{"id":625,"date":"2023-09-11T16:21:44","date_gmt":"2023-09-11T16:21:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/sahoo-lab\/?page_id=625"},"modified":"2026-05-08T19:18:02","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T19:18:02","slug":"news-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/sahoo-lab\/news-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Lab News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>04\/21\/2026<\/strong>: Pabi gave a talk on <i>Axonal mRNA storage and release: a granule-centric model of regeneration, <\/i>American Society for Neurochemistry, St. Charles, MO, USA.<\/p>\n<p><strong>04\/19\/2026<\/strong>: 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. <strong>Congratulations Shruti!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>04\/01\/2026<\/strong>: Our lab received its first major grant from the New Jersey Commission on Brain Injury Research. Thank you, NJCBIR.<\/p>\n<p><strong>03\/21\/2026<\/strong>: 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: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S030100822600033X\">https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S030100822600033X<\/a>. <strong>Congratulations Manasi!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>03\/18\/2026<\/strong>: Manasi presented a poster at the<i>\u00a0<\/i>7<span class=\"s1\">th <\/span>Neurosurgery Symposium, New Brunswick, NJ, USA.<\/p>\n<p><strong>03\/18\/2026<\/strong>: Pabi gave a talk on <i>Local Translation at the Injured Axon: From Stress Response to Regeneration, <\/i>7<span class=\"s1\">th <\/span>Neurosurgery Symposium, New Brunswick, NJ, USA.<\/p>\n<p><strong>02\/09\/2026<\/strong>: <span class=\"css-1jxf684 r-bcqeeo r-1ttztb7 r-qvutc0 r-poiln3\">Our methods paper is now online in JoVE. It was led by Shruti and \u00a0<\/span><span class=\"r-18u37iz\">Manasi. Read the full story here: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jove.com\/t\/69601\/isolation-quantification-axonal-mrnas-using-porous-membrane-inserts\">https:\/\/www.jove.com\/t\/69601\/isolation-quantification-axonal-mrnas-using-porous-membrane-inserts<\/a>.\u00a0<strong>Congratulations, Shruti &amp; Manasi!<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>12\/03\/2025<\/strong>: Shruti, Meghal, &amp; Manasi presented posters at the BHI Symposium, Piscataway, NJ, USA. Shruti &amp; Meghal received a travel award from BHI. <strong>Congratulations, Shruti &amp; Meghal!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>12\/03\/2025<\/strong>: Pabi gave a talk on <i>Local Translation in Regeneration, Trauma, and Developmental Disorders, <\/i>BHI Symposium, Piscataway, NJ, USA.<\/p>\n<p><strong>11\/14\/2025<\/strong>: Pabi gave a talk on <i>From Repair to Development: How Stress Granules Rewire the Neuron<\/i>, Dept. of Bio, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ, USA.<\/p>\n<p><strong>10\/01\/2025<\/strong>: Meghal received a one-year Postdoctoral Fellowship from the New Jersey Autism Center of Excellence (NJACE). <strong>Congratulations Meghal<\/strong>!<\/p>\n<p><strong>09\/19\/2025<\/strong>: Manasi gave a talk on <em>Protein Phosphatase Inhibition Blocks Stress Granule Assembly and Promotes Axon Regeneration,<\/em>\u00a02025 Rutgers Postdoctoral Symposium, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ, USA.<\/p>\n<p><strong>09\/19\/2025<\/strong>: Meghal presented her poster at the 2025 Rutgers Postdoctoral Symposium, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ, USA. She won the Best Poster award. <strong>Congratulations Meghal!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>09\/16\/2025<\/strong>: Meghal presented her poster at the NJ ACE annual meeting, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ, USA.<\/p>\n<p><strong>08\/19-22\/2025<\/strong>: Meghal, Shruti, and Manasi presented their posters at the ISN-ASN meeting, NYC, USA.<\/p>\n<p><strong>07\/18\/2025<\/strong>: Pabi gave a talk on <i>Effect of OCNDS-associated CSNK2A1 mutations on G3BP1 granules<\/i>, CSNK2A1 Foundation, Denver, CO, USA.<\/p>\n<p><strong>07\/17\/2025<\/strong>: Manasi gave a talk on <em>Axonal G3BP1 granules regulate local protein synthesis in both central and peripheral nervous system neurons,<\/em>\u00a02025 Regeneron Science to Medicine Forum, Tarrytown, NY, USA.<\/p>\n<p><strong>07\/10\/2025<\/strong>: Tre Nelson (visiting undergrad from USC) presented his poster at the Summer Undergraduate Research Program trainee presentation. Rutgers University, Newark, NJ, USA.<\/p>\n<p><strong>06\/23\/2025<\/strong>: Shruti passed her Ph.D. qualifiers. <strong>Congratulations Shruti!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>05\/01\/2025<\/strong>: Yashashree joins our lab. She is our second graduate student. <strong>Welcome Yashashree!