Disease Molecular Biology
and Epigenetics Laboratory

23 December 2024

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Shela Marie L. Algodon (currently in Lubeck) is a co-author of the paper entitled "Clinicodemographic and Genetic Modifier Correlation in an X-Linked Dystonia-Parkinsonism Cohort from Mindanao" published in the journal MOVEMENT DISORDERS CLINICAL PRACTICE.

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17 December 2024

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Kimi Gattoc and Max Faminiano successfully defended their Master's theses.

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28 November 2024

 

RJ Francisco and Tim Lee were declared first and second place winners (respectively) of YOUTH SCIENCE FORUM 2024 during the 51st Annual Convention of the Philippine Society of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology held at The Marison Hotel, Legazpi City, Albay. As part of their prize, they were awarded a 2-month summer internship in Academia Sinica,Taiwan.

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19 November 2024

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Chuck Bataclan successfully defended his PhD thesis at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland.

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10 November 2024

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Andrea Salvador (currently a postdoc at the University of Pennsylvania) is a co-author of the paper entitled "Endogenous self-peptides guard immune privilege of the central nervous system" published recently in NATURE

 

03 November 2024

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Kenneth Roquid (currently finishing his PhD at the Max Planck Institute for Heart and Lung Research in Bad Nauheim, Germany)  is second author of the paper entitled "SPMs exert anti-inflammatory and pro-resolving effects through positive allosteric modulation of the prostaglandin EP4 receptor" published in PNAS.

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Shela Marie L. Algodon (currently finishing her PhD at the University of Lubeck in Germany) is a co-author of the paper entitled "Clinicodemographic and Genetic Modifier Correlation in an X-Linked Dystonia-Parkinsonism Cohort from Mindanao" published in the journal Mov Disord Clin Pract.

 

26 October 2024

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Dan Mirador and RJ Francisco bagged 2 of the 3 Best Poster Presentation Awards at the recently concluded 7th International and 15th National Convention of the Philippine Society for Cell Biology. Dan also emerged as one of the 3 winners of the Rapid Fire Oral Presentations. Kim Cabral won first place in the Photo / Microscopy Contest for her work entitled "Neuro-concinnity".

 

 

12 October 2024

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Our latest paper entitled "Atypical Exon 2/3 Mutants G48C, Q43K, and E37K Present Oncogenic Phenotypes Distinct from Characterized NRAS Variants" is now published online in the journal CELLS.

 

05 October 2024

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Arman Ghodsinia, currently doing his PhD at the University of Cambridge, is a co-author of the paper entitled "Novel immunotherapeutics against LGR5 to target multiple cancer types" published recently in EMBO Mol Med. 

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08 September 2024

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Chuck Bataclan (University of Lausanne) is a co-author of the paper entitled Inducible CXCL12/CXCR4–dependent extramedullary hematopoietic niches in the adrenal gland published in the journal BLOOD.

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)2 August 2024

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Josh Malapit successfully defended his PhD thesis at the German Cancer Research Center / University of Heidelberg.

 

16 July 2024

 

Josh Danac (University of Cambridge) is first author of the paper entitled “Competition between two HUSH complexes orchestrates the immune response to retroelement invasion” published in MOLECULAR CELL. 

Martin Qui (Duke-NUS Medical School) is first author of the article entitled “T cell hybrid immunity against SARS-CoV-2 in children: a longitudinal study" published in eBIOMEDICINE (part of The Lancet Discovery Science). 

Yana Manongdo-Bataclan (Institute for Research in Biomedicine, Switzerland) is first author of the paper entitled “Crosstalk between Regnase-1 and -3 shapes mast cell survival and cytokine expression” published in LIFE SCIENCE ALLIANCE (a joint publication of EMBO Press, Rockefeller University Press, and Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press). 

Carmela Cruz (International Max Planck Research School for Molecular Biology, Germany) is co-author of the paper “Generation of marmoset primordial germ cell–like cells under chemically defined conditions” published in LIFE SCIENCE ALLIANCE. 

