News
August 2008
Michael Welte invited to speak at the 49th annual meeting of the International Conferences of the Biosciences of Lipids (Maastricht, The Netherlands).
April 2008
Naina Phadnis will present her work on protein sequestration at the Annual Drosophila Meeting in San Diego.
At the same meeting, our collaborator Steven Gross will present our joint work on how the number of motor molecules per cargo affects transport regulation.
Invited speaker in the Donut Talk Seminar Series (Monday, April 14, at noon): Tony Harris from the University of Toronto.
January 2008
First-year graduate student Zhenjiang Xu will do his second lab rotation in the Welte lab. Project: Mechanisms of Halo protein turnover.
December 2007
Susan Tran and Michael Welte each present a poster at the Annual Meeting of the American Society for Cell Biology in Washington, DC.
November 2007
Yanxu Yu joins the lab as a postdoc.
October 2007
The Welte lab receives a grant from the National Institutes of Health to study lipid droplets as sites of protein sequestration.
The Biology Department holds its annual retreat at the Cumming Nature Center
(October 8).
September 2007
Jen Einstein joins the lab as a research technician.
First-year graduate student Zhihuan Li will do his first lab rotation in the Welte lab. Project: Characterizing the expression of a novel lipid-droplet protein.
Undergraduate Kelsey Croft pursues an Independent Study Project on the role and localization of the Klarsicht protein.
Naina Phadnis joins the lab as a postdoc.
Invited speaker in the Donut Talk Seminar Series (Monday, September 24, at noon): David Sharp from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine
August 2007
The first-ever conference on lipid droplets brings together a broad range of scientists, from diabetes researchers to virologists. Michael Welte is one of the invited speakers.
A review article inspired by our work on histone storage on lipid droplets will be published in the August issue of Trends in Cell Biology: Welte, M.A. Proteins under new management: lipid droplets deliver. TCB 17: (2007, 363-369).
Joint lab meetings with the Jasper lab in Hutchison 316, Wednesdays at 5 p.m.
July 2007
The Welte Lab moves into newly renovated lab space in 311 Hutchison Hall at the University of Rochester.
Graduate student Dae-Hwan Kim defends his Ph.D. thesis The Klar/LSD2/Sfo complex regulates lipid-droplet transport in Drosophila