News Archive | The Fromme Lab

March 2024: Qingqing Huang has joined the lab. Welcome, Qingqing!
February 2024: Bryce’s paper on the structure of Sec7 and its autoinhibitory mechanism, has been published in PNAS!
January 2024: Shamar won the George Hess Travel Award from the MBG Department. Congratulations, Shamar!
October 2023: Claudia was awarded a grant supplement from the NIH. Congratulations, Claudia!
September 2023: Kaitlyn’s paper on the dynamics of Arf1 and Arf-GAPs at the Golgi, and how Age2 localizes to the TGN, has been published in Molecular Biology of the Cell!
September 2023: Mingqin Chang has joined the lab. Welcome, Mingqin!
August 2023: Our collaboration with the Liu lab in which we used AlphaFold to predict protein-protein interfaces relevant to BMP signaling has been published in PLoS Biology!
July 2023: Saket’s crystallography collaboration with the Baskin lab to understand their evolved phospholipase D enzymes has been published in Nature Chemistry!
May 2023: Shamar and Saket’s SARS-CoV-2 crystallography collaboration with the Lin lab has been published in ACS Chemical Biology!
March 2023: Cornell’s Graduate School did a profile on Saket!
March 2023: Isaac Lamptey has joined the lab. Welcome, Isaac!
March 2023: Saket has been awarded the Harold M. Weintraub Graduate Student Award by the Fred Hutch Cancer Center. Congratulations, Saket!
February 2023: Saket won the George Hess Travel Award from the MBG Department. Congratulations, Saket!
January 2023: Claudia Chambliss has joined the lab. Welcome, Claudia!
December 2022: Saket’s review on the structure and specificity of the TRAPP complexes has been published in FEBS Letters!
December 2022: Carolyn’s Methods paper describing a Rab-GAP assay, originally developed by Laura Thomas, and her recommended best practices for liposome flotation has been published in Methods in Molecular Biology!
November 2022: Ryan’s collaboration with the Paczkowski lab to determine the structure of the Pseudomonas aeruginosa RhlR-PqsE quorum sensing complex has been published in Structure!
September 2022: Saket has been awarded the Spicer Young Investigator Award from SLAC. Congratulations, Saket!!!
September 2022: Saket has been awarded the Porter Prize for Research Excellence from the American Society for Cell Biology. Congratulations, Saket!!!
August 2022: Arnold’s paper presenting cryoEM structures of Gea2 and a Gea2-Arf1 activation intermediate has been published in Cell Reports!
August 2022: Huge congratulations to our former student Aaron Joiner for being selected as an HHMI Hannah Gray Fellow!!!
August 2022: Shamar passed his A-exam!
July 2022: Arnold passed his B-exam!
July 2022: Ari passed her A-exam!
June 2022: Saket was awarded the 2021 LPS Best Paper award for the BMCB Graduate Field. Congratulations, Saket!
June 2022: Postdoctoral Fellow Ryan Vignogna has joined the lab. Welcome, Ryan!
May 2022: Ryan Feathers has been selected as a delegate for the ASBMB Advocacy Training Program! Congratulations, Ryan!
May 2022: Saket was awarded the Traffic Journal Poster Award at the FASEB Small GTPases in Membrane Processes Conference!
May 2022: Saket’s paper on the cryoEM structure of the TRAPPII complex activating Rab11/Ypt32 has been published in Science Advances!
April 2022: Ari was awarded an NSF GRFP! Congratulations, Ari!!!
March 2022: Anna Allen has joined the lab. Welcome, Anna!
March 2022: Ryan Feathers won the George Hess Travel Award from the MBG Department. Congratulations, Ryan!
November 2021: Carolyn’s collaboration with Richa Sardana and the Emr lab has been published in eLife!
November 2021: Saket’s study that he began as a Master’s student in Chu-Young Kim’s lab at UTEP and finished as a Ph.D. student in our lab has been published in Science! See also Cornell Chronicle and CALS News articles.
September 2021: Bryce’s collaboration with the Sondermann lab has been published in eLife!
September 2021: Ryan’s collaboration with the Song lab has been published in Cell Reports!
July 2021: Carolyn passed her B-exam!
Summer 2021: Ari Broad and Shamar Wallace joined our lab for their Ph.D. studies!!
May 2021: Aaron’s paper on the cryo-EM structure of TRAPPIII activating Rab1/Ypt1 has been published in The EMBO Journal! Ben Glick also wrote a nice News & Views article about it.
May 2021: Aaron has been awarded a Miller Fellowship for his postdoctoral training in the Hurley Lab at UC Berkeley!
April 2021: Aaron’s paper on the structure of Sec12 activating Sar1 to initiate COPII vesicle biogenesis has been published in Structure! David Lambright and Jianjun Duan also wrote a great Preview article.
April 2021: Carolyn’s paper on the direct role of Arf1 in PI4P synthesis by the Pik1-Frq1 PI-4 kinase complex has been published in MBoC!
April 2021: Laura and Carolyn’s paper on the direct role of Arf1 in Rab inactivation at the Golgi has been published in MBoC!
March 2021: Ryan’s paper exploring the costs and benefits of super-resolution cryo-EM has been published in JSB:X!
January 2021: Aaron’s collaboration with the Smolka lab has been published in EMBO Reports!
July 2020: Aaron passed his B-exam!
June 2020: Saket passed his A-exam!
June 2020: Aaron won the Exemplary Service Award for his “efforts aimed at improving diversity, access, equity, and inclusion within academia and providing opportunities for all”!