Kenneth Roquid (Max Planck Institute for Heart and Lung Research, Germany) is co-author of the paper entitled “Loss of Smooth Muscle Tenascin-X Inhibits Vascular Remodeling Through Increased TGF-β Signaling” published in ARTERIOSCLEROSIS, THROMBOSIS, AND VASCULAR BIOLOGY. 

Kent Canlas (Chung-Ang University, South Korea) is first author of the review entitled “Applications of Biomolecular Nanostructures for Anti-Angiogenic Theranostics” published in INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF NANOMEDICINE. 
 

13 May 2024

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Jolo Ferrer is a co-author of the paper entitled "Genome organization around nuclear speckles drives mRNA splicing efficiency" published recently in NATURE. Jolo is currently in Caltech doing his PhD. 

 

10 April 2024

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Lorenz Chua is co-first author of the paper entitled "Proteomic and transcriptomic profiling of brainstem, cerebellum and olfactory tissues in early- and late-phase COVID-19" published recently in NATURE NEUROSCIENCE. 

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28 March 2024

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Kimi Gattoc was offered a place in the Taiwan International Internship Program. She will be in Academia Sinica from June to July 2024. 

 

20 March 2024

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Aileen Uy was offered a PhD scholarship at the German Cancer Research Center (Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum, DKFZ) in Heidelberg.

 

Dr. Lorenz Chua was selected for a fellowship under the Medical Scientist Pilot Program of the Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin.

 

Joseph Neos Cruz was awarded the highly competitive Boehringer Ingelheim Fonds PhD fellowship in Vienna.

 

Mickai Leaño was chosen for the 2024 Taiwan International Internship Program (July-August Batch).

 

29 February 2024

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Shela Algodon is a co-author of the paper entitled "Neuroenergetic Changes in Patients with X-Linked Dystonia-Parkinsonism and Female Carriers" published in the journal MOVEMENT DISORDERS CLINICAL PRACTICE.

 

17 February 2024

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Andrei David was offered an MSc-PhD scholarship at the International Max Planck Research School for Molecular Biology in Goettingen, Germany, and will move there in September.

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Marian Abigail Manongdo-Bataclan is co-first author of the article entitled "The mRNA methyltransferase Mettl3 modulates cytokine mRNA stability and limits functional responses in mast cells" published in NATURE COMMUNICATIONS. Yana recently finished her PhD at IRB, ETH Zurich. 

 

05 February 2024

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Dr. Rey Garcia was chosen as the 2023 Achievement Awardee of the National Research Council of the Philippines-Division of Medical Sciences.

 

04 February 2024

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Kim Quililan co-first author of the paper "In vitro reconstitution of chromatin domains shows a role for nucleosome positioning in 3D genome organization" published in NATURE GENETICS. Kim is currently doing her PhD at the Francis Crick Institute in London. 

 

Nori Galang is first author of the paper entitled "Vesicular Release and Uptake of Circular LSD1-RNAs from Non-Cancer and Cancer Lung Cells" published recently in the International Journal for Molecular Sciences. Nori is currently doing her PhD at Radboud University in The Netherlands. 

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Kenneth Roquid is co-author of the paper "Large chemokine binding spectrum of human and mouse atypical chemokine receptor GPR182 (ACKR5)" published in Frontiers ni Pharmacology. Kenneth is finishing  up his PhD at the Max Planck Institute for Heart and Lung Research in Germany.

 

02 February 2024

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Martin Qui successfully defended his PhD thesis (as part of the MD-PhD program) at the Duke-NUS Medical School in Singapore. 

 

18 January 2024

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Allen de Borja successfully defended his Master's thesis entitled "Functional characterization of the non-canonical KRAS mutants K117I, K117N, A146T, E168K, and K172T identified in Filipino young-onset colorectal cancer patients".