Cuervo Lab Great News to celebrate!!! 

Esperanza Arias received the prestigious Fulbright Postdoctoral Research Grant  to study the relation between autophagic dysfunction and the stress response in aging. 

  Susmita Kaushik again on the spot light!! Part of her Thesis work has been published in Nature and it received considerable attention from the scientific community and different press media (including a great summary in the Spanish press). This is a collaborative study with Dr. Rajat Singh from the group of Dr. Mark J. Czaja also at Einstein.  

  Susmita Kaushik is in a roll!! She has received the Weintraub award for graduate students. This is a very competitive award that is given to 12 outstanding graduate students in the whole country!! She will participate in a two day scientific symposium at the Hutchinson Center's Robert W. Day Campus, where she will present her thesis work. The students were selected on the basis of quality, originality  and significance of their work. She obviously has it all! 

  Susmita Kaushik received one of the four 2009 Julius Marmur Research Award for her research work. She will present her work at the 13th Annual Julius Marmur Symposium on March 23, 2009. Don't miss it!. 

Urmi Bandyopadhyay defended her thesis on November 3, 2008. She is from now on Dr. Bandyopadhyay!! Our third Ph from the lab!

  Susmita Kaushik has bee nominated co-chair of the first Gordon Research Seminar in Biology of Aging, that will take place in Le Diablerets, Switzerland in September 2009. Susmita is responsible for the selection of speakers, organization of discussions and for fund raising to put together the best possible program. The symposium allow students that intend to participate in the Gordon Conference to present their work in a smaller forum and receive direct feedback from the leaders in the field, and will provide them the necessary background to promote their active participation in the Conference. 

Judy Zhang  thesis work was published in Nature Medicine and it received considerable attention from the scientific community and different press media  (do not miss the video from Science Central!)

Esther Wang received a Postdoctoral Fellowship from the Hereditary Disease Foundation to elucidate the role of different ubiquitin linkages in huntingtin biology

Judy Zhang defended her thesis on March 17, 2008. She is from now on Dr. Zhang!! Our second Ph from the lab!

  Ashish Massey defended his thesis on December 18, 2007. He is from now on Dr. Massey!! Our first Ph from the lab!

  Esther Wang received a Postdoctoral Travel Award from the Belfer Institute for Advanced Studies to attend the 2008 GRC on Autophagy in Stress, Development & Disease, where she will present her work on the role of macroautophagy in clearance of different  types of protein aggregates

  Esther Wang received a Parkinson's Disease Foundation Postdoctoral Research Fellowship Award, to elucidate the role of different    types of ubiquitin linkage on the degradation of a-synuclein by autophagy

  Marta Martinez-Vicente received an America Liver Foundation Postdoctoral Research Fellowship Award, to continue her exciting studies on the regulation of Chaperone-mediated autophagy in liver.

  Ashish Massey received one of the three  2007 Julius Marmur Research Award for his research work. He will present his work at the 11th Annual Julius Marmur Symposium on Thursday, March 29, 2007. Don't miss it!.

  Susmita Kaushik received the 2006 Walter R. Nicolai Award for her poster  presented at the 35th annual meeting of the American Aging Association.

   Cong Zhang, received the 2nd Prize for her poster  presented at the 35th annual meeting of the American Aging Association.

 Susmita Kaushik received the 1st Prize for her oral presentation during the satellite student symposium at the 35th annual meeting of the American Aging Association.

  Ashish Massey's  poster was selected for oral presentation at the Gordon Research Conference on the Biology of Aging.

  Marta Martinez-Vicente presented her work as oral communication at the World Parkinson's Meeting in Washington, DC.

  Ashish Massey   presented his work as oral communication at the Gordon Research Conference on Autophagy in Stress, Disease and Aging.