June 2020: Kaitlyn passed her A-exam!
April 2020: The Fromme lab was awarded an NIH MIRA grant to fund our research for the next five years!
March 2020: Laura’s review on GTPase regulation of the Golgi complex has been published online in Current Opinion in Cell Biology!
February 2020: Steve’s collaboration with Hening Lin’s lab has been published in Nature Communications!
December 2019: Ryan passed his A-exam!
June 2019: Bryce passed his A-exam!
May 2019: Graduate students Saket Bagde and Kaitlyn Manzer joined the lab. Welcome!!!
April 2019: Ryan Feathers was awarded a Ford Foundation Fellowship!
March 2019: Aaron Joiner won the George Hess Travel Award!
March 2019: Uche Chukwukere has been re-elected to the Student Assembly!
March 2019: Laura has been selected as the Graduate School Banner Bearer for Cornell’s graduation ceremony in May!
January 2019: Laura’s paper is featured on the cover of Developmental Cell! David Lambright and Jianjun Duan also wrote a very nice Preview of the paper.
November 2018: Laura’s paper on Rab GTPase substrate recognition was accepted at Developmental Cell!
October 2018: Chris was selected as a Mentor of the Year at the Institute on Teaching and Mentoring, sponsored by the Southern Regional Education Board. Thanks for nominating me, Aaron!
October 2018: Aaron won a best poster award at the BMCB/GGD Student Symposium!
May 2018: Graduate students Bryce Brownfield and Ryan Feathers have joined the lab. Welcome!!!!
May 2018: At the annual DPE awards banquet, Steve Halaby was honored with the Robert Mozia Graduate Distinguished Service Award and Aaron Joiner was honored as Student of the Year!!!!
April 2018: Chris was recognized with the “Faculty Champion Award” for his efforts to improve diversity in our graduate programs.
March 2018: Steve’s paper on the Sec7 HUS-box has been accepted by JBC!
December 2017: Aaron was profiled on the Cornell Research website!
October 2017: Steve has been awarded a Provost’s Diversity Fellowship. Congratulations, Steve!
October 2017: Laura and Aaron’s paper on the function of TRAPPIII at the Golgi has been accepted by JCB!
September 2017: Maggie’s paper on Gea1/2 has been accepted by MBoC!
September 2017: The Cornell Research website has done a profile on our lab.
August 2017: Steve has received the George P. Hess Travel Award. Congratulations, Steve!
August 2017: Carolyn passed her A-exam. Congratulations, Carolyn!!
May 2017: Graduate student Arnold Muccini joined the lab. Welcome Arnold!
May 2017: Laura Thomas won the LPS BMCB Best Paper award! (many thanks to Frank Meleca at LPS!)
May 2017: Carolyn has been awarded an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship!
May 2017: Steve Halaby was awarded the Advanced Career Exemplary Service Award from the Cornell OISE!
May 2017: Laura Thomas won a poster award at the Canadian Society for Molecular Biosciences!
May 2017: Aaron was selected as the “BESTie of the month”!
April 2017: Visiting student Kelly Rosch presented her work at the CURB (Cornell Undergraduate Research Board) Spring Forum.
April 2017: Aaron Joiner and Steve Halaby were inducted into the Bouchet Honor Society!
March 2017: Carolyn earned Honorable Mention in the NSF GRFP competition. Congratulations, Carolyn!
November 2016: Steve Halaby and Aaron Joiner have been selected to join the Bouchet Graduate Honor Society.
October 2016: Laura’s TRAPPII paper has been accepted for publication in the The Journal of Cell Biology!
October 2016: Several members of the Fromme Lab (Aaron, Carolyn, Maggie, and Steve) are involved in local outreach to elementary schools through their work with GRASSHOPR.
September 2016: Laura Thomas won a poster award at the FASEB GTPase meeting
August 2016: Laura Thomas was awarded the George P. Hess Travel Award. Congratulations, Laura!
July 2016: Aaron Joiner attended Cornell’s Future Professors Institute.
June 2016: Undergraduate student Solveig van der Vegt has been selected as a Hunter R. Rawlings III Cornell Presidential Scholar. Congratulations, Solveig!
April 2016: Steve Halaby goes to Washington!
April 2016: Maggie Gustafson was awarded the Harry and Samuel Mann Outstanding Graduate Student Award. Congratulations, Maggie!
April 2016: Chris was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship for his upcoming sabbatical in Cambridge, UK.
March 2016: Cornell Chronicle article describing the efforts of Aaron and Steve as Graduate Student Ambassadors.
January 2016: Brian’s Sec7 structure paper has been accepted for publication in eLife!
December 2015: Chris has been selected as a Visiting Fellow at Clare Hall, Cambridge for his sabbatical in 2016.
September 2015: Steve Halaby passed his “A” exam!
July 2015: Chris and Brian attended the Molecular Membrane Gordon Conference to present a talk and a poster.
July 2015: Laura Thomas passed her “A” exam!
June 2015: Graduate student Aaron Joiner has joined the Fromme Lab. Welcome, Aaron!
May 2015: Chris Fromme is promoted to Associate Professor.
May 2015: Former graduate student Jon Paczkowski is awarded a Jane Coffin Childs postdoctoral fellowship.
May 2015: Former graduate student Jon Paczkowski is awarded the LPS Inc., “Best Paper” award.
April 2015: Graduate student Laura Thomas earns honorable mention in the NSF graduate research fellowship competition.
February 2015: Graduate student Maggie Gustafson is awarded the George P. Hess Travel Award.