News
Updates from lab presentations, awards and other happy things to celebrate!
October 2020
The Hundley lab had a great virtual visit to the Rustbelt RNA meeting. Reshma presented her thesis work orally and the rest of the lab presented posters of their research - with Halle and Emily both earning poster presentation awards! Great work by all!!
October 2020
Priyanka successfully defended her prelim making her the first CMCB doctoral candidate in the Hundley lab! Congrats Priyanka!
September 2020
Reshma presents her thesis research at the RNA Editing and Modification Keystone Symposium!
September 2020
Suba defends her thesis and we celebrate Dr. Rajendren!!
May 2020
Congrats to graduate student Emily Erdmann on being awarded a position on the NIH Quantitative Chemical Biology Training Grant-- Great job Emily!
May 2020
Master's student Halle Stump completes her degree and wins first prize in the poster contest! Congrats Halle--and happy to say she will stay in the Hundley lab to keep working on the pathogen project!
March 2020
Heather presents the labs' work at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Biochemistry Colloquium. It was great to see friends from graduate school and meet some of the great new faculty!
February 2020
Congrats to Reshma for earning a year of funding from the Wright fellowship!
December 2019
The Hundley lab is excited to welcome three new graduate students - Boyoon Yang, Emily Erdmann and Ananya Mahapatra! Lots of exciting new worm projects to start in the New Year!
December 2019
Heather presented the lab's work at the Neuroscience Department at UCONN Health Science Center. Great questions from the audience and a fantastic student lunch!
November 2019
With a day full of meetings with RNA and C. elegans researchers, Heather had a wonderful visit to the Biology Department at University of Rochester.
July 2019
The summer wrapped up with almost back-to-back-to-back poster sessions for our summer students, Maggie, Jack, Farida and Amanda. Everyone did a great job with their projects and presentations. A special shout-out to Jack for his honorable mention prize at the IMPRS poster session!
July 2019
Very exciting news from the NIH! Our grant on Molecular mechanisms that regulate ADAR target recognition and RNA editing in vivo has been funded by the National Institute for General Medical Sciences! It is wonderful to have 5 years of funding for our mechanistic studies of ADAR function.
June 2019
Awesome news from the National Science Foundation!! Our grant on RNA-mediated regulation of innate immunity is funded! Many thanks to all in the lab that have contributed to this project and excited to see how 4 years of funding will allow us to grow!
April 2019
Congratulations to graduate student Reshma Kurup on passing her prelim!! Great job Reshma!
April 2019
Excited to publish our first collaborative paper with the Lamm lab! Work to understand the developmental regulation of editing and how aberrant editing is worse than no editing -- published at Cell Reports!
April 2019
Congrats to adopted graduate student Reid Oshiro and Hundley lab graduate student, Suba Rajendren on the manuscript accepted at mBio!
March 2019
It was wonderful to attend the 2019 RNA Editing Gordon Conference! Presented some unpublished work from the lab, made a lot of new contacts and had great meetings with old friends!
March 2019
Heather had a wonderful visit to Iowa State University, where she presented the lab's recent work and got lots of great questions from a very engaged audience!
December 2018
Cell, Molecular and Cancer Biology graduate student Priyanka Mukherjee joins the Hundley lab. Welcome Priyanka!!
November 2018
Heather had a wonderful time visiting the undergraduates at the Chemistry and Biochemistry Department of Northern Kentucky University.
November 2018
Suba is awarded a predoctoral fellowship from the American Heart Association to fund her remaining thesis research!! Congrats to Suba on this amazing accomplishment!
November 2018
Heather had a great time visiting the beautiful University of Texas at Dallas campus, talking about the lab's research and hearing about all the great research at UTD!
October 2018
The lab had a great time traveling to Columbus for the Rustbelt RNA meeting and everyone did a wonderful job presenting their posters!
September 2018
Heather presents different ways the lab has used the IUB Flow Cytometry facility at the Great Lakes Imaging and Flow Cytometry Association Annual Meeting. Many thanks for IUB-Flow Cytometry Facility Manager, Christiane Hassel, for the invitation to speak!
September 2018
Hundley lab graduate student Suba Rajendren and Pikaard lab graduate student Jasleen Singh present in the GCDB trainee seminar series! Great afternoon of RNA Biology!!
August 2018
Suba's first author manuscript on a novel mechanism for ADAR substrate recognition is accepted at Nucleic Acids Research!! Congrats to Suba, Aidan and Haider from the Hundley lab and many thanks to our collaborator Yuro Takagi-
August 2018
Dr. Oakes successfully defends her thesis research and graduates from Indiana University. Congrats Eimile!
July 2018
The last week of July wrapped up with three poster sessions---the Indy worm meeting where undergrad Olivia Abraham made her poster deput, the IU-Bloomington Office of Engaged Learning poster session where undergrad Amanda Lawson presented her summer research on ADAR3, and last but not least, the Indiana Medical Student Program for Research and Scholarship poster session where (nearly) MS2 students Obi Nwosu and Anna Dudley presented their summer research and Obi took home an honorable mention prize for his poster! Thanks to all in the lab for a great summer of research-
July 2018
Heather attended the 2018 Post-transcriptional Gene Regulation Gordon Conference and presented a poster on the lab's work on a new mode of substrate recognition for the ADAR enzymes.
