2021: A bittersweet goodbye to Dr. Holly Merta as she embarks on the next stage of her scientific journey! We are excited to follow all her success in the Henne lab and beyond!

July 2021:  Excited about our preprint examining nuclear pore assembly after mitosis using early C elegans embryos! Check out Mike’s beautiful work and movies characterizing the role of the conserved transmembrane nucleoporin Ndc1 in formation of a functional nuclear envelope. Turns out C elegans embryos were the ideal system to reveal its function in post-mitotic nuclear pore complex assembly! As always, thanks to awesome collaborators  from Stefanie Redemann lab, the EM facility at Yale, and co-authors including lab alum Gunta Celma too!

June 2021: We’re delighted to welcome Han Yang as a post-graduate researcher in the lab! 

May/June 2021: Shirin and Sarah were able to go to Woods Hole to teach in the  C elegans module of the Embryology course with the Sherwood and Matus labs! Alum Mike Martinez was there as a student and we got to meet and interact with so many awesome people. 

May 2021: Congratulations to the Bahmanyar lab graduate student Holly Merta for being awarded the MCDB Spangler Award for Outstanding PhD Thesis “Analyzing the role of ER biogenesis in mitotic fidelity!” Super well-deserved!!!!

April 2021: Big congratulations to Oby for being awarded the Michael Manzella Foundation Summer Fellowship to do research in the lab this summer!

April 2021: We are absolutely thrilled that graduate student Victória Puccini has chosen our lab as her thesis lab! 

March 2021: We have some news to share! Tevis Vitale has accepted an offer from Harvard’s BBS program for graduate school. We’re so happy for you Tevis!!

March 2021: Excited about our biorxiv preprint from graduate students Holly Merta and Jake Carrasquillo-Rodriguez with help from post-graduate researcher Tevis Vitale! They show the importance of  mitotic ER membrane reorganization to prevention of mitotic errors through limiting ER membrane biogenesis.  With our awesome collaborators Maya Anjur-Dietrich and Dan Needleman at Harvard University and Mitch Granade and Thurl Harris at University of Virginia we uncover the mechanism by which ER membranes interfere with mitotic error correction and begin to elucidate how ER membrane biogenesis is regulated.  Check it out!

February 2021: A HUGE congratulations to Holly Merta for defending her thesis! What a beautiful body of work on elucidating the regulation of lipid synthesis in coordinating mitotic ER reorganization. Dr. Merta will be joining the Henne lab at UTSW later this year! Hooray!

January 2021: Happy New Year! Welcome to rotation student Anjana Rajkumar Kammath! Thanks for choosing our lab!

October 2020: Welcome to rotation student Victoria Puccini de Castro! We’re excited to have you in the lab.

September 2020: Welcome to rotation student Emily Guinn! We’re really happy to have you rotating in the lab.

June 2020: Congratulations to Bahmanyar lab graduate student Lauren Penfield for being awarded the MCDB Spangler Award for Outstanding PhD Thesis “Mechanisms of nuclear envelope remodeling in C elegans!” What a fantastic and well-deserved honor!

May 2020: Shirin will give a Zoom seminar on May 19th at 4pm Paris Time for the “Nucleus Science Talks” seminar series organized by Patricia Davidson. Check out the twitter handle @NucleusSciTalks for more info.

April 2020: Keep your eye out for a recently accepted MBoC Perspective entitled “Lipid and protein dynamics that shape nuclear envelope identity” co-authored by Shirin and Christian Schlieker (MB&B, Yale University).

April 2020: Shoken and Shirin write a Viewpoint article for Biochemistry invited by Alanna Schepartz about the most recent Science paper from Gia Voeltz’s lab.  Check our publication list for more details!

March 2020: We are sad to shut down the lab but we know it’s the best thing to do for the health and safety of the community.  

March 2020: Lauren’s paper gets accepted at JCB! Check our publication list for updates.

December 2019: A bittersweet goodbye to Bahmanyar lab’s first graduate student Dr. Lauren Penfield as she transitions into her post-doc position in Denise Montell’s lab at UCSB. We can’t wait to learn about all her success in the years to come!

December 2019: Many Bahmanyar lab members are attending the ASCB|EMBO Meeting in Washington DC.  Shirin is giving a talk and Holly, Jake, Lauren and Mike are all presenting posters. 

November 2019: Big congrats to Jake who passed his qualifying exam!   

