June 2024 - Group receives renewal funding from the Department of Energy
Our work on electron transfer enzymes is currently funded by a grant from the DOE Office of Basic Energy Sciences. We were awarded another cycle of renewal support to continue our work. Congratulations to the team!!!! |
May 2023 - Jaigeeth is the recipient of the Emerging Scientist Award from EMGS.
Jaigeeth Deveryshetty was awarded the "Emerging Scientist Award" from the Environmental Mutagenesis and Genomics Society for his work on the structural studies of Rad52 and homologous recombination. CONGRATULATIONS! He was presented with the recognition at the Midwest DNA Repair Conference in Iowa. |
July 2022 - Sahiti receives a prestigious F99/K00 grant from NCI.
Congratulations to Sahiti Kuppa on receiving a five year F99/K00 grant from the National Cancer Institute. The grant supports her final year of graduate studies and SLU and four years of postdoctoral training. We are super excited!!!!!! Article about her award at SLU: https://www.slu.edu/news/2022/october/sahiti-kuppa-award.php |
March 2022 - Antony Lab welcomes a new team member.
Dr. Rajnandani Kashyap has joined the group as a new postdoctoral fellow. She will be working on the DOE-funded projects related to oxidoreductases. Noah Englander has joined our team as a research technician. Noah will be assisting with the protein purification needs. |
October 2021 - Undergrad wins poster award at conference
Congratulations to Marisa Sadauskas on winning the Best Poster Award at the recent Midwest Enzyme