June, 2026
- MCB features Reean as the inaugural recipient of Irene M. Jones Graduate Fellowship. Read the story here.
May 15, 2026
- Graduation and farewell party for Tarun and Pallob.
May 11, 2026
- Pallob successfully defends his PhD thesis, 3.5 years after he joined the lab, and he is heading to Regeneron as a Senior Scientist.
May, 2026
- Reean wins THREE awards: the inaugural Chester and Nadine Houston Summer Graduate Fellowship; the Best 3rd-Year Graduate Student Seminar Presentation Award; the Irene M. Jones Graduate Fellowship.
April, 2026
- Exactly two years after his first marathon, Pallob completed the Illinois marathon again, improving his running time by 48 minutes on the same course! On a side note, Jie ran her first 10K race around the same time and briefly crossed paths with Pallob mid-race before he zoomed past her.
- Pallob and Reean’s paper is highlighted by MCB. Read the story here.
January, 2026
- Pallob and Reean (and co-workers) publish the TARS story in JBC as a Communication. The paper is an Editors’ Pick! Read the article here.
December, 2025
- Jesus celebrates PhD at UIUC Doctoral Hooding Ceremony. See photo.
November, 2025
- Pallob completes his 3rd marathon with a new personal record (almost under 3 hours) in Richmond, Virginia.
- Reean receives a best poster award at the CDB retreat.
August, 2025
- Pallob starts his co-op at Regeneron.
- Jesus leaves for a postdoc position at U Chicago, and he wins an “Outstanding TA in MCB” award — what a way to say goodbye to graduate school!
- Pallob is a silver medalist in his age group at half marathon of Mahomet. See photo and time.
July, 2025
- Adriana and coworkers publish in Journal of Lipid Research: “Nanodisc single-molecule pulldown to study lipid-protein interactions”. Read the article here.
June, 2025
- Jesus successfully defended his PhD thesis on Juneteenth.
Congratulations Dr. Moreno!!!
See photos: popping, champagne, parents
June, 2025
- Adriana’s paper is in press at Journal of Lipid Research.
- Pallob receives a 2024-2025 CDB notable seminar presentation award.
- Jesus, Jae-Sung and coworkers publish in iScience: “Regulation of Rho guanine nucleotide exchange factor 3 by phosphorylation in the PH domain”. Read the article here.
April, 2025
- Reean passes her prelim exam with flying colors.
- John receives MCB summer research fellowship.
- Cesar wins multiple awards:
– MCB award of highest research distinction
– CDB award for undergraduate research achievement
– Roderick MacLeod award for academic excellence - Pallob completes his 3rd marathon in Louisville, Kentucky, setting yet another new record of time for himself. See his time and photo.
February, 2025
- Pallob receives travel award from ASBMB to attend the annual meeting in April.
December, 2024
- Allison receives her PhD at UIUC Doctoral Hooding Ceremony. See photos:
MCB, CLSL, TC, parents, hooding - Pallob publishes in Journal of Cell Communication and Signaling. Read article.
November, 2024
- Pallob completes his second marathon in Indianapolis, Indiana – beating his previous time by 30 minutes! See his time and photo.
October 31, 2024
- Allison successfully defended her PhD thesis on her favorite day of the year.
Congratulations Dr. Boss-Kennedy!!!
See photos: before, during, after, party, lab twin, proud advisor, proud parents!
October, 2024
- Pallob receives travel award from ASCB to attend the annual meeting in December.
July, 2024
- Allison, Dongwook, and Pallob et al. publish in The FASEB Journal.
Read article.
May, 2024
- Jae-Sung et al. publishes in American Journal of Pathology.
Read article.
April, 2024 (a busy month!)
- Chen Lab at the MCB awards:
– Allison wins the CDB Outstanding TA Award (for the second time).
– Brendan wins the CDB Undergraduate Research Achievement Award.
– Pallob wins the Tom and Cynthia Cycyota Award for Outstanding Graduate Research.
See photo. - Pallob completes his first marathon, and the entire lab cheers him on and witnesses him surpassing his own goal for the time.
See photo. See Pallob’s time. - Pallob passes his preliminary exam with flying colors.
March, 2024
- Pallob publishes a review in Biochemical Society Transactions.
Read article. - Rachel and Dongwook’s 2022 review article is one of the most read papers in the journal.
December, 2023
- Jie receives MCB Faculty Research Excellence Award. See photo.
October, 2023
- Jae-Sung et al. publishes in Journal of Cachexia, Sarcopenia and Muscle.
Read article. The article is featured here.
August, 2023
- Jae-Sung et al. publishes in Physiological Reports.
Read article.
April, 2023
- Allison receives the CDB Graduate Student Platform Presentation Award.
December, 2022
- Allison gives an oral presentation at the ASCB annual meeting.
April, 2022
- Allison receives the CDB Outstanding TA Award.
February, 2022
- Rachel and Dongwook publish a review in The FEBS Journal.
Read article.
November, 2021
- Jae-Sung publishes in Frontiers in Physiology.
Read article.
October, 2021
- Chong et al. publishes in The FASEB Journal.
Read article.
September, 2021
- Dongwook defends his PhD thesis. Congratulations Dr. Kim!
See photo.
August, 2021
- Nilmani and Adriana et al. publish in Nature Communications.
Read article. The article is featured here.
May, 2021
- Jie receives campus Award for Excellence in Graduate Student Mentoring.
- A LanCL story is published in Cell (van der Donk lab, Davis lab (UK) and Chen lab).
Read article. The article is featured here.
April, 2021
- Allison passes her preliminary exam.
January, 2021