News
December 2008
Our collaboration with the Gross laboratory results in a publication in Cell. This paper was highlighted in a Preview article in the same issue of the journal.
Susan Tran and our collaborator Steven Gross (UCIrvine) present posters on our work on Halo and Kinesin-1, respectively, at the ASCB Meeting in San Francisco.
First-year graduate student Sayak Ghatak will do his second lab rotation in the Welte lab.
Project: Binding partners of bacterially expressed Halo
October 2008
The Biology Department holds its annual retreat (October 6), this year at the Genesee Country Village & Museum.
Invited speaker in the Donut Talk Seminar Series (Monday, October 13, at noon): Elizabeth Gavis, Princeton University
Undergraduate researcher Matt Brockway presents poster on his analysis of klar alleles at the UPBM poster session.
Invited speaker in the Donut Talk Seminar Series (Monday, October 20, at noon): Mark Van Doren, Johns Hopkins University.
August 2008
Michael Welte was an invited speaker at the 49th annual meeting of the International Conferences of the Biosciences of Lipids (Maastricht, The Netherlands).
The Welte laboratory receives a grant from the National Institute of Health to study lipid-droplet motion.
July 2008
Nick Rizzo joins the lab as a research technician.
Michael Welte and Steven Gross publish a commentary on a new study that suggests that coordination of motors might arise from a dynamic tug-of-war.
Graduate student Susan Tran defends her thesis on the role of Kinesin-1 and Halo in lipid-droplet transport.
June 2008
The Biology Department receives its brand new confocal microscope, a Leica SP5.
Michael Welte was an invited speaker at 16th International Workshop on Molecular and Developmental Biology of Drosophila in Kolymbari, Crete (Greece)
Michael Welte presents a seminar at the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics in Dresden (Germany).
Nike Detlefsen joins the Jasper and Welte labs as stock keeper and technician.
May 2008
Graduate student Zhihuan Li joins the Welte lab for his thesis work.
Michael Welte presents a seminar at the University of Texas Southwestern in Dallas, TX.
April 2008
Invited speaker in the Donut Talk Seminar Series (Monday, April 14, at noon): Tony Harris from the University of Toronto.
Naina Phadnis and Michael Welte presented posters at the Annual Drosophila Meeting in San Diego, CA. Our collaborator Arno Müller from the University of Dundee (Scotland) presents some of our joint work on Argonaute 2 at a workshop at the same meeting.
Invited speaker in the Donut Talk Seminar Series (Monday, April 7, at noon): Margarete Heck from the University of Edinburgh (Scotland).
Michael Welte presents a seminar at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine (Bronx, NY).
Naina Phadnis presents her poster on importin sequestration at Genetics Day.
March 2008
Michael Welte presents a seminar at the Gladstone Institute in San Francisco (UCSF).
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
Yanxun 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