2025
2025-12-02: Check out Isha’s paper on how protective ApoE variants support neuronal function https://www.cell.com/neuron/abstract/S0896-6273(25)00847-5
2025-11-04: Congrats to Isha for successfuly defending her PhD!
2025-09-17: Check out Rubio’s paper on the regulation of lipid metabolism in astrocytes by glutamate https://doi.org/10.1242/jcs.263983
2025-09-15: Julie won best talk at the Lipids in Brain Disease Symposium in Hasselt Belgium!
2025-09-01: Julie was awarded a postdoctoral fellowship from the Parkinson’s Association of Alberta
2025-09-01: Ju-Young was awarded a WCHRI Graduate Studentship
2025-05-01: Kennedi was awarded a CGS-M from CIHR
2025-05-01: Iset was awarded the NSERC Undergraduate Student Research Award
2025-02-10: Clare Low visits us from the Florey Institute in Australia
2024
2024-11-07: Ehlam won a poster award at the FoMD undergraduate summer student research day!
2025-09-01: The lab welcomes back Ju-Young who is starting her MSc in Physiology.
2024-08-27: Check out Lindsey’s paper from the Bellen lab https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39187706/
2024-05-11: Congratulations to Rubio for successfully passing your MSc Defense!
2024-05-23: Congratulations Nathanael for passing your candidacy exam!
2024-05-10: Isha won 3rd place for Best Talk at the Department of Physiology Research Day
2024-05-01: The lab welcomes two new undergraduate students; Iset Ilarraza and Ehlam Iftikhar. Both were awarded the Alberta Innovates Summer Research Studentship.
2024-05-01: The lab welcomes back Kennedi Chik who is starting his MSc in Physiology.
2024-04-15: The lab welcomes Dr. Claudia Acevedo-Morantes to help with our iPSC lines.
2024-02-22: Check out Julie and Isha’s review on neuronal ferroptosis https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tcb.2024.01.010
2024-02-12: Ju-Young won 2nd place for Best Undergraduate Poster at the Department of Cell Biology Research Day
2024-01-10: Maria was interviewed by Journal of Cell Science as a Cell Scientist to Watch! https://doi.org/10.1242/jcs.261791
2023
2023-12-18: Isha won the Med Star Graduate Student Award from the FoMD for her paper on lysosomal exocytosis
2023-11-24: Isha won a Izaak Walton Killam Memorial Scholarship.
2023-07-09: Rubio won a WCHRI Graduate Studentship
2023-05-01: Rubio won 2nd place for Best Poster at the Department of Physiology Research Day
2023-05-01: Isha won the Richard Stein Manuscript Award, for the best paper first-authored by a graduate student in the Department of Physiology
2023-05-01: Ju-Young was awarded the Alberta Innovates Summer Research Studentship
2023-05-01: Jeremy was awarded the NSERC Undergraduate Student Research Award
2023-05-01: The lab welcomes two new undergraduate students; Ceili Green and Jeremy Wong
2023-04-10: Isha’s paper on autolysosomal exocytosis is out in the Journal of Cell Biology https://doi.org/10.1083/jcb.202207130
2023-03-23: Check out Rubio’s comment on astrocytic OxPhos in Nature Metabolism: https://doi.org/10.1038/s42255-023-00755-5
2023-02-13: Isha passed her candidacy exam!
2022
2022-12-15: Rubio was awarded the 75th Anniversary Award and the Delnor Award given to the top applicant in the competition!
2022-12-15: Nathanael was awarded the 75th Anniversary Award
2022-12-05: Isha was selected to give a talk at ASCB
2022-11-02: Rubio passed his candidacy exam!
2022-09-01: Maria is awarded a Tier 2 Canada Research Chair
2022-06-23: Julie was awarded an EMBO Postdoctoral Fellowship
2022-05-06: Isha won best talk at the Physiology Research Day
2022-05-01: The lab welcomes two new undergraduate students; Kennedi Chik and Ju-Young Bae
2022-04-29: Ju-Young was awarded the Medicine Class of 1986 Research Studentship
2022-04-15: Isha was awarded a CGS-D from CIHR
2022-04-01: Kennedi was awarded the Undergraduate Research Initiative Summer student award.
2022-04-01: Wendy was awarded the NSERC Undergraduate Student Research Award
2022-02-15: Julie was awarded the Dr. Rowland and Muriel Haryett Neuroscience Fellowship!
2022-02-24: Isha won best PhD talk at the Cell Biology Research Day.
2022-02-01: The lab welcomes Dr. Julie Jacquemyn, our new postdoctoral fellow.
2022-01-15: The newest addition to the Ioannou Lab: a shiny new Zeiss LSM900 with AiryScan2!
2021
2021-12-28: Check out the Bellen lab’s new paper on how AD-risk genes affect glial LD formation. https://pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.2112095118
2021-11-05: Rubio won Best PhD Poster at WCHRI Research Day.
2021-06-21: Check out our new review on ‘Lipid Droplets in the Nervous System’ in JCB https://doi.org/10.1083/jcb.202102136
2021-04-01: Wendy was awarded an NSERC Undergraduate Student Research Award!
2021-02-16: Maria is selected as a 2021 Sloan Research Fellow in Neuroscience https://www.ualberta.ca/folio/2021/02/u-of-a-neuroscientist-recognized-with-prestigious-sloan-research-fellowship.html
2021-01-21: Read Maria’s contribution to JCB’s People & Ideas article on setting up a research lab during the pandemic https://doi.org/10.1083/jcb.202012131
2020
2020-10-27: Isha was awarded a SynAD ADRD Trainee Grant!
2020-07-20: Check out or new paper describing microdomains inside extracellular vesicles https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-68436-x
2020-07-01: The lab welcomes Dr. Jinlan Chang, our new Research Associate!
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