Zachara Lab


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)

Congratulation to Marissa Martinez whose paper “Quantitative Phosphoproteomics Reveals Crosstalk Between Phosphorylation and O-GlcNAc in the DNA Damage Response Pathway” is in press in Proteomics.

Congratulations to Jennifer Groves who was awarded an NRSA by the National Institute of Aging (October 2015).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 Russell, Albert and Roger whose paper “Characterization of the Specificity of O-GlcNAc Reactive Antibodies Under Conditions of Starvation and Stress” has been accepted at Analytical Biochemistry (April, 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)

Congratulations to Lidia, her paper “O-Linked N-acetylglucosamine (O-GlcNAC) Protein Modification is Increased in the Cartilage of Patients with Knee Osteoarthritis” has been accepted for publication in Osteoarthritis and Cartilage.

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 Jen Groves, Albert Lee and Gokben Yildirir, whose manuscript “Dynamic O-GlcNAcylation and its roles in the cellular stress response and homeostasis” has been accepted for publication in Cell Stress and Chaperones (April 2013). PMID: 23620203.

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! Check out the “beyond the bench page” for pictures! (February, 2013)

We welcome BCMB rotation student Terri Clister to the laboratory! (January, 2013)

Congratulations to Albert Lee, this years GCF Fellow, who will investigate the tripartite interplay between O-GlcNAc, phosphorylation and methylation in cell survival decisions in the myocardium (January 2013).

“Ischemic Preconditioning Increases Myocardial O-GlcNAc Glycosylation” by R.V. Jensesn, J. Johnsen, S.B. Kristiansen, N.E. Zachara and H.E. Botker has been accepted for publication in the Scandinavian Cardiovascular Journal. (December 2012)

Congratulations to Jennifer Groves who passed her Oral Exam! (December 2012)

“Impact of O-GlcNAc on cardioprotection by remote ischemic preconditioning in non-diabetic and diabetic patients” by R.V. Jensen, N.E. Zachara, P.H. Nielsen, H.H. Kimose, S.B. Kristiansen, and H.E. Botker has been accepted for publication in Cardiovascular Research. PMID: 23201773 (November 2012)