Hu Lab News:
- August 2023: Xander’s preview on the role of TMEM106B as a receptor for SARS-COV2 is published in Cell! Congratulations, Xander!
- August 2023: Weill Institute Retreat! Tuancheng, Xander and Cha did excellent job presenting their work!
- July 2023: Lab picnic at Stewart Park to celebrate several papers published this year and say farewell to our summer REU student Kiersten Buck!
- May 2023: Weilun passed her B exam. Congratulations, Dr. Pang!
- December 2022: Weilun, Xander and Fenghua attended CSHL conference on Neurodegenerative diseases.
- October 2022: Mariela passed her B exam. Congratulations, Dr. Santos Nunez!
- August 2022: Lab picnic at Robert Treman State Park to welcome new rotation students and wish postdoc Tingting the best luck with starting her own independent position at Nanjing Normal University!
- May 2022: Cindy Liu from the BMCB field joined the lab. Welcome!
- June 2021: Our paper on the role of progranulin in A-beta dynamics is published! Huan has done an amazing job!
- January 2021: Our review article on the physiological and pathological functions of TMEM106B is published in Acta Neuropathologica on the new year day! Good job, Tuancheng and Xander!
- December 2020: Our review article on C9orf72 is published! Congratulations, Weilun!
- August 2020: Our work on the role of TMEM106B in FTLD and the interaction between TMEM106B and PGRN is published. Good job, Tuancheng!!
- July 2020: Nice coverage of our work on TMEM106B by Cornell Chronicle (https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2020/07/gene-yields-insights-causes-neurodegeneration)!
- June 2020: Our manuscript on the role of TMEM106B in myelination is published. Good job, Tuancheng!
- May 2020: Alexander Lacrampe from the BMCB field joined the lab. Welcome!
- July 2019: Our paper on the interaction between progranulin and glucocerebrosidase is published in the journal PLoS One!
- May 2019: Congratulations to our graduates, Mitch and Stephanie! Good luck inyour future endeavors!
- Jan 2019: Yungang’s paper on SMCR8 is published in the journal Autophagy!
- August 2018: Mariela passed her A-exam. Congratulations!
- June 2018: Our method paper on progranulin and sortilin interaction is published in the Methods in Molecular Biology book series on progranulin!
- May 2018: Welcome graduate students Mitch Pagan and Weilun Pang to the lab!
- May 2018: Our review article on progranulin is published in Acta Neuropathologica. Good job, Dan!
- April 2018: Dan passed his B-exam. Congratulations Dr. Paushter! Good luck with the DVM program!
- August 2017: Our paper on lysosomal progranulin processing is published and highlighted in ALZ forum!
- July 2017: Welcome new postdoc Huan Du to the lab!
- July 2017: Pete passed his B-exam! Congratulations, Dr. Sullivan!
- June 2017: Our paper on progranulin-prosaposin binding site is published!
- May 2017: Welcome new graduate student, Mariela N. Santos, from the BMCB field!
- May 2017: Our paper titled “Impaired prosaposin lysosomal trafficking in frontotemporal lobar degeneration due to progranulin mutations” is published in Nature Communications! Good job, Xiaolai!
- May 2017: Our manuscript on progranulin and cathepsin D interaction is published in Acta Neuropathologica!
- March 2017: Congratulations to Pete Sullivan on winning the Harry and Samuel Mann Outstanding Graduate Student Award!
- January 2017: Our manuscript on the interaction between PRGN and TMEM106B is accepted for publication!
- December 2016: Welcome postdoc Tuancheng Feng and visiting scientist Yungang Lan to the lab!
- August 2016: Welcome undergraduates Stephanie Becker, Sam Huang, Helen Kwon, Christina Mendoza and Alice Tan to the lab!
- July 27th 2016: Dan Paushter passed his A-exam. Congratulations!
- May 2016: Our manuscript on ALS/FTLD associated protein C9orf72 is accepted for publication!
- September 2015: Our paper titled “Prosaposin facilitates sortilin independent lysosomal targeting of progranulin” is published in the Journal of Cell Biology and highlighted. Good job, Xiaolai and Lirong!
- May 2015: Welcome to DVM/Ph.D. Student, Daniel Paushter!
- September 2014: Xiaolai is awarded the Weill Institute Postdoctoral Fellowship. Congratulations!
- August 28, 2014: Peter Sullivan passed his A-exam. Congratulations!
- May 2014: Our paper on TMEM106B cleavage by SPPL2a is accepted for publication.
- Dec. 2013: Congratulations to Dr. Adam Brady for completing his PhD! Adam will take a postdoc position at NIH. Good Luck, Adam!
- April 2013: Welcome new postdoc Xiaolai Zhou, and visiting scientist Lirong Sun to the Lab!
- Dec. 2012: Fenghua is awarded research grant from MDA foundation to study TDP-43 aggregation.
- Oct. 2012: Our paper titled “The Frontotemporal Lobe degeneration risk factor, TMEM106B, regulates lysosomal morphology and function” is accepted for publication in Human Molecular Genetics.
- Sept. 2011: Fenghua is awarded AFTD 2011 Pilot Grant (http://www.theaftd.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/2011-Pilot-Grant-Release.pdf).
- Aug. 2011: Fenghua is granted New Investigator Award from the Alzheimer’s Association.
- June 2011: Our paper titled “C-terminus of Progranulin interacts with the beta-propeller region of Sortilin to regulate Progranulin trafficking” is published in PLoS One.
- Nov. 2010: Our paper titled “Regulation of TDP-43 aggregation by phosphorylation and p62/SQSTM1” is accepted by Journal of Neurochemistry on Nov. 1st, 2010. The online version is out on Nov. 9th. Good job, Adam!
- Sept. 2010: Our joint publication with Dr. Strittmatter’s group on regulation of progranulin trafficking by sortilin is accepted by Neuron on September 7th, 2010. It will appear on the Nov. 18th issue of Neuron.
- Aug. 2010: Adam passed his A-exam on August 23rd, 2010. Congratulations, Adam!
- June 2010: Fenghua is awarded “The Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Foundation/AFAR New Investigator Awards in Alzheimer’s Disease”.