Lab Outings
2023
Drunken Fish -our goodbye lunch with Lane as he continues his journey as a medical student.
Our final luncheon with Fadhel as he heads off to medical school and embarks on the next chapter of his story.
Saying goodbye is never easy…..
Lab Retreat Day
Holiday Celebrations
2022
Siteman Cancer Research Symposium
Brittany’s Defense Party
2021
December
Our work on ASCC2 with Patrick Lombardi and Cynthia Wolberger is published in JBC. Congratulations to Timur and Becca and our collaborators!
November
Andrea comes back to visit and has lunch with us! Welcome back Dr. Byrum!
Nima gives a virtual talk at Yale, titled “Signaling from RNA damage: The canary in the coal mine?”
Ladan Abbasi, a Molecular Genetics and Genomics Ph.D. student, starts her rotation. Welcome Ladan. She will be working on base damage repair mutational signatures.
October
Our paper on the mechanism of ASCC complex recruitment and its connection to RNA damage signaling is published in Molecular Cell. Congratulations to Ning, Josh, Becca, and all the other contributors!
We have a lab outing at the Zoo!
September
Welcome to Alex Mabry, a Cancer Biology Ph.D. student, who starts his rotation this month in our lab. He will work on how conformational changes in RNA processing factors may affect their functions.
We also welcome Kristen Casey, a WashU undergraduate, to our lab. She will be working on the Fanconi pathway and its role in the alkylation damage response.
August
Reilly Sample, who is a Molecular Genetics and Genomics Ph.D. student, starts his rotation. Welcome, Reilly. He will be focused on understanding the molecular mechanism of trichothiodystrophy.
Our amazing lab techs, Becca Rodell and Timur Rusanov, are off to graduate school. Becca will start her Ph.D. studies at Stanford and Timur will be in the M.D./Ph.D. program at the University of Illinois. We will miss you!
Nima gives a talk at Boston Children’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School.
July
We welcome Fadhel Mansoori, as our new technician. Welcome Fadhel!
Nima and Sara host the first ever GMaC summer party. Lots of smoked chicken and splashing in the pool!
April
Mohamed’s review on the mechanisms of DNA damage tolerance and repair during replication is published in Nucleic Acids Research. Congrats Mohamed!
Hua Sun has joined our lab as a bioinformatics staff scientist. Welcome Hua!
March
Nima gives two virtual talks at the University of Alabama at Birmingham and here at WashU’s Department of Biochemistry & Biophysics.
January
Ning’s review on the diverse mechanisms of alkylation damage repair is published! Congratulations to Ning!
2020
December
It’s 2020, so no parties in person. Instead, we have a Zoom party.
September
How do we have fun during the fall season when we can’t go indoors? We go to a corn maze, of course!
Brittany was awarded a highly competitive NIH/NCI-funded NRSA training grant. Congratulations Britt!
August
We welcome Timur Rusanov to our lab, who will be starting as a technician. He will work on the biochemistry of the ASCC complex. Welcome Timur!
March
LOur collaboration with Mike Diamond’s group on the role of BAF1 in modulating cGAS-STING signaling is published in mBio. Congratulations to Andrea!
Even though we have to shut down the lab due to COVID-19, we welcome Dr. Mohamed Ashour, who will start his postdoc in our lab. Welcome Mohamed!
January
A paper led by Andre Nussenzweig’s lab on the regulation of 53BP1 is published in Molecular Cell. Congratulations Andrea on your contribution to this collaboration!
2019
December
Winter Holiday Party at Nima and Sara’s house! We played Secret Santa!
November
Undergraduate student Jessica Yu joins the lab. She will be working with Jennifer Soll on alkylation repair proteins.
October
Josh defends his thesis. Congratulations Dr. Brickner! He is off to Stanford for a postdoc with Karlene Cimprich in the department of Chemical and Systems biology.
Andrea defends her thesis. Congratulations Dr. Byrum! She will be going off to Nationwide Children’s Hospital to start her postdoc with Stephen Lessnick.
September
Ning joined the lab as a Staff Scientist working on the RNF113A/ASCC pathway. Welcome, Ning!
July
Becca Rodell joins the lab as a lab tech as well as a lab manager. Welcome Becca!