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Lab News

  • We have a new graduate student! Welcome, Jenna Grindeland! (May 2024).
  • Kaitlyn Gura has received the NSF-GRFP! Congratulations, Kaitlyn (April 2024).
  • We have a new graduate student! Welcome, Kaitlyn Gura! (May 2023).
  • We have a new lab technician! Welcome, Mollie Hostetter! (January 2023).
  • Jarret Merschman is leaving the lab to work at the Mayo Clinic. Congratulations, Jarret! (November 2022).
  • Atrayee Ray is leaving to work on stem cells at the Medical College of Wisconsin (August 2022). Congratulations on the new position!
  • Smruthi Rudraraju is graduating with her PhD and moving to Boston to work as a patent agent. Congratulations, Smruthi! (July 2021).
  • We are now funded by the DoD to work on epigenetics of Lyme arthritis (May 2020)!
  • Congratulations, Dr. Atrayee Bhattacharya on a successful PhD defense (November 2019). Atrayee is off to a postdoc at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Donald Kufe’s
  • Congratulations to Atrayee Bhattacharya for winning a Barbara Ann Earwicker award at the North Dakota Academy of Sciences meeting (March 2019)!

  • Congratulations to Kole Hermanson for winning the Arts and Sciences Undergraduate Research/Creative Activity Award! (December 2018).

  • Welcome to our new postdoc, Atrayee Ray (August 2018).
  • Congratulations to Atrayee Bhattacharya, recipient of a 2018-2019 Faculty for Student Scholarship from the Biomedical Sciences graduate program! (August 2018).
  • Congratulations to Atrayee Bhattacharya, recipient of the Richard Marwin Scholarship (August 2018).
  • Congratulations to Atrayee Bhattacharya for being the recipient of the ND-EPSCoR Doctoral Dissertation Award! (June 2018).
  • Congratulations to Smruthi Rudraraju for placing 2nd in the Natural Sciences division poster session at the annual UND GRAD day! (March 2018).
  • Janani Kumar has accepted a new position at the MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, TX. She will be starting as a research associate in September 2017. Congratulations, Janani!
  • Congratulations to Janani Kumar for winning the best oral presentation award at the North Dakota Academy of Sciences meeting! (April 2017).
  • Congratulations to Janani Kumar for the Best Poster Award at the 37th Annual Frank Low Research Day, April 2017.
  • Congratulations Atrayee for winning a travel award to attend the 25th annual short course on Experimental Models of Human Cancer at the Jackson laboratories, August 2016!
  • Congratulations to Janani Kumar for receiving a scholarship to attend the Cold Spring Harbor workshop on Chromatin and Gene Expression, 2016!

Read the latest articles from the lab here

    • RNA Polymerase II Pausing Can Be Retained or Acquired During Activation of Genes Involved in the Epithelial to Mesenchymal Transition
Archana Dhasarathy
Assistant Professor
Columbia Hall 1733a
P 701.777.4285
archana.dhasarathy@med.und.edu

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