12/14/2025: Rishi is awarded the American Heart Association Postdoctoral Fellowship!
12/04/2025: Wanjing is awarded the American Heart Association Predoctoral Fellowship!
11/10/2025: Rishi is awarded the prestigious Damon Runyon Postdoctoral Research Fellowship!
9/15/2025: Rishi is awarded the Michigan Pioneer Postdoctoral Fellowship!
6/12/2025: Ash is awarded funding from the Chemistry Biology Interface Training Program!
5/27/2025: Sharon defends her thesis!
4/28/2025: Daytan is awarded high honors on her thesis!
4/22/2025: Our paper outlining the function and mechanism of CCSer2 is published in JCB!
4/1/2025: Ash joins the lab!
2/23/2025: Our paper exploring dynein activation kinetics is published in JBC!
10/1/2024: Aico and Cameron join the lab!
9/15/2024: Rishi joins the lab!
6/24/2024: Saffron defends her thesis!
6/10/2024: Juliana leaves for her AbbVie Internship!
5/22/2024: Morgan was interviewed by NIH Biomedical Beat Blog. Check it out here!
4/1/2024: Daytan is awarded an Honors Summer Fellows award!
12/11/2023: Wanjing is awarded a Rackham Graduate Student Research Grant!
10/1/2023: Reagan joins the lab!
8/23/2023: Sharon is awarded the Lee Murphy Memorial Prize for the Biochem student with a most significant paper!
8/15/2023: Juliana is awarded funding from the Cellular Biotechnology Training Grant!
6/12/2023: Sharon leaves for her AbbVie Internship!
5/05/2023: Daytan receives a scholarship from the Program in Biology!
5/01/2023: Wanjing joins the lab!
4/21/2023: Our paper on how Ndel1 regulates dynein activation is published in JBC!
3/27/2023: Our collaborative work with the Shibuya lab on NuMA function during meiosis is published in Nature Communications.
1/10/2023: Aravintha is awarded a Rackham Graduate Student Research Grant!
9/6/2022: Saffron joins the lab!
9/1/2022: Our lab is awarded an R35 award from NIGMS to study mechanisms of dynein regulation!
6/15/2022: Our work with the Nandakumar and Shibuya labs on KASH5 is published in eLife.
4/27/2022: Daytan receives a scholarship from the Program in Biology!
4/12/2022: Our review on Nde1 and Ndel1 is published!
4/08/2022: Aravintha joins the lab!
2/15/2022: Our lab is awarded an NSF-CAREER award to study how different activating adaptors promote diverse dynein activity!
3/25/2021: Rita is awarded a Horizons Summer Research Internship from MCDB!!
3/18/2021: Juliana joins the lab!
3/15/2021: John joins the lab as a Staff Scientist!
7/07/2020: Sharon is awarded a Rackham Graduate Student Research Grant!!
4/01/2020: Sharon joins the lab!
1/1/2020: DeSantis Lab goes live at the University of Michigan in the Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology department!