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Welcome to the Jacinto Lab at Rutgers!
Our laboratory aims to understand how cellular signals are wired to control growth and metabolism. We focus on the cell signaling pathways that respond to nutrients and growth signals. We investigate how stress conditions antagonize these pathways leading to pathological conditions. Our studies have direct implications for understanding and developing therapy for cancer, diabetes, immune-related diseases and aging. We combine mammalian cells and mouse models for our studies.
Latest News!
May 2026: Congratulations to Christian and Dana on their graduation from Rutgers!
May 2026: Congratulations to Samiyah Syed for the Human Genetics Institute of NJ MacMillan Cancer Genetics Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (HGI-SURF) Award!
Apr 2026: Congratulations to Faizah for winning Best Poster at our Dept Retreat! Congrats also to Samiyah for presenting a poster and to Tatiana for her oral presentation!
Oct 2025: Welcome our new Ph.D. rotation student, Teagan Polotaye!
Jan 2025: Welcome our new Ph.D. rotation student, Dominick Spera and new undergrad, Samiyah Syed!
May 2024: Congratulations to Josua and Christine on their graduation! Welcome new undergrad students, Robert Yi, Adarsh Patel, Sri Tanakala!
Jan 2024: Paper published: Ragupathi et el, Biochem. J., 2024
Dec. 2023: Welcome our new Ph.D. rotation students, Kimberly Izarraras and Megan Schupp and new MS students, Mian Zain, Wonbi Song and Hrishi Pal !
Nov. 2023: Book chapter out: Patel and Jacinto, in RNA based mechanisms in cancer
Sep. 6, 2023: Welcome our new Ph.D rotation student, Lingyi Zhu!
Jul 19, 2023: Congratulations to Tatiana for passing her Ph.D. qualifying exam and receiving the Rutgers IMSD fellowship!
Apr. 18, 2023: Paper published: Paneque et al, Genes 2023
Dec. 1, 2022: Paper published: Werlen et al, Nature Comm. 2022