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>03\/21\/2025<\/strong>: Pabi gave a talk on <i>Establishing the kinetics for failure of axonal protein synthesis in chronic nerve injury<\/i>, Merkin PNNR Center, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA.<\/p>\n<p><strong>03\/05\/2025<\/strong>: Our PNAS work gets covered by Rutgers News. Read the full story here: <a href=\"https:\/\/research.rutgers.edu\/news\/rutgers-newark-research-team-unlocks-clues-repairing-damaged-nerves\">https:\/\/research.rutgers.edu\/news\/rutgers-newark-research-team-unlocks-clues-repairing-damaged-nerves<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>02\/17\/2025<\/strong>: Pabi gave a talk on <i>Unlocking Neural Repair: The Role of G3BP1 Inhibition in Axonal Regeneration<\/i>, NJMS, Newark, NJ, USA.<\/p>\n<p><strong>02\/01\/2025<\/strong>: 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: <a href=\"https:\/\/journals.lww.com\/nrronline\/fulltext\/2026\/02000\/stress_granules__guardians_of_cellular_health_and.16.aspx\">https:\/\/journals.lww.com\/nrronline\/fulltext\/2026\/02000\/stress_granules__guardians_of_cellular_health_and.16.aspx<\/a>. <strong>Congratulations Meghal &amp; Keya!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>01\/25\/2025<\/strong>: Our CNS regeneration work has now been published in PNAS. Here is the full story: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pnas.org\/doi\/10.1073\/pnas.2411811122\">https:\/\/www.pnas.org\/doi\/10.1073\/pnas.2411811122<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>11\/15\/2024<\/strong>: Manasi and Meghal presented a poster at the 10th Annual BHI Symposium, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ, USA.<\/p>\n<p><strong>11\/15\/2024<\/strong>: Manasi gave a platform talk at the 10th Annual BHI Symposium, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ, USA.<\/p>\n<p><strong>10\/29\/2024<\/strong>: Pabi gave a talk on <i>Physiological stress granules and their role in axon regeneration<\/i>, NJIT, Newark, NJ, USA<\/p>\n<p><strong>10\/08\/2024<\/strong>: Pabi gave a talk on <i>Conserved axonal protein synthesis inhibitor impedes CNS axon regeneration<\/i>, Society for Neuroscience, Chicago, IL, USA.<\/p>\n<p><strong>07\/01\/2024<\/strong>: Dr. Manasi Agrawal joins us as our second postdoctoral fellow. <strong>Welcome Manasi!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>06\/08\/2024<\/strong>: Pabi&#8217;s postdoc work is published in bioRxiv (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.biorxiv.org\/content\/10.1101\/2024.06.07.597743v1.abstract)\">https:\/\/www.biorxiv.org\/content\/10.1101\/2024.06.07.597743v1.abstract)<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>05\/29\/2024<\/strong>: Krystina and Ella presented a poster to the 50 rising juniors at North Star High School, NJ.<\/p>\n<p><strong>05\/20\/2024<\/strong>: Keya received summer research fellowship from Honors Summer Research Institute program, NJIT. Congratulations Keya! This is our first trainee award \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p><strong>05\/14\/2024<\/strong>: Shruti Ghumra joins us as a rotating Ph.D. student. <strong>Welcome Shruti!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>04\/01\/2024<\/strong>: Alaa Karim from Rutgers joins us as an undergraduate researcher.<\/p>\n<p><strong>03\/20\/2024<\/strong>: Keya Gulati from NJIT joins our lab as an undergraduate researcher.<\/p>\n<p><strong>02\/07\/2024<\/strong>: Mohamed Amer joins as the second work study undergraduate student in the lab.<\/p>\n<p><strong>02\/05\/2024<\/strong>: Krystina and Ella are the new High School interns in the lab.<\/p>\n<p><strong>02\/01\/2024<\/strong>: Dr. Meghal Desai joins us as our first postdoctoral fellow. <strong>Welcome Meghal!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>01\/09\/2024<\/strong>: Our collaborative manuscript with Turner lab is published in Neuropharmacology (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S0028390824000121\">https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S0028390824000121<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p><strong>12\/26\/2023<\/strong>: Our G3BP1-neurodegeneration patent (<a href=\"https:\/\/patents.google.com\/patent\/US11851462B2\/en\">https:\/\/patents.google.com\/patent\/US11851462B2\/en<\/a>) is approved by USPTO.<\/p>\n<p><strong>12\/15\/2023<\/strong>: Pabi deliver a talk titled &#8220;Stress in Neurons&#8230;. &amp; in life?&#8221; at NCCS, Pune.<\/p>\n<p><strong>11\/30\/2023<\/strong>: Kaili and Pabi attended the BHI symposium at New Brunswick campus.<\/p>\n<p><strong>11\/15\/2023<\/strong>: Pabi attended the annual SfN meeting at Washington DC.<\/p>\n<p><strong>10\/01\/2023<\/strong>: Noor Amira joins as the first work study undergraduate student in the lab.<\/p>\n<p><strong>09\/01\/2023<\/strong>: Kaili Taylor joins us as our first rotating Ph.D. student.<\/p>\n<p><strong>09\/01\/2023<\/strong>: Our lab is now officially open for business!!! 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