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Farewell lunch for Austin!

Jan. 17, 2020—Farewell lunch for Austin. We wish him all the best!

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Our review “Mechanisms of nuclear mRNA export: a structural perspective” is online now!

Sep. 12, 2019—It is published in the virtual issue “Membrane Traffic at Atomic Resolution” of Traffic, edited by Dr. Lauren Jackson. 

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Yi presented at the Nuclear Transport 2019 meeting in Scotland.

Aug. 27, 2019—Thanks to Eric Schirmer and Mark Field for organizing such a wonderful meeting!

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Our NIH MIRA grant is funded!

Aug. 16, 2019—Our MIRA grant entitled “Mechanisms and Regulation of Nuclear mRNA Export” is officially funded!

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Our work features on VBS discoveries

Jul. 15, 2019—This is why we can’t have nice things: How influenza impairs the host defense

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Ren lab’s first paper online in Nature Microbiology

Jul. 1, 2019—Our first research paper “Structural basis for influenza virus NS1 protein block of mRNA nuclear export” has just been published online in Nature Microbiology.

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Spring lab lunch

Apr. 5, 2019—

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Pate Hill joins the lab

Oct. 1, 2018—We are delighted to welcome Pate to our team as a Research Assistant!

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Andrew Morris joins the lab

Apr. 2, 2018—We welcome our first graduate student Andrew!

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Eclipse Picnic

Aug. 21, 2017—

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Austin Ivey joins the lab

Jul. 1, 2017—We welcome Austin to the lab as a Research Assistant!    

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Unpacking

Dec. 25, 2016—

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Ren lab opens

Dec. 1, 2016—New faculty member, Yi Ren (Rockefeller University) joins the Department of Biochemistry on December 1st! Her office location will be 673d Light Hall. She will share lab space for now with Drs. York and Olivares in 610 RRB.

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