Lab News
| Jun 11, 2022: |
Congratulations to Manoj Panta and Andrew Kump for publishing yet another manuscript: Panta et al. (2022). Assessing the Roles of Potential Notch Signaling Components in Instructive and Permissive Pathways with Two Drosophila Pericardial Reporters. Methods in Molecular Biology 2472, 109-130. |
| May 14, 2022: |
Congratulations to Dr. Leah Beth VanBlaricum and Dr. Mason Gay, lab alumni, for being awarded their M.D. degrees. |
| Apr 20, 2022: |
Congratulations to Rajnandani Katariya for being awarded a Rich and Robin Porter Cancer Research Center Fellowship. |
| Apr 4, 2022: |
Congratulations to Dr. Andrew Kump for beginning his new position as a Post Doctorate Scientist at MassBiologics, Boston. |
| Feb 18, 2022: |
Congratulations to Tejas Kandharkar for receiving an offer of admission from the Indiana University School of Medicine. |
| Nov 18, 2021: |
Congratulations to Caitlin Mankser for receiving an offer of admission from the Physician Assistant Program at University of North Texas. |
| Nov 18, 2021: |
Congratulations to Evelyn McGuire for receiving an offer of admission from the Indiana University School of Medicine. |
| Oct 11, 2021: |
Congratulations to Dr. Andrew Kump for successfully submitting and defending his Ph.D. dissertation. |
| Aug 1, 2021: |
Congratulations to Dr. Manoj Panta for beginning his new position as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Division of Molecular Cardiovascular Biology at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center. |
| May 26, 2021: |
Congratulations to Dr. Manoj Panta for successfully submitting and defending his Ph.D. dissertation. |
| Mar 3, 2021: |
Congratulations to Andrew Kump and M. Rezaul Hasan for being awarded Rich and Robin Porter Cancer Research Center Fellowships. |
| Feb 23, 2021: |
Congratulations to Manoj Panta for being the graduate winner of the 2021 Bakerman Student Research Award at Indiana State University. |
| Feb 05, 2021: |
Congratulations to Andrew Kump and Manoj Panta for having yet another manuscript accepted for publication: Kump et al. (2021). The Drosophila Forkhead/Fox transcription factor Jumeau mediates specific cardiac progenitor cell divisions by regulating expression of the kinesin Nebbish. Scientific Reports 11, 3221. |
| Oct 09, 2020: |
Congratulations to Manoj Panta, Andrew Kump, and John Dalloul for having their manuscript accepted for publication: Panta et al. (2020). Three distinct mechanisms, Notch instructive, permissive, and independent, regulate the expression of two different pericardial genes to specify cardiac cell subtypes. PLoS ONE 15, e0241191. |
| Mar 30, 2020: |
Congratulations to Ishreet Lehal for her research project being awarded 1st place in the state overall and also being named the top biology project in the Hoosier Science and Engineering Fair. |
| Feb 28, 2020: |
Congratulations to Andrew Kump and Manoj Panta for being awarded travel grants from the Graduate Student Research Fund. |
| Feb 22, 2020: |
Congratulations to Kennedy Camden for receiving an offer of admission from the medical school at Indiana University. |
| Dec 20, 2019: |
Congratulations to Sierra Crowe for receiving an offer of admission from the medical school at Indiana University. |
| May 11, 2019: |
Congratulations to Harjas Singh for being awarded the Hines Memorial Medal and the Outstanding Senior Award at Indiana State University. |
| Mar 21, 2019: |
Congratulations to Takoda Sons for receiving an offer of admission from the medical school at Indiana University. |
| Feb 20, 2019: |
Congratulations to Harjas Singh for receiving an offer of admission from the medical school at Indiana University. |
| Nov 5, 2018: |
Congratulations to Andrew Kump for being awarded a Senior Research Grant from the Indiana Academy of Science. |
| May 12, 2018: |
Congratulations to Leah Beth Carter for being awarded the Hines Medal at Indiana State University. |
| May 4, 2018: |
Congratulations to John Dalloul for being awarded the Indiana Governor’s STEM Team Award in the area of Science. |
| Apr 2, 2018: |
Congratulations to John Dalloul for receiving offers of admission from Stanford, Princeton, Emory and Indiana Universities. |
| Mar 24, 2018: |
Andrew Kump and Manoj Panta both gave research talks in the Cell Biology forum of the 133rd Annual Meeting of the Indiana Academy of Science at Indianapolis, IN. |
| Mar 9, 2018: |
John Dalloul, Terre Haute South Vigo High School student and Ahmad Lab member, was selected to give an oral presentation on his research at the National Junior Science and Humanities Symposium in Hunt Valley, 2018. |
| Feb 26, 2018: |
John Dalloul, Terre Haute South Vigo High School student and Ahmad Lab member, was selected to give an oral presentation on his research at the “Spotlight on Undergraduate Research” workshop at the 59th Annual Drosophila Research Conference in Philadelphia, PA. |
| Feb 9, 2018: | Congratulations to Manoj Panta for being awarded a travel grant from the Graduate Student Research Fund. |
| Jan 23, 2018: |
Mason Gay and John Dalloul had their research selected for presentation at the 32nd Annual National Conference on Undergraduate Research. |
| Jan 5, 2018: |
Congratulations to Leah Beth Carter for receiving offers of admission from medical schools at the University of Illinois, Indiana University, and Southern Illinois University. |
| Sep 22, 2017: |
Congratulations to Mason Gay for receiving an offers of admission from the medical school at Indiana University. |
| May 15, 2017: | Congratulations to Andrew Kump for his publication in Genome Announcement of the Draft Genome Sequence of Streptococcus pyogenes Strain M3KCL (2017) that he assembled as an undergraduate at the Cho Lab. |
| May 8, 2017: | Another manuscript has been accepted for publication from the Ahmad Lab:
Ahmad, S. M. (2017). Conserved signaling mechanisms in Drosophila heart development. Developmental Dynamics 246, 641-656. |
| Mar 10, 2017: | John Dalloul, Terre Haute South Vigo High School student and Ahmad Lab member, was selected to give an oral presentation on his research at the National Junior Science and Humanities Symposium in San Diego, CA. |
| Feb 13, 2017: | Congratulations to Manoj Panta for being awarded a grant from Spring Graduate Student Research Fund. |
| Jan 23, 2017: | Kennedy Camden, Leah Beth Carter, Harjas Singh, and Takoda Sons had their research selected for presentation at the 31st Annual National Conference on Undergraduate Research. |
| July 13, 2016: | Shaad Ahmad is awarded a Scientist Development Grant from the American Heart Association. |
| Dec 23, 2015: | Shaad Ahmad is awarded a COMPETE grant from Indiana State University. |
| Nov 26, 2015: |
First manuscript accepted for publication from the Ahmad Lab: Ahmad et al. (2016) Two Forkhead transcription factors regulate cardiac progenitor specification by controlling the expression of receptors of the fibroblast growth factor and Wnt signaling pathways. Development 143, 306-317. |
| Aug 27, 2015: | The Ahmad Lab secured a long term loan of research equipment from the National Institutes of Health. |
| Aug 15, 2015: | The Ahmad Lab is open for business. |