July 2018
The lab is awarded a Ralph W. and Grace M. Showalter Trust grant to gain additional preliminary data for a new project on RNA-mediated regulation of innate immune gene expression and pathogen resistance!
June 2018
Heather chairs the Noncoding RNA session at the 2018 C. elegans Small RNA, Pathogenesis, Aging and Metabolism meeting!
June 2018
Heather presented the lab's work on neural editing and chemotaxis at the C. elegans Neuro 2018 meeting.
June 2018
The Hundley lab welcomes undergraduate Amanda Lawson to the lab for her summer Women in STEM LLC project!
May 2018
Graduate student Suba Rajendren led off the talks in the RNA Editing and Modification session at the 2018 RNA Society meeting. Great job telling your exciting story on ADAR substrate RNA recognition!
March 2018
GCDB graduate student, Reshma Kurup joins the Hundley lab--welcome Reshma!
March 2018
Graduate student Suba Rajendren wins a travel award from RNA Society to attend the annual RNA Society meeting in Berkeley, California. Congrats Suba!
February 2018
Heather had a wonderful visit to Case Western Reserve University and presenting the lab's work at the RNA Center.
January 2018
Suba Rajendren is awarded the Doane and Eunice Dahl Wright fellowship for 2018. Congrats Suba!
January 2018
Heather visits Purdue Cancer Center to talk about the lab's recent work.
October 2017
Heather presents the labs' work on RNA editing in the worm nervous system to the Department of Biology at Ball State University.
October 2017
The Hundley lab makes the short journey to Indianapolis to attend the 2017 Rustbelt RNA meeting.
Congrats to Suba for her honorable recognition poster prize! Great job Suba!
October 2017
Suba and Eimile present their research at the 2017 IUSM Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Research Day
August 2017
Congrats to Pranathi and Eimile on the publication of their Methods in Molecular Biology Chapter on Methods to Detect A-to-I RNA Editing--This is a great resource for anyone attempting to examine A-to-I RNA editing of cellular RNAs!
September 2017
Sarah's exciting paper on neural cell RNA-seq was accepted at eLIFE! This work wouldn't have been possible without a great collaboration with the Yeo lab and many Hundley lab members past and present (Aidan, Suba, Pranathi, Mike and Emily). Congrats to all!
July 2017
Eimile and Heather receive a pilot grant to identify more ADAR3 regulated targets in glioblastoma!
July 2017
Khorana Scholar, Britya Ghosh, finished her summer research project on RNA Editing in glioblastoma.
June 2017
Pranathi completes her Masters Research in Biotechnology by completing the construction of 24 RNA-seq libraries! We will miss you Pranathi-
April 2017
Undergraduate Haider Al-Awadi defends his undergraduate thesis research in the Chemistry Department
April 2017
Master's student Pranathi Vadlamani wins first place in the poster competition at the Hutton Honors College Research Symposium. Congrats Pranathi!
March 2017
Graduate students Suba and Eimile receive a Women in Science Travel Award from the IU Provost's Office to support their trip to the 2017 RNA Editing Gordon Research Conference in Ventura, CA.
Suba was also selected to give an oral presentation at that 2017 RNA Editing Gordon Research Seminar.
Congrats Suba and Eimile!
February 2017
Biochemistry Graduate Student, Justin Peterson joins the Hundley lab. Welcome Justin!
February 2017
Congrats to grad student Eimile Oakes and undergraduate student Ashley Anderson on publication of their study of the role of ADAR3 in glioblastoma in JBC!
December 2016
Dr. Sarah Deffit was awarded an NIH F32 NRSA Postdoctoral Fellowship for her studies in the Hundley lab. Congrats Sarah!
October 2016
Thanks to Pranathi, Suba, Haider and Eimile on helping to introduce our Brownie troop visitors to science in the Hundley lab (and liquid nitrogen!)
October 2016
The Hundley lab enjoyed a journey to the 2016 Rustbelt RNA meeting in Cleveland Ohio with postdoc, Sarah Deffit, presenting her exciting neural editing data in an oral presentation and Suba, Eimile, Pranathi and Haider presenting posters.
September 2016
Graduate student Suba Rajendren passes her prelim- Congrats Suba!
August 2016
Heather is awarded the Bergmann Prize from the US-Israel Binational Science Foundation. In addition, the Lamm and Hundley labs are awarded a joint research grant from the US-Israel Binational Science Foundation to study the developmental regulation of editing in C. elegans.
June 2016
STEM Summer Scholar Emilia Oben, a junior undergraduate from Jackson State University, joins the Hundley lab for a summer research experience. Welcome Emilia!
May 2016
Emilie presents her thesis research at the Simon Cancer Research Day in Indianapolis.
May 2016
Sarah is awarded a CTSI Postdoc Challenge grant to perform pilot studies at the IUB-Flow Cytometry Core and the IUB- Center for Genomics and Bioinformatics. Congrats Sarah!
March 2016
Haider is awarded the Robert and Marjorie Mann Scholarship to continue his undergraduate project in the lab this summer. Congrats Haider!
March 2016
Ashley is awarded the STEM Summer Scholars Institute scholarship to continue her undergraduate project in the lab this summer. Congrats Ashley!
February 2016
IUB-undergraduate, Pranathi Vadlamani joins the lab to get a head start on her biotechnology master’s project. Welcome Pranathi!
December 2015
Emilie presents her thesis research at the American Society for Cell Biology meeting in San Diego.