Updates from the lab
March 2026
Maddie presents her project at the UVA Center for RNA Science & Medicine 2026 Retreat and wins best poster award! Congrats Maddie!
Saketh is awarded a Harrison Fellowship from UVA to work in the lab over the summer! Congrats Saketh!
Sidra presents her work on CBASS pathways at UVA Infectious Disease Research Day!
Uday’s postdoc work on 2′,3′-cGAMP signaling in CBASS immunity is published online in Cell Host & Microbe! https://www.cell.com/cell-host-microbe/fulltext/S1931-3128(26)00091-0
February 2026
Emily Kairalla is accepted into the UVA BIMS program for graduate school and will pursue her PhD in our lab! Congratulations Emily!
Madison Bendele (UVA BIMS program) joins the lab for her PhD! Welcome Maddie!
December 2025
Second annual Dremel-Spencer-Tak-Wang Labs joint holiday party!
October 2025
Keisha Roldan Baez and Alex Mendez join the lab for rotations!
Samuel Fidler joins the lab as an undergraduate researcher!
En Hsiao officially joins the lab as an undergraduate researcher!
August 2025
Madison Bendele (UVA BIMS) joins the lab for a rotation!
July 2025
Emily Kairalla joins the lab as a research technician!
March 2025
Sidra Khan PhD joins the lab for her postdoc! Welcome Sidra!
January 2025
Alex Webb (UVA BIMS Graduate Program) joins the lab for a rotation!
Grace Yoo joins the lab as an undergraduate researcher!
December 2024
First annual joint lab holiday party with Dremel, Spencer, Tak and Wang labs!
Nate Blackwell joins the lab as a research technician!
November 2024
Nitish Kannan and Saketh Alluri join the lab as undergraduate researchers!
September 2024
En Hsiao joins the lab as a remote research volunteer!
20240901 - The Tak lab opens at UVA!