October 2019:  We are delighted to welcome Dr. Sarah Barger to the lab! Sarah is joining our lab as a post-doctoral associate. Her PhD work was in Dr. Mira Krendel’s laboratory at SUNY Upstate Medical University where she examined the role of myosin-I in phagocytosis and endocytosis.

October 2019:  Congratulations to Holly for winning a Poster Prize at the 2019 MCDB Departmental Retreat!

September 2019: Lauren defends her thesis and gives a most fantastic presentation! We celebrated her acheivements with family, friends, and colleagues. Congratulations to Dr. Penfield!

September 2019: Lauren’s manuscript on lipid synthesis and nuclear envelope closure is online! https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/757013v1

August 2019: Shirin travels to Scotland for the Nuclear Transport Meeting.  We say goodbye to Chenlei Hu who came from Peking University to do her summer research in the lab.  

July 2019: We welcome to Dr. Shoken Lee! Shoken is joining our lab as a post-doctoral associate. His PhD work was in Dr. Arai’s laboratory at the University of Tokyo where he discovered a phosphatidylserine translocase required for transport through endosomes.

June 2019: Shirin goes to Woods Hole to serve as an instructor in the C elegans module of the Embryology Course. Amazing students, instructors, course directors and TAs.  And, of course, atmosphere.

May 2019: Razvan receives his MS degree and is off to medical school! We wish him all the best!

March 2019. Congratulations to Tevis Vitale for being awarded a Yale College Dean’s Research Fellowship and a Richter Fellowship from Morse College to perfrom research in our lab this summer!

March 2019.  Jake Carrasquillo Rodriguez joins the lab as Bahmanyar lab’s fourth graduate student!

March 2019. We are happy to welcome rotation student Ryan Nguyen from the PEB program and post-graduate researcher Gunta Celma!

January 2019. We are hiring! Please apply if you are interested in our work.

January 2019. Happy New Year! Welcome to our rotation student Alyssa Laffitte.

December 2018. Shirin, Mike, Holly, Lauren and Lena attended ASCB in San Diego. Everyone presented a poster or gave a talk.  Shirin co-organized a successful subgroup with Chirstian Schlieker (MB&B).

November 2018. Shirin is awarded an NSF CAREER Award for the lab’s work on nuclear rupture and repair in C. elegans. 

-Welcome to our three rotation students Aparaajita Balaji, Cecelia Harold and Jake Rodriguez!

October 2018. Our collaborative paper with the Bewersdorf lab on ER nanoscale structure and dynamics is now in press at JCB! This was such a fun collaboration - be on the look out for future collaborative projects between the Bahmanyar and Bewersdorf labs!

-Shirin, Joerg and Lena attended the EMBO ER meeting in Italy.  Shirin gave a talk on Holly and Marshall’s work and Lena presented a poster on our collaborative STED-ER project.

September 2018.  Interview with Shirin for Peer Review week 2018.

September 2018. We love the article Lukas Corey Yale College 2021 wrote about our work in Yale Scientific Magazine.  Check it out!

August 2018:  Welcome to Tevis Vitale Yale College 2020, who joins the lab as an undergraduate researcher.

July 2018: Shirin in the news

-Goodbye and good luck to Marshall, who leaves to be with his family in Germany. We wish you all the best in your future endeavors!

-Shirin, Lauren, Mike, and Razvan designed and led a week-long summer workshop called “Model Organisms in Biology: The Mighty Worm” for Pathways to Science Summer Scholars. Local New Haven students participated in hands-on activities that provided a lens into what it’s like to work in our lab. They also built their own foldscopes!   Check out the photos!

May 2018:  Shirin attends the CSHL Nuclear Organization and Function meeting and presents Holly’s new work on ER biogenesis and nuclear envleope reformation .

-Curtis leaves to begin medical school at Washington University at St. Louis.  Congrats, Curtis!

April 2018: Shirin gives a “Spotlight Talk” about our collaborative work with the Bewersdorf lab at the 2018 ASBMB meeting in San Diego. 

-Congratulations to Razvan was accepted into the Rosenfeld Science Scholars program and awarded a fellowship for summer research in the Bahmanyar lab!

-Holly arranged a partnership between Yale Open Labs and Thermo Fisher Scientific to bring pairs of goggles, gloves, lab aprons, and lab notebooks to 200 middle and high school students in the New Haven area!

January 2018: Lauren’s paper on lamin and dynein’s opposing roles during nuclear envelope repair is in press at MBoC! Check out her paper and the Yale News story on the work!

