News

2024

January

  • Leon's review is published in Current Opinion in Structural Biology.

2023

December
  • Hee Jong has successfully defended his PhD thesis. Congratulations!
August
  • Kenji gave a talk at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory meeting Mechanisms of Eukaryotic Transcription 2023.
June
  • Linh has officially become a lab member.
May
  • Hee Jong and Leon gave talk at Structural Biology Symposium at Penn.
March
  • Leon has been awarded an NIH F31, an Individual Predoctoral Fellowship from the NIGMS. Congratulations!
February
  • Jose and Leon's paper is published in Molecular Cell. Congratulations!
  • Graduate student Briana Cruga joins the lab for the winter rotation. Welcome!
January
  • Graduate student Elie Mer joins the lab for the winter rotation. Welcome!

2022

October
September

  • Leon presented a poster at ASBMB transcription-chromatin meeting 'Transcriptional regulation: Chromatin and RNA polymerase II' held in Snowbird, Utah.

August

  • Andy has officially become a lab member.

  • Graduate student Linh Pham joins the lab for the fall rotation. Welcome!

  • Our collaboration paper with the Lieberman lab (Wistar Institute) is published.

April

  • Graduate student Andy Nguyen joins us for the summer rotation. Welcome!

March

  • Samah has been awarded a Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program Fellowship. Congrats!

  • Kenji received funding from University Research Foundation. 

  • Undergraduate student William Zhang joined our lab, Welcome!

February

  • Our paper has been published in Molecular Cell. Kenji's interview has also been posted.

  • Kenji received a co-PI grant from the National Science Foundation with Jung Hyun Min at Baylor University.

2021

December
  • Leon won the 2nd place poster prize in Biophysics at 2021 Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics/BMB graduate group retreat. Congratulations! 
July

  • Rina has defended her PhD thesis and starts her post-doc study. Congratulations and good luck!

June

  • Undergraduate student Samah Sharmin joined the lab. Welcome!

  • Trevor's paper is published in Nature Communications. Congratulations!

  • Our collaboration paper with the Christianson lab (UPenn) is published in Nature Communications!

May

  • Leon passed his prelim. Congratulations!

  • Chun and Rina's paper came out in bioRxiv.

  • Trevor has defended his PhD thesis and leaving for Rockefeller University for his post-doc study. Congratulations and good luck!

April　
March　
  • Graduate student Athena Zhang joined us for the spring rotation. Welcome!
February
  • Our collaboration paper with the Daldal lab (UPenn) is published in Nature Communications.
  • Undergraduate student Kenneth Newman joined our lab. Welcome!
January

2020

August
  • Hee Jong has been awarded an NIH F31, an Individual Predoctoral Fellowship from the NIA. Congratulations!
July
  • Leon has officially become our lab member as a joint student with the Chang lab. Welcome!
June
January
  • Graduate student Leon Palao III joined us for the winter rotation. Welcome!

2019

December
  • Rina won the best poster award at 2019 Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics/BMB graduate group retreat. Congratulations! 
October
September
  • Postdoc Chun Yang joins our lab. Welcome!
August
  • Kenji and Rina presented at the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Meeting on Mechanisms of Eukaryotic Transcription.
July
  • Graduate student Trevor Van Eeuwen presented a poster at the CBI Symposium.
  • Our collaboration paper with the Black lab (UPenn) is published in Current Biology.
  • Research Specialist Laura Snyder leaves our lab and will be moving on to graduate school at University of Michigan. Good luck!
June
  • Hee Jong receives the United States-Israel Binational Science Foundation (BSF) travel grant.
April
  • Graduate student Jose Gorbea is awarded the National Science Foundation (NSF) graduate research fellowship.
  • Graduate student Hee Jong Kim is awarded NIH Chemistry-Biology Interface (CBI) graduate training fellowship.
  • Graduate student Rina Fujiwara's paper is published in Methods. 

2018

October
  • Kenji gave a talk at the ASBMB Symposium on Transcriptional Regulation by Chromatin and RNA Polymerase II in Snowbird, Utah.

2017

December
  • Nivedita's paper is published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
August 
  • Research Specialist Nivedita Damodaren has left and moved on to graduate school at UCLA.

2015

January
  • The Murakami lab officially begins at the University of Pennsylvania.