The last of the Vienna crew is a newly minted Ph.D. – congrats Ariane!
Dr. (!!!) Ariane Mandlbauer, seen here in her graduation hat made with love (if not necessarily artistic talent) by her labmates, gave her Ph.D. seminar earlier this month. She shared the impressive work she’s done investigating the miRNA layer of regulation in mammalian cells. Watch out for her next paper on Argonautes!
Megan and Ozzy received their white (lab) coats
Last Friday, Megan and Ozzy were officially “coated” as PhD candidates since they passed their doctoral board exam last November! Luisa came to support.
The entire Cochella Lab took a field trip for the NYC RNA Symposium
And everyone presented a poster (even Luisa)! We had a great time at Rockefeller sharing our enthusiasm for RNA with our NY (and surrounding area) colleagues.
New Cochella lab paper out in Science Advances!
The lab’s latest story on the miR-51 family in worms was published earlier this month. Check it out here. Congratulations to Emilio on his beautiful thesis work and to all the authors!
Luisa and Ariane presented at RNATx2025, and a talented artist made this graphical recording of Luisa’s talk
RNATx2025 is a great annual conference organized by the RNA Therapeutics Institute at UMass Chan (https://www.rnatherapeutics.org/). In addition to all the ideas and excitement about RNA that Luisa and Ariane took away from this meeting, Ashton Rodenhiser, a graphic artist in Canada, drew an amazing graphical recording of Luisa’s miRNA talk. Check out Ashton’s company […]
The Cochella Lab will be at the 2025 international worm meeting
See you all there! Luisa will be giving a talk during the plenary on Sunday afternoon, and we hope you will visit our student posters on Sunday evening, listed below: Orazio (Ozzy) Bagno: 291A Eric Cormack: 304A Megan Butler: 459A Lo-Yu Chang: 461A
PhD student Megan Butler is awarded the NSF GRFP!
Congrats to Megan on her GRFP! This award will support her thesis work investigating how transcription factors and chromatin collaborate to repress a particular miRNA during worm development.
The newest PhD from the Cochella lab: Dr. Emilio Santillán
After many years of hard work, a move across the Atlantic Ocean, and persistence, Emilio has earned his PhD! Stay tuned for his paper, which has become a beautiful functional interrogation of a miRNA.
Congrats to PhD candidates Ozzy and Megan!
2nd year BCMB students Ozzy and Megan have officially passed their qualifying exams and are now PhD candidates!
Luisa is now an Associate Professor in MBG!
Congratulations to Dr. Luisa Cochella for being promoted to Associate Professor as of July 2024! Check out the awesome publications from the lab so far this year: Ariane’s first-author Mime-seq 2.0: a method to sequence microRNAs from specific mouse cell types in The EMBO Journal, and a collaboration with Clemens Plaschka, Mechanism for the initiation […]