January 2018
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 O’Hagan published a Current Biology paper on tubulin modifying enzymes that regulate the structure and function […]
April 2017
Malan Silva spectacularly defended his Ph.D. dissertation (photo with Maureen and Dave Hall). Congratulations Dr. Silva. His paper was published in Current Biology. In collaboration with Hall (AECOM) and Rongo (Rutgers) laboratory, Malan discovered that a cell-specific tubulin isotype sculpts ciliary microtubules, controls intraflagellar transport, and regulates extracellular vesicle bioactivity.
May 2017
Juan Wang will present a talk on “Social Extracellular Vesicles” at the International C. elegans Conference at UCLA. Bon voyage to Malan Silva, who is heading off to his postdoc in the Jorgensen lab at Utah!
April 2016
We are obsessed about ciliary extracellular vesicles! Juan and Maureen wrote a review on Ciliary Extracellular Vesicles: Txt Msg Organelles. See also Juan’s paper on defining the molecular signature of extracellular vesicle releasing neurons in Current Biology. This work was initiated during Maureen’s sabbatical in the lab of Coleen Murphy at Princeton, our collaborators.
February 2015
We have two new doctors in the house: Simon Warburton-Pitt and Julie Maguire! Simon’s most recent work was published in PLOS Genetics and Dr. SWP is now a postdoc in Bristol, UK. Congratulations to Deanna DeVore and Malan Silva for their predoctoral fellowship awards. Deanna landed an NIH predoctoral fellowship for her studies on the connection between the polycystins and extracellular matrix. Malan successfully renewed his Busch […]
September 2015
We renewed our NIH grant on Polycystins, Cilia, and Extracellular Vesicles in C. elegans. Five more years of discoveries to come! Dr. Bob O’Hagan is the Principal Investigator of a new three year Independent Research Grant from the New Jersey Commission on Spinal Cord Research entitled, “Enhancement of Cytoskeletal Dynamics and Motor Transport by Manipulation of […]
April 2014
Juan Wang’s paper on extracellular vesicles mediating animal communication was recently published in Current Biology. Now she’s working on identifying ECV cargo and the receiving cells. Malan Silva, our electron microscopy and tomography expert, continues to commute to Albert Einstein to work with Dave Hall. Malan wrote an eLife insight piece highlighting the power of ET. Alina Rashid, a […]
August 2013
We’re having a great summer. Half the lab went to the 19th International C. elegans meeting, while the rest of us went to the FASEB Cilia meeting. Dr. Nate Schoeder and Dr. Bob O’Hagan gave talks on dendritic remodeling and tubulin posttranslational modifications, respectively. Two postdocs left the nest and started their own research programs. Dr. Nate Schroeder is at University […]
October 2011
Read about tubulin modifications and ciliary stability in Bob O’Hagan and Malan Silva‘s paper in Current Biology Oct 6. This was a great collaboration with the Swoboda (Karolinska Institute) and Hall (Albert Einstein) labs Check out our “sexy cougar” paper by Natalia Morsci and Lenny Haas in Genetics October 3. Congratulations to Julie Maguire on receiving a Busch graduate student fellowship.. Welcome to our new lab undergrads Sai Khisty and Mike […]
July 2011
Congrats to Natalia Morsci for her publication in Current Biology. Welcome to Dr. Britt Carlson, who is tackling KLP-6 kinesin biophysics as a summer researcher.
