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Ramen was awarded the 2023-24 UC Merced senate award to study a novel inhibitor of the neuronal activity-induced gene transcription. The proposal is titled, 'A study of BAF complex functions in neurons using novel inhibitor '704'.

We have released our latest preprint, titled: Activity-assembled nBAF complex mediates rapid immediate early gene transcription by regulating RNA Polymerase II productive elongation. This study was led by Karen Cornejo as a part of her thesis project. Andie Venegas and Morgan Sono were amazing...

Andie Venegas was accepted in the QSB Ph.D. program. Andie has chosen to pursue her Ph.D. with us and will start as a graduate student in Spring of 2022. We are excited to have Andie in the lab as a graduate student (along with Morgan and Karen). Welcome Andie!

The preprint " Accurate sequence-to-affinity models for SH2 domains from multi-round peptide binding assays coupled with free-energy regression" is out on bioRxiv.

We received a new R21 award from NIMH. The project is titled, ' The BAF chromatin remodeling complex in experience-induced neuronal gene transcription and synapse maturation; implications for autism spectrum disorder'. The goal of this project is to reveal the role of intrinsically disordered...

Julia gave an oral presentation at the 2022 WHIP meeting in Woods hole, MA and a poster at the 16th International meeting on Toxoplasmosis and Toxoplasma meeting, Riverside CA. She won 2nd best talk at WHIP and best poster for her work on the GPI anchor of T. gondii. Pictured below are the awardees...

Our PLOS Pathogens paper by Souza et al. gained a lot of traction! The UC Merced News Room published an article written by former undergraduate researcher Anh Diep. Also, a Splotlight article published in Trends in Parasitology was written by Imtiaz Khan and colleague highlighting this important...