Lab News

April, 2025

Congrats to Daniel on passing his qualifying exam!

March, 2025

Graduate student Miriam Stein joins the lab - welcome Miriam!

Specialized mitochondria localize to filopodia

March, 2025

Our work identifying a subpopulation of compositionally unique mitochondria is published in Current Biology!

Read the March 2025 paper

January, 2025

Congratulations to Dr. Alia Edington on her thesis defense!

Identification of a new player in mitochondrial fission

December 2024

Our work identifying a new factor that helps mediate mitochondrial fission is published in Journal of Cell Biology!

Read the December 2024 paper
JCB Session at Cell Bio 2024, Cell states across scales, Sat. Dec 14

December, 2024

Jonathan and Alia travel to ASCB to present some of the latest work from the lab

September, 2024

Abhishek was selected to present his work at the UTSW Postdoc Symposium

July, 2024

Congratulations to Madeleine on her thesis defense!

May 2024

Our work identifying a dynamin-like protein that helps maintain cristae shape is published in Current Biology!

Read the May 2024 paper

April, 2024

The lab proudly celebrates its first graduating PhD student! Congrats Oguz on a successful thesis defense!!!

March, 2024

Madeleine receives a travel award to present her work at ASBMB!

March, 2024

Oguz is awarded with the 2024 Letia Marsh Pharmacological Award for his graduate school achievements! Congrats Oguz!

December, 2023

Alia and Abhishek travel to ASCB/Cell Bio 2023 to present their work!

October, 2023

Abhishek's work identifying a new class of protein that shapes mitochondrial cristae is posted on BioRxiv!

Read the October 2023 paper

July 2023

Oguz and Jonathan travel to the Molecular Membrane Gordon Research Conference to present work from the lab

May 2023

Our work identifying Mdi1 as an internal mitochondrial fission factor was written up as a preLight!

Read the preLight article

April 2023

Olivia and Srujan's discovery of an intermembrane space protein required for mitochondrial division is posted on BioRxiv

Check out our preprint on Mdi1

March, 2023

Jonathan travels to the ASBMB annual meeting in Seattle to present our latest work on mitochondrial dynamics

February, 2023

Jonathan travels to Cornell University and Weill Medical College to present the lab's work. Thanks to Anant Menon and Martin Graef for the invitations and Jeremy Baskin for the photo!

December, 2022

Alia wins first place for graduate students in the ASCB Minorities Affairs Committee poster competition! Congrats Alia!

December, 2022

Alia, Oguz, Madeleine, and Jonathan travel to the ASCB annual meeting. Oguz gives a talk on mitophagy and Alia shares a poster of her work on mitochondrial dynamics