OHAGAN LAB News
August 2021--Congratulations to the amazing students that conduct research in the OHAGAN LAB! Ellia Daniel was awarded a Bonnie Lustigman Research Fellowship, Alexandra Avrutis received a Becker Keenen Moore Brook Uhia Waller Scholarship, and Zarifa Akbary received both Charles E. Hadley and Al Stein Memorial Scholarships!
July 2021--Methods paper accepted! O’Hagan, R., and Topalidou, I., Fixation and Immunostaining of Endogenous Proteins or Post-Translational Modifications in Caenorhabditis elegans, Bio-protocol (accepted; anticipated publication date, October 05, 2021).
June 2021--OHAGAN LAB research presented at the 23rd International C. elegans Conference, 2021:
Understanding Interactions Between Microtubule-Associated Proteins And Post-Translational Modifications Of Microtubules In Sensory Neurons, Avrutis, A., Ross, N., Toyos, Y., Cuyuche, K., and O’Hagan, R.
March 2021--Congratulations to Sasha Avrutis and Yandis Toyos for presenting their research at the 5th Annual Darwin Day Symposium at MSU! Yandis also presented his work at the 12th Annual GS-LSAMP/NNJ-B2B STEM Research Conference!
March 2021--OHAGAN Lab welcomes new members Zarifa Akbary, Ellia Daniel and Ema Ramicevic! Looking forward to developing projects with these undergraduate scientists!
March 2021--Congratulations to former OHAGAN LAB member Jonathon Eisenstein who was admitted to veterinary school!
February 2021--Ramadan, Y.H., Gu, A., Ross, N., Barr, M. M., Firestein, B. L., and O’Hagan, R. CCP1, a tubulin deglutamylase, increases survival of rodent spinal cord neurons following glutamate-induced excitotoxicity Accepted by eNeuro (2021)
Fall 2020--Power et al. Mutation of NEKL-4/NEK10 and TTLL genes opposes loss of the CCPP-1 deglutamylase and prevents neuronal ciliary degeneration Published by PLOS Genetics!
June 2020--Congratulations to OHAGAN LAB member Yandis Toyos who received an LSAMP research fellowship!
July 2021--Methods paper accepted! O’Hagan, R., and Topalidou, I., Fixation and Immunostaining of Endogenous Proteins or Post-Translational Modifications in Caenorhabditis elegans, Bio-protocol (accepted; anticipated publication date, October 05, 2021).
June 2021--OHAGAN LAB research presented at the 23rd International C. elegans Conference, 2021:
Understanding Interactions Between Microtubule-Associated Proteins And Post-Translational Modifications Of Microtubules In Sensory Neurons, Avrutis, A., Ross, N., Toyos, Y., Cuyuche, K., and O’Hagan, R.
March 2021--Congratulations to Sasha Avrutis and Yandis Toyos for presenting their research at the 5th Annual Darwin Day Symposium at MSU! Yandis also presented his work at the 12th Annual GS-LSAMP/NNJ-B2B STEM Research Conference!
March 2021--OHAGAN Lab welcomes new members Zarifa Akbary, Ellia Daniel and Ema Ramicevic! Looking forward to developing projects with these undergraduate scientists!
March 2021--Congratulations to former OHAGAN LAB member Jonathon Eisenstein who was admitted to veterinary school!
February 2021--Ramadan, Y.H., Gu, A., Ross, N., Barr, M. M., Firestein, B. L., and O’Hagan, R. CCP1, a tubulin deglutamylase, increases survival of rodent spinal cord neurons following glutamate-induced excitotoxicity Accepted by eNeuro (2021)
Fall 2020--Power et al. Mutation of NEKL-4/NEK10 and TTLL genes opposes loss of the CCPP-1 deglutamylase and prevents neuronal ciliary degeneration Published by PLOS Genetics!
June 2020--Congratulations to OHAGAN LAB member Yandis Toyos who received an LSAMP research fellowship!
May 2020--O'Hagan Lab/Barr Lab collaboration--manuscript submitted to PLoS Genetics! Mutation of NEKL-4/NEK10 and TTLL genes opposes loss of the CCPP-1 deglutamylase and prevents neuronal ciliary degeneration--by Power et al. O'Hagan Lab member Nicole Ross is a co-author! Our molecular model is shown above! Link to manuscript: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.05.21.108449v1
May 2020--Congratulations to O'Hagan Lab members Adam Zadeh and Jonathon Eisenstein on graduating from Montclair State University! Congratulations to Nicole Ross on graduating with a Masters of Microbiology & Cell Science University of Florida. Gainesville, FL. Awesome!!
Feb. 2020--Congratulations to Adam Zadeh on an excellent talk on his research on dendritic microtubule dynamics for Darwin Day/Wehner Symposium, Montclair State University. Nobel Laureate Dr. Martin Chalfie gave the keynote address. Here's a picture of all the Speakers at Darwin Day with Dr. Chalfie! Adam is second from the left, next to Dr. Chalfie.
