Lab News
04/21/2026: Pabi gave a talk on Axonal mRNA storage and release: a granule-centric model of regeneration, American Society for Neurochemistry, St. Charles, MO, USA.
04/19/2026: Shruti presented a poster at the American Society for Neurochemistry, St. Charles, MO, USA. She received a travel fellowship from Rutgers Newark, SASN, to attend this conference. Congratulations Shruti!
04/01/2026: Our lab received its first major grant from the New Jersey Commission on Brain Injury Research. Thank you, NJCBIR.
03/21/2026: Our human iPSC and neural repair review manuscript is now out in Progress in Neurobiology. It was led by Manasi. Read the full story here: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S030100822600033X. Congratulations Manasi!
03/18/2026: Manasi presented a poster at the 7th Neurosurgery Symposium, New Brunswick, NJ, USA.
03/18/2026: Pabi gave a talk on Local Translation at the Injured Axon: From Stress Response to Regeneration, 7th Neurosurgery Symposium, New Brunswick, NJ, USA.
02/09/2026: Our methods paper is now online in JoVE. It was led by Shruti and Manasi. Read the full story here: https://www.jove.com/t/69601/isolation-quantification-axonal-mrnas-using-porous-membrane-inserts. Congratulations, Shruti & Manasi!
12/03/2025: Shruti, Meghal, & Manasi presented posters at the BHI Symposium, Piscataway, NJ, USA. Shruti & Meghal received a travel award from BHI. Congratulations, Shruti & Meghal!
12/03/2025: Pabi gave a talk on Local Translation in Regeneration, Trauma, and Developmental Disorders, BHI Symposium, Piscataway, NJ, USA.
11/14/2025: Pabi gave a talk on From Repair to Development: How Stress Granules Rewire the Neuron, Dept. of Bio, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ, USA.
10/01/2025: Meghal received a one-year Postdoctoral Fellowship from the New Jersey Autism Center of Excellence (NJACE). Congratulations Meghal!
09/19/2025: Manasi gave a talk on Protein Phosphatase Inhibition Blocks Stress Granule Assembly and Promotes Axon Regeneration, 2025 Rutgers Postdoctoral Symposium, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ, USA.
09/19/2025: Meghal presented her poster at the 2025 Rutgers Postdoctoral Symposium, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ, USA. She won the Best Poster award. Congratulations Meghal!
09/16/2025: Meghal presented her poster at the NJ ACE annual meeting, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ, USA.
08/19-22/2025: Meghal, Shruti, and Manasi presented their posters at the ISN-ASN meeting, NYC, USA.
07/18/2025: Pabi gave a talk on Effect of OCNDS-associated CSNK2A1 mutations on G3BP1 granules, CSNK2A1 Foundation, Denver, CO, USA.
07/17/2025: Manasi gave a talk on Axonal G3BP1 granules regulate local protein synthesis in both central and peripheral nervous system neurons, 2025 Regeneron Science to Medicine Forum, Tarrytown, NY, USA.
07/10/2025: Tre Nelson (visiting undergrad from USC) presented his poster at the Summer Undergraduate Research Program trainee presentation. Rutgers University, Newark, NJ, USA.
06/23/2025: Shruti passed her Ph.D. qualifiers. Congratulations Shruti!
05/01/2025: Yashashree joins our lab. She is our second graduate student. Welcome Yashashree!
03/21/2025: Pabi gave a talk on Establishing the kinetics for failure of axonal protein synthesis in chronic nerve injury, Merkin PNNR Center, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA.
03/05/2025: Our PNAS work gets covered by Rutgers News. Read the full story here: https://research.rutgers.edu/news/rutgers-newark-research-team-unlocks-clues-repairing-damaged-nerves
02/17/2025: Pabi gave a talk on Unlocking Neural Repair: The Role of G3BP1 Inhibition in Axonal Regeneration, NJMS, Newark, NJ, USA.
02/01/2025: First peer-reviewed article from our lab is now out in Neural Regeneration Research. This was led by Meghal and Keya. Here is the full story: https://journals.lww.com/nrronline/fulltext/2026/02000/stress_granules__guardians_of_cellular_health_and.16.aspx. Congratulations Meghal & Keya!
01/25/2025: Our CNS regeneration work has now been published in PNAS. Here is the full story: https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2411811122
11/15/2024: Manasi and Meghal presented a poster at the 10th Annual BHI Symposium, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ, USA.
11/15/2024: Manasi gave a platform talk at the 10th Annual BHI Symposium, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ, USA.
10/29/2024: Pabi gave a talk on Physiological stress granules and their role in axon regeneration, NJIT, Newark, NJ, USA
10/08/2024: Pabi gave a talk on Conserved axonal protein synthesis inhibitor impedes CNS axon regeneration, Society for Neuroscience, Chicago, IL, USA.
07/01/2024: Dr. Manasi Agrawal joins us as our second postdoctoral fellow. Welcome Manasi!
06/08/2024: Pabi’s postdoc work is published in bioRxiv (https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.06.07.597743v1.abstract).
05/29/2024: Krystina and Ella presented a poster to the 50 rising juniors at North Star High School, NJ.
05/20/2024: Keya received summer research fellowship from Honors Summer Research Institute program, NJIT. Congratulations Keya! This is our first trainee award 🙂
05/14/2024: Shruti Ghumra joins us as a rotating Ph.D. student. Welcome Shruti!
04/01/2024: Alaa Karim from Rutgers joins us as an undergraduate researcher.
03/20/2024: Keya Gulati from NJIT joins our lab as an undergraduate researcher.
02/07/2024: Mohamed Amer joins as the second work study undergraduate student in the lab.
02/05/2024: Krystina and Ella are the new High School interns in the lab.
02/01/2024: Dr. Meghal Desai joins us as our first postdoctoral fellow. Welcome Meghal!
01/09/2024: Our collaborative manuscript with Turner lab is published in Neuropharmacology (https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0028390824000121).
12/26/2023: Our G3BP1-neurodegeneration patent (https://patents.google.com/patent/US11851462B2/en) is approved by USPTO.
12/15/2023: Pabi deliver a talk titled “Stress in Neurons…. & in life?” at NCCS, Pune.
11/30/2023: Kaili and Pabi attended the BHI symposium at New Brunswick campus.
11/15/2023: Pabi attended the annual SfN meeting at Washington DC.
10/01/2023: Noor Amira joins as the first work study undergraduate student in the lab.
09/01/2023: Kaili Taylor joins us as our first rotating Ph.D. student.
09/01/2023: Our lab is now officially open for business!!! Looking forward to all the exciting endeavors:)