Recent News
12-01-21
I was awarded a 2-yr CAGT Genome Technology Fellowship to continue my postdoctoral research exploring gene regulatory mechanisms in zebrafish regeneration.
09-01-21
I have left the Kalsotra Lab after finishing my graduate work. Starting my postdoc in the Poss and Di Talia labs and I am really excited!!!
05-19-21
I successfully defended my thesis work today. It is officially Dr. Bangru now.
03-01-21
Our recent preprint on the single-cell analysis of liver regeneration is now published in Genome Research!! Really looking forward to following this up with a couple of stories we got brewing…
12-01-20
I spent the past month applying and interviewing with some amazing labs for a postdoctoral position. And, have decided to join a co-mentored position with Dr. Ken Poss and Dr. Stefano Di Talia at Duke University in Fall 2021. Here’s to new adventures!!!
09-30-20
The first research project I was involved in as an undergraduate was recently published in Bioscience Reports. I first started working on it over 7 years ago!
05-31-20
My most recent work which I co-authored with my labmate Ullas, is now up on bioarxiv! Best project I have worked on!
05-20-20
I was awarded the Scott Dissertation Completion Fellowship 2020-21 by the UIUC Graduate College!!
04-04-20
A collaborative effort with the Hernaez & Ochoa Labs is now available on bioarxiv!
03-17-20
A collaboration with my friend and former roommate, Indrajit Srivastava @therealindrajit, was published in ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces !
02-28-20
A new study I was involved in the Kalsotra Lab was published recently Developmental Cell! A really cool discovery, glad to be a part of it.
01-20-20
I wrote a review with Dr. Kalsotra on liver regeneration for Seminars in Cell & Developmental Biology! My second review, I think I am beginning to get a hang of this.
01-16-20
Great start to the new year!! A collaborative project with the Diehl Lab@Duke was published in Journal of Clinical Investigation! Glad to have made a small contribution!!
07-15-19
Me and Waqar were awarded the Colin A. Wraight Memorial Award 2019 in Biochemistry for our paper last year on liver regeneration and ESRP2.
02-15-19
The method we developed previously for celltype specific isolation of ribosomes from hepatocytes was published in Methods!
10-01-18
Woohoo!! My first first-author paper just got published. We show how the Hippo pathway is rewired through alternative splicing to enable liver regeneration published in Nature Structural & Molecular Biology. Shout to my co-author Waqar, and also my lab members!!
05-15-18
I was selected as a “Tissue Microenvironment Training Program” (TiMe) Fellow. It will provide support for the next two years!!!