2025

  • Big Publication Alert: Venkatramanan G. Rao publishes his first-author study on cilia regeneration in vertebrates in EMBO Reports.

  • Best Talk Award: Angelo Arrigo wins the Best Graduate Presentation at the SDB Mid-Atlantic Regional Meeting and gives a selected talk at the FASEB Septin Conference!

  • Publication Alert: Takuya Nakayama publishes his first-author study on genomic complexity in CCDC40 genes in Xenopus Tropicalis in Micropublication Biology.

  • Preprint Alert: Vani Narayanan's work on tension-dependent centriole number regulation is now live on bioRxiv — an exciting look into mechanochemical signaling in MCCs.

  • Multiple Wins for Angelo Arrigo: Angelo wins the EXPAND Travel Award and the UVA Cell Biology Graduate Training Fund to support his work this year.

  • Undergraduate Impact: Victoria Hua receives the Ingrassia Summer Family Grant and presents her work for the third consecutive year at the UVA Undergraduate Research Symposium.

  • New Trainee Achievements: Krishna Girish Kumar and Kranti Kaur present posters at the UVA Summer Research Symposium. Both were part of our summer research training cohort.

2024

  • Honors for Angelo Arrigo: Angelo receives the UVA Britt Award and is again recognized by the UVA Cell Biology Graduate Training Fund for excellence in research and leadership.

  • Publication Alert: Angelo Arrigo's paper on CCDC11 in ciliogenesis is now published in Cytoskeleton (2024) — his first publication from the lab!

  • Multiple Wins for Victoria Hua: Victoria receives the Harrison Undergraduate Research Award and Ingrassia Fall Family Grant awarded to support her ongoing reasearch in the lab.

  • Conference Spotlight: Venkat Rao presents at FASEB Cilia and Flagella Conference, continuing to shape our understanding of MCC regeneration.

  • Award Alert : Angelo is selected for the MBL Embryology course with travel award.

2023

  • Big Win for Angelo Arrigo: Angelo receives the Cellular and Molecular Biology NIH Training Grant for his excellent work.

  • Conference Spotlight: Venkat witns the travel award and presents a poster at the International Xenopus conference.

  • Publication Alert: Saurabh publishes a Xenopus conference meeting report highlight the latest developments and future perspectives.

  • Microscopy View: Vani and Vignesh attend the advanced microscopy workshop at UVA

2022

  • ASCB Spotlight: Venkat delivers a competitively selected oral presentation at the American Society for Cell Biology Annual Meeting.

  • ASCB Spotlight: Vani Narayanan presents a poster on her work on mechanochemical signaling in MCCs at the American Society for Cell Biology Annual Meeting.

  • Poster Milestones: Rohan Vij and Shruthi Bhimaraju both presented their work at UVA undergraduate symposia.

  • Undergraduate Impact: Rohan Vij and Shruthi Bhimaraju both receive the Minerva Research Grant.

    2021

  • Publication Alert: Lab publishes seminal work on mechanochemical regulation of centriole number control in multiciliated cells in eLife.

  • Publication Win: Venkat publishes invited first-author review on disease modeling in frogs as a model organism in Genesis.