The Barr Lab

Rotation student Leah Dobossy decided to join the Barr lab. We are so excited!!!

Maureen co-organized the GSA TAGC24 meeting with Harmit Malik. Most of the lab headed to Washington DC. Carlos won the poster grand prize from the C. elegans topic meeting.This was Carlos' first science conference!

Maureen co-organized the GSA TAGC24 meeting with Harmit Malik. Most of the lab headed to Washington DC. Elizabeth won a poster prize from the C. elegans topic meeting! (Photo bomb by Kade and Leah)

We hosted Dr. Deanna DeVore (Barr lab PhD 2018) and her amazing high school juniors that attend Passaic County Technical Institute. We hope to make this an annual partnership.

Congratulations to Kaiden Power who defended his thesis in December! He will do a postdoc studying glia in Max Heiman's lab at Boston Children's/Harvard Genetics.

Barr lab has been busy! Inna Nikonorova's epic EV profiling paper was published in Current Biology. Jonathon Walsh received a PKD Foundation postdoctoral fellowship; Kade Power was awarded an NIH F31 predoctoral fellowship. Inna and Jonathon gave talks at the…

The Barr lab has been making lemonade out of lemons this past pandemic year. In March 2020, we quickly locked down thanks to our super lab manager Gloria Androwski and the dauer worms. During work from home, we focused on…

Welcome to postdoc Dr. Inna Nikonorova who joined us in July 2019. Inna is isolating and profiling ciliary extracellular vesicles. To learn more about Inna, read this profile piece in JBC http://www.jbc.org/content/294/38/13864/suppl/DCAuthor_profile Dr. Jonathon Walsh is an NIH-IRACDA postdoctoral fellow who…

Barr lab is looking for new postdocs who are brilliant, motivated, and fearless at the bench! We landed a new NIH grant on Nephronophthisis-related ciliopathies and ciliary compartmentalization. Juan Wang received a grant from the NIH-funded Kansas PKD Center. Bob…

The Barr lab welcomes new graduate student Kumar Tiger!! Malan Silva spectacularly defended his Ph.D. dissertation. Congratulations Dr. Silva Malan Silva’s paper was published in Current Biology. In collaboration with Hall (AECOM) and Rongo (Rutgers) laboratory, Malan discovered that a cell-specific…