News and achievements
Congratulations to Margeaux Shelley and Rita Ononiwu for completing their 1st rotation in the Arndt Lab.
October 30, 2024
Sanchirmaa Namjilsuren wins the Best Poster Prize at the ASBMB Transcription meeting. Congratulations!
September 29, 2024
The Arndt lab presents at the ASBMB "Transcriptional regulation by chromatin and RNA polymerase" Meeting in Alexandria, Va.
Karen (talk) , Sanchirmaa Namjilsuren (poster) and Tasniem Fetian (Poster)
September 26-29, 2024
New paper from the Arndt Lab is out. Congratulations, Alex!
September 24, 2024
Congratulations to Alex Francette for a successful thesis defense!
September 10, 2024
Karen Arndt is awarded the PittBioSci Departmental Impact Award
April 18, 2024
Karen Arndt presents a seminar at Stony Brook University
April 4, 2024
Alex Francette presents a talk at the Steel City Chromatin Club
March 28, 2024
Tasniem Fetian presents a talk at the Pitt Grad Expo
March 28, 2024
Tasniem Fetian is awarded the Leo B. and Teresa Y. Wegemer Endowed STEM Fellowship for the academic year 2024/25
March 27, 2024
Tasniem Fetian presents a talk at the GSA TAGC24 meeting in Washington, DC.
March 9, 2024
Sanchirmaa Namjilsuren presents a talk in the Hillman Cancer Center Genome Stability Group Work-In-Progress series
February 5, 2024
Alex Francette wins travel award and presents at ABRCMS in Phoenix, AZ
November 15, 2023
The Arndt lab wins the Best Poster award at the Annual PittBioSci departmental retreat
October 20, 2023
Karen Arndt speaks at the Cold Spring Harbor Mechanisms of Eukaryotic Transcription meeting
August 29, 2023
Tasniem Fetian is awarded the Mary P. Edmonds Award for the publication of an outstanding research paper by a graduate student
August 24, 2023
Aakash Grover is awarded the Ivy McManus Award for Academic Excellence in First Year of Graduate Study
August 24, 2023
The Arndt lab presents at the Penn State's 39th Summer Symposium on Chromatin and Gene Regulation in State College, PA.
Alex Francette (talk), Sarah Tripplehorn (poster), Sanchirmaa Namjilsuren (poster), Tasniem Fetian (Poster)
August 6-9, 2023
Sarah Tripplehorn wins a travel award to attend Penn State's 39th Summer Symposium on Chromatin and Gene Regulation
July 2023
Alex Francette is awarded the Provost’s Dissertation Year Fellowship for Historically Underrepresented Doctoral Students for the Academic year 2023-2024
Tasniem Fetian presents a talk at the Hillman Cancer Center Genome Stability Program Retreat
June 20, 2023
Karen Arndt speaks at the Steel City Chromatin Club
May 25, 2023
Tasniem Fetian presents a talk at the Hillman Cancer Center Genome Stability Group Work-In-Progress seminar series
May 3, 2023
Tasniem Fetian is awarded the Andrew P. Mellon pre-doctoral fellowship for the academic year 2023-2024
March 5, 2023
The Arndt lab presents at PittGene: Annual Pitt Genetics Retreat at the University of Pittsburgh.
Sarah Tripplehorn (talk), Alex Francette (poster), Sanchirmaa Namjilsuren (poster), Tasniem Fetian (Poster)
November 30, 2022
Alex Francette presents at the Fragile Nucleosome virtual seminar series
October 26, 2022
Alex Francette and Tasniem Fetian present posters at the ASBMB Transcriptional regulation: Chromatin and RNA polymerase II in Snowbird, UT.
September 29 – October 2, 2022
Sarah Tripplehorn and Sanchirmaa Namjilsuren present posters at the GSA Yeast Meeting in Los Angeles, CA.
August 17–21, 2022
Alex Francette is awarded the Carl Storm Underrepresented Minority Fellowship to attend the Gordon Research Conference
May, 2022
Alex Francette wins the Outstanding Poster Presentation award at Pitt Grad Expo
March 18th, 2022
Sanchirmaa Namjilsuren is awarded the Andrew P. Mellon pre-doctoral fellowship for the academic year 2022-2023
April 12, 2022
Tasniem Fetian is awarded the Ivy McManus Award for Academic Excellence in First Year of Graduate Study
August, 2021
Sarah Tripplehorn wins the Outstanding Poster Presentation award at Pitt Grad Expo
April 12, 2021
Sanchirmaa Namjilsuren is awarded the Ivy McManus Award for Academic Excellence in First
Year of Graduate Study
August, 2020
Sarah Tripplehorn is awarded the NIH T32 Research Grant for the academic year 2020/2021
October 12, 2020
Alex Francette is awarded the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship to support the next three years of his graduate career
April 21, 2020
Alex Francette is awarded the Ivy McManus Award for Academic Excellence in First Year of Graduate Study
July, 2019
Alex Francette is awarded the K. Leroy Irvis Fellowship for the academic year 2018-2019