2024
Excited to investigate the role of O-GlcNAc on Nod2 with the Grimes and Melia Groups.
"Crohn's and Colitis Senior Investigator Award" (Grimes, PI)
2023
Excited to investigate the Impact of O-GlcNAc on Skin Fibrosis
"NIH Exploratory/Developmental Research Grant Award (R21)" (Wang, PI)
Congratulations Fiddia Zahra & Akanksha Aggarwal
White Coat Ceremony, November 15th, 2023.
We welcome BCMB Rotation Student: Ariella Kornfeld
We Welcome GPBC Rotation Student: Eduardo Gonzalez Cantero
Congratulations Bhargavi Narayanan Ph.D. - Officially PhinisheD
"Elucidating The Sex Dependent Regulation of Cardiac O-GlcNAcylation During Injury",
July 17th, 2023
2022
Congratulations Akanksha Aggarwal, who passed her Oral Exam
Congratulations Fiddia Zahra, who passed her Oral Exam
Congratulations Tiago da Costa Ph.D. - Who has been awarded an American Heart Association Post-Doctoral Fellowship
Fiddia Zahra and Akanksha Aggarwal have officially joined @Zacharalab for their thesis work!
We welcome GPBC Rotation Student: Akanksha Aggarwal
2021
Congratulations Bhargavi Narayanan, who received a Poster Award at SFG.
Congratulations Bhargavi Narayanan, who received a Travel Award to attend The Society For Glycobiology Annual Meeting
We welcome GPBC Rotation Student: Neha Shah
We welcome GPBC Rotation Student: Fiddia Zahra
We welcome Tiago da Costa Ph.D., post-doctoral fellow, to the laboratory.
2020
We are excited to be back in lab - even at one person per 400sq feet (June, 2020).Congratulations Bhargavi Narayanan, who received a Travel Award to Attend the ASBMB.
The Zachara Lab will run "Hands on O-GlcNAc" in March 9th-13th.
2019
Cathrine Grimes and Natasha Zachara will run a workshop at the ASBMB annual meeting (Orlando, FL). The goal of the workshop is to highlight new tools for studying glycans and to answer questions about how to approach Glycosciences problems. Check out Page 48 of ASBMB today (April, 2019)Congratulation to Marissa Martinez Ph.D. - who has been recruited to Foghorn Therapeutics to study changes in protein complexes in cancer.
We welcome BCMB rotation Student Jasmin Zarb to the Zachara Lab (January 2019)
2018
Congratulations Bhargavi, on passing your Oral Exam
We welcome undergraduate researchers Kian Croston and Fiddia Zahra to the Zachara Lab (September, 2018)
We welcome BC rotation student Danielle Smith to the Zachara Lab (September, 2018)
The Zachara Lab has been awarded an R01 to study the regulation of the enzymes which cycle O-GlcNAc (July, 2018)
The Zachara Lab has been awarded a U01 to develop tools to study O-GlcNAc (July, 2018)
Johns Hopkins University has been awarded a grant to train the next generation of Glycoscientist (June, 2018). Check out Immersive Training in the Glycosciences.
Bhargavi Narayanan (BC Grad student) joins the Zachara lab (May, 2018)
Congratulations to Thiago Dias M.D. who graduated with his Ph.D.(February, 2018)
2017
Congratulations to Jen Groves who graduated with her Ph.D. (October, 2017)
We welcome BC rotation student Vincent Guo to the lab (October, 2017)
We welcome BC rotation student Bhargavi Narayanan to the lab (August, 2017)
Look out for Transforming Glycoscience, news about the common fund whose goal is to develop transformative tools to help researchers study the roles of glycans in diverse physiological processes (May, 2017).
Congratulation Austin, who will be attending DUKE in the fall to complete his M.D./Ph.D.
2016
Congratulations to Jen and Marissa who have won Travel Awards to present their work at the Society for Glycobiology Annual Meeting (November, 2016).
