Funtime at the EMBO meeting in India!
Lindsey passes her QE!!
2023 holiday celebration. Thanks Taylor for Barbie pipette!
Lovely Nov.2023: Lindsey's bridal shower and Lab's giving
Celebrating Natasha's thesis committee presentation @Puttshack
Our first BBQ party was a blast!
Busy September: Celebrating all Virgos and BBSB retreat!
Lab outing on the 2nd b'day of the Verma lab
Lab at 2023 Midwest DNA repair conference
2023 CGI Annual Retreat
Thank you Lindsey for the personalized Verma Lab mugs!!
Verma lab ritual: Playing Codename!
Happy Holidays, 2022!
Ladies in Black-At the Oncology Holiday Party!
Brewery Lights 2022!
White elephant with Vindigni lab
Happy Holidays!
Welcome Kevin, Ayda, Tessa, and Sham!
Happy Birthday, Taylor!
Lab at CGI retreat 2022
Shakespeare in the park
Lab is 1 year old now!
Thanks, Taylor, for the yummy cupcakes!
Happy Birthday, Ena!
Mentor-Mentee team rocked at MGG retreat!
Serious Ena doing lab’s favorite experiment!
Labsgiving 2022 with Vindigni Lab!
Ayda rocked at the Cancer Symposium!
2024
March 1st: WOOT! The lab gets 1 percentile for NCI-R01 and a score of 20 for NIGMS-MIRA!!!!
Feb 16th: Priyanka gives a talk and Natasha a poster at the EMBO DNA repair meeting in India!
Feb 2nd: Lindsey passes her QE-yet another outstanding PhD candidate added to the lab!
Jan 20th: Priyanka was awarded the OCRA Schreiber Research Prize for Outstanding Mentored Investigator!
Jan 10th: Lab receives Siteman Research Program Catalyst Award from the Breast Cancer Program !
2023
October 18th: An amazing thesis committee presentation by Natasha. Also, she gets the best poster prize at the MGG retreat!
October 12th/13th: Priyanka presents our ALC1 story at Social DNAing and Kanas University Medical Center!
September 22nd: Lindsey Aubuchon is awarded the competitive Molecular Oncology Training Grant!
August 14th: We welcome our new postdoc Tibebe Antonios and research tech, Vrutti Mehta!
August 2nd: Verma Lab is two years old now!
July 5th: Grateful for a big-three year Career Catalyst Research grant from Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation!
May 11th: Another fun CGI retreat-Taylor gave a fabulous talk and Natasha presents a poster on her exciting story!
May 6th: Lab attends 2023 Midwest DNA repair conference. Natasha & Taylor got the second prize for poster and Ena gave a fantastic talk!
April 14th: Congrats to our star undergrad Kevin Song to receive the BioSURF Fellowship!
March 30th: Another wonderful addition to the team-Lindsey Aubuchon joins the lab for her Ph.D.!
March 27th: First federal grant for the lab from the Ovarian Cancer Academy-Department of Defense!
March 25th: Our paper on performing arrayed CRISPR screen using Cas9 orthologs is online now!
March 20th: Priyanka gives a talk on our recent ALC1 work at the Keystone DNA Repair Meeting!
February 27th: We welcome rotation student, Lindsey Aubuchon, from the Cancer Biology Program!
February 10th: Our method paper on Quantifying ss-DNA in cells in online now. Great job by Natasha and Ena!
January 11th:Thank you Siteman Cancer Center for a great start to the New Year-the lab receives the ACS-IRG funding!
2022
December 9th: Two big events: Ayda won the best talk at the Siteman Cancer Symposium and the first Pubmed entry from the lab!
November 28th: Big day for the Verma Lab: Natasha passes her QE with flying colors!!
October 10th: We are grateful for the Fourth grant in this year-thank you Mary Kay Ash Foundation!
October 3rd: Lab gets another big grant from Ovarian Cancer Research Alliance!
Sep14th: Natasha, Ena & Priyanka attend the fun MGG retreat-Natasha gave a spectacular poster presentation! Wait -she is still in GR2!
Sept 6: We welcome rotation student, Ena Haseljic!
Aug 17: Our lab receives the prestigious V-Foundation Award!
Aug 1: Verma Lab is one year old! So grateful for all the amazing lab members!
Apr 22: Lab attends the CGI retreat. Ayda gives a talk on her cool ALC1 story. Everyone presents a poster and competes in s’more making!
Apr 4: Whoo!! Exciting times ahead!! Natasha joins the lab for her graduate studies.
Mar 21: Welcome Sham, our newest undergraduate student!
Mar 11: Verma lab obtains their first external grant from the Rivkin Center for ovarian cancer research!
Feb 1: The lab grows! We welcome our 1st undergrad, Kevin Song, 2nd tech, Ayda Woldegerima and 3rd rotation student, Tessa Lochetto!
2021
Nov 29, 2021: Lab welcomes MGG rotation student, Natasha Ramakrishnan!
Nov 8, 2021: First rotation student, Taylor Malachowski!
Aug 30, 2021: First research tech, Taylor Just, joins the lab!
Aug 2, 2021: Verma lab officially opens its door!