Jan. 2020--Former O'Hagan Lab member Dana Gregor Candemir received a job offer from biotech company Genewiz! Congratulations!!! Go Dana Go!!!!
June 2019--OHagan Lab research presentations at the 2019 International C. elegans Meeting at UCLA:
"The Tubulin Code: Writers, erasers, and readers specialize cilia," O'Hagan, Robert, Power, Katlin, Gu, Amanda, Morash, Maggie, Bellotti, Sebastian, Zhang, Winnie, De Stasio, Elizabeth, Smith, Harold, Golden, Andrew, Nguyen, Ken, Hall, David, & Barr, Maureen
"Determining the function of the kinase NEKL-4 in cilia," Power, K., O'Hagan, R., Gu, A., Walsh, J., Morash, M., Bellotti, S., Zhang, W., & Barr, M.
"Effects of Microtubule Glutamylation on Motor Localization and Function in Axons and Dendrites," Adam Zadeh, Robert O'Hagan
Jan. 2019--Congratulations to Adam Zadeh, who received a prestigious Wehner Student Research Program (WESTREP) Fellowship to support his research in the OHagan Lab!
Feb. 2019--The OHagan Lab presented a research poster at the Sigma Xi Research Symposium at Montclair State University: "Genetic Studies of Microtubule Stability and Cellular Trafficking in the Nematode C. elegans," Adam Zadeh, Stephanie Barraza, Dana Gregor Candemir, Nicole Ross, Sasha Avrutis, and Robert O’Hagan
Sep. 2019--Congratulations to Stephanie Barraza, who received a scholarship from the Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation in STEM fields to support her work in the OHagan lab.
Nov. 2018--Bob O'Hagan and collaborators at Rutgers presented a poster at the 2018 Brain Health Symposium: "Identification of Evolutionarily Conserved Regulators of Microtubule Stability and Function in Neurons," Yasmin H. Ramadan, Amanda Gu, Jyothi Shilpa Akella, Bonnie L. Firestein, Robert O’Hagan, Maureen M. Barr
May 2020--Congratulations to O'Hagan Lab members Adam Zadeh and Jonathon Eisenstein on graduating from Montclair State University! Congratulations to Nicole Ross on graduating with a Masters of Microbiology & Cell Science University of Florida. Gainesville, FL. Awesome!!
Feb. 2020--Congratulations to Adam Zadeh on an excellent talk on his research on dendritic microtubule dynamics for Darwin Day/Wehner Symposium, Montclair State University. Nobel Laureate Dr. Martin Chalfie gave the keynote address. Here's a picture of all the Speakers at Darwin Day with Dr. Chalfie! Adam is second from the left, next to Dr. Chalfie.
Jan. 2020--Former O'Hagan Lab member Dana Gregor Candemir received a job offer from biotech company Genewiz! Congratulations!!! Go Dana Go!!!!
June 2019--OHagan Lab research presentations at the 2019 International C. elegans Meeting at UCLA:
"The Tubulin Code: Writers, erasers, and readers specialize cilia," O'Hagan, Robert, Power, Katlin, Gu, Amanda, Morash, Maggie, Bellotti, Sebastian, Zhang, Winnie, De Stasio, Elizabeth, Smith, Harold, Golden, Andrew, Nguyen, Ken, Hall, David, & Barr, Maureen
"Determining the function of the kinase NEKL-4 in cilia," Power, K., O'Hagan, R., Gu, A., Walsh, J., Morash, M., Bellotti, S., Zhang, W., & Barr, M.
"Effects of Microtubule Glutamylation on Motor Localization and Function in Axons and Dendrites," Adam Zadeh, Robert O'Hagan
Jan. 2019--Congratulations to Adam Zadeh, who received a prestigious Wehner Student Research Program (WESTREP) Fellowship to support his research in the OHagan Lab!
Feb. 2019--The OHagan Lab presented a research poster at the Sigma Xi Research Symposium at Montclair State University: "Genetic Studies of Microtubule Stability and Cellular Trafficking in the Nematode C. elegans," Adam Zadeh, Stephanie Barraza, Dana Gregor Candemir, Nicole Ross, Sasha Avrutis, and Robert O’Hagan
Sep. 2019--Congratulations to Stephanie Barraza, who received a scholarship from the Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation in STEM fields to support her work in the OHagan lab.
Nov. 2018--Bob O'Hagan and collaborators at Rutgers presented a poster at the 2018 Brain Health Symposium: "Identification of Evolutionarily Conserved Regulators of Microtubule Stability and Function in Neurons," Yasmin H. Ramadan, Amanda Gu, Jyothi Shilpa Akella, Bonnie L. Firestein, Robert O’Hagan, Maureen M. Barr