Austin has been awarded the 2016 Marion B. Sewer Distinguished Scholarship by the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (ASBMB). Congratulations!! (August 2016).
Congratulations to Peter Natov, who has accepted an offer to complete his degree in medicine at Tufts University School of Medicine (May, 2016)
2015
The Zachara Lab was awarded a common fund grant to develop “Chemical genetic tools for the spatial and temporal modulation of O-GlcNAcylation” (July, 2015).
Congratulations to Roger Henry, who has accepted an offer to complete his degree in medicine at Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School in 2016 (May, 2015).
Congratulations to Austin Maduka who is now an U*STAR Scholar.
Congratulations to Chloe Ferris, who will be completing a post-bac at the NIH! (May, 2015)
Congratulations to Chloe Ferris and Michael McCartin who graduate this week (May 2015).
Kamau’s abstract has been selected for a short talk at the ASBMB Annual Meeting (April, 2015).
Congratulation of Kamau Fahie Ph.D. and Marissa Martinez Ph.D. whom both won travel awards to the ASBMB annual meeting (March, 2015)
Congratulations to Jennifer Groves who was awarded an NRSA by the National Institute of Aging (October 2015).
2014
Congratulations to Jennifer Groves who won a Student Poster award at the VIIth International Symposium on Heat Shock Proteins in Biology and Medicine, Alexandria, VA (November, 2014).
Congratulations to Michael McCartin who was awarded an PURA Award for his project “Characterization of a Novel Cardioprotective Mechanism: O-GlcNAc Regulated Autophagy “(November 2014)
We welcome undergraduate researcher Peter Natov to the laboratory. (September, 2014)
Welcome to Austin Maduka, an undergraduate research who will be spending the summer in lab (July, 2015).
Congratulations to Rubi Luna who has accepted an offer to complete her Degree in Medicine at UCSF (May, 2014).
Congratulations to Marissa Martinez Ph.D. who won a poster award at Inter-PEG for her poster entitled “Deciphering the O-GlcNAc Sub-Proteome: Regulation of the Oxidative Stress Response” (March, 2014).
Congratulations to Taylor Heck who has accepted an offer to complete his Degree in Podiatric Medicine and Surgery at Des Moines University (March, 2014).
Congratulations to Jennifer Groves who was awarded a travel fellowship to the ASBMB. (February, 2014)
2013
Congratulations to Kamau Fahie Ph.D. who won a Travel Award to attend the Glycobiology Society Meeting in November. (November, 2013)
We welcome Marissa Martinez Ph.D. to the laboratory (October, 2013).
Congratulations to Kamau Fahie Ph.D. who was awarded a post-doctoral fellowship from the American Heart Association to study the mechanisms by which O-GlcNAc regulates cardiac autophagy (May, 2013).
We welcome Summer Intern Jeremy Sanchez to the laboratory (May, 2013).
Congratulations to Shivang Doshi who has accepted an offer to complete his Ph.D. in Public Health at Harvard University (April, 2013)
Congratulations to Lumena Louis who has accepted an offer to complete her Ph.D. at the University of Pennsylvania (April 2013).
Congratulations to Srona Sengupta who has accepted an offer to complete her M.D./Ph.D. at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine (April 2013).
Congratulations to Jennifer Groves, who received an Honorable Mention from the NSF for her application to the 2013 National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program. (March 2013)
Natasha Zachara and Lara Mahal will be co-organizing the “Frontiers in Glycobiology Theme” at the annual meeting of the ASBMB in 2014. More information can be found at this link. (February, 2013)
Congratulations to Russell and Karen - who were married April 1st! ! (February, 2013)
We welcome BCMB rotation student Terri Clister to the laboratory! (January, 2013)
Congratulations to Albert Lee, this years GCF Fellow. (January 2013).
2012
Congratulations to Jennifer Groves who passed her Oral Exam! (December 2012)