Whitney (Tsai Lab) was awarded the prestigious 2025 Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) Gilliam Fellowship.
CDB Award Winners
Back row left: Tai-Ting Woo (Research Fellow in Tsai lab)
Congratulations to Jay Chen!
For his promotion to Research Assistant Professor
Congratulations to Kaitlyn!
Kaitlyn Speckhart successfully defended her thesis, “Mechanistic insights into how a DNA and RNA virus hijack the cellular secretory pathway to cause infection,” on March 5, 2025.
Congratulations to Renaldo Sutanto!
Renaldo has received the American Heart Association Predoctoral Fellowship.
Congratulations to Dr. Jeff Knupp and Dr. Jay Chen!
Their work, ‘Sigma-1 receptor recruits LC3 mRNA to ER-associated omegasomes to promote localized LC3 translation enabling functional autophagy’, was published in Cell Reports on August 10, 2024.
Congratulations to Jeff!
Jeff successfully defended his thesis, “How the endoplasmic reticulum promotes autophagy with insights illuminating basic human disease mechanisms” on May 24, 2024.
Congratulations to Madison!
Madison successfully defended her thesis, “An Endoplasmic Reticulum Junctional Structure Supports Nuclear Protein Quality Control and Viral Pathogenesis” on April 18, 2024.
Welcome Dr. Cheng, Emily, Whitney and Luke to the Tsai lab!
Welcome Dr. Chao-Yin Cheng, Emily Wang, Whitney Reid, and Luke Gohmann to the team!
Congratulations to Emily Wang!
Congratulations to Emily Wang for receiving the NSF fellowship.