January 2018: Our proposal to lead a summer workshop through the Yale Pathways to Science Summer Scholars program was accepted! Mike, Lauren, Razvan and I will be co-teaching  local high school students about the tools and advantages C. elegans offers to answer fundamental questions about life.   A BIG thanks to Curtis who is helping design the module from his experience teaching in MCDB221L with Professor Moreno!

December 2017: Shirin gives a talk on our collaborative work with the Bewersdorf lab in the Microscopy Workshop at this year’s ASCB meeting.

October 2017: Welcome MS/BS student Razvan Azamfirei!

September 2017: Our collaborative paper with the Bewersdorf lab is now on biorxiv: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/early/2017/09/20/191536

August 2017: Shirin gives talk at the Pleiotropic Nuclear Envelope meeting in Edinburgh, Scotland, a great meeting sponsored by the Biochemical Society.

June 2017: Congratulations to Lauren who won a poster prize at the GSA 21st International C elegans conference in CA.  Both Mike and Lauren attended the meeting with great success.

May 2017: Check out our first preprint on bioRxiv 138693! Update Jan 2018: this paper is now in press!

January 2017: We welcome rotation students Nancy and Emma to the lab (MCGD/BBS program).

December 2016: Congratulations to Holly and Mike for passing their qualifying exam!

November 2016: Welcome to Alex and Andres, two new rotation students in the lab (MCGD/BBS program).

October 2016: We won Best Lab Costume at the MCDB Happy Hour Halloween Edition. Thanks to the Handelsman and Horsley labs for throwing an awesome Happy Hour.

October 2016: Shirin hosts Julie Canman from Columbia University at the MCDB Seminar Series. She gave a fantastic talk on PAR proteins and cytokinesis.

October 2016: Lauren wins a Poster Prize at MCDB Retreat. Congrats Lauren!

September 2016: Lauren presents a talk on her work at the ASCB sponsored local New England Nuclear Envelope meeting. Marshall was one of the co-organizers along with members of the Lusk, King, Carroll and Folker (Boston College) labs. Thanks also to MCDB/Yale for their support of the meeting.

June 2016: A (2nd) goodbye to Brian Wysolmerski who will be traveling the world this coming year!

June 2016: Welcome Spencer Munroe Yale College 2018

May 2016: Congratulations to Curtis on graduating from Yale College 2016! We’re very proud that Curtis was awarded the Senior Thesis Prize in the Sciences from Jonathan Edwards College on his work in the lab. We’re also very happy that he is coming back to the lab as a post-graduate researcher in the Fall.

March 2016: We are excited to welcome Holly Merta and Michael Mauro, two new BBS/MCGD graduate students, to the lab!

January 2016: Michael Martinez has taken a post-grad position at West Campus. We’re excited for him and his future research endeavors!

September 2015: Welcome back to Brian Wysolmerski who completed his Masters Degree in Julie Ahringer’s lab at Cambridge University and is spending a year back in our lab as a Post-Graduate Researcher.

July 2015: Welcome rotation student Jonathan Marquez (MD/PhD Program).

June 2015: Shirin goes to Woods Hole MA to take part in the Physiology Course with Joe Howard and colleagues.

May 2015: A BIG congratulations to Sophie Miller (Yale College, Class of 2015) for being awarded the MCDB Major Undergraduate Research Prize (Edgar J. Boell Prize) for her work in the lab.

April 2015: Marshall Deline from Jenny Watts’ lab at WSU will be funded by the Anderson Post-Doctoral Associate Fellowship starting in July. Curtis Broberg Yale College ‘16 received the Yale College Dean’s Summer Research Fellowship to fund his research this summer. Welcome Marshall and Curtis!

March 2015: Lauren Penfield joins the lab as the first graduate student.

January 2015: Ringing in the New Year with Michael Martinez (post graduate researcher) and Amanda Vines (rotation student). Welcome!

September 2014: Brian Wysolmerski takes off to Cambridge and Amelia Trant starts as an undergraduate in the lab. Welcome Amelia!

July 2014: Bahmanyar lab is officially open!

June 2014: Welcome post-grad Brian Wysolmerski

April 2014: Sophie Miller received the Yale College Dean Research Fellowship and Richter Summer Fellowship to fund her research this summer. Great job

April 2014: Bahmanyar lab is growing - welcome to Suyuna Ren and Sophie Miller!

March 2014: Check out Bahmanyar lab updates through twitter and tweet at us. @Bahmanyarlab

January 2014: Bahmanyar lab website is up! Contact us if you are interested in getting to know more about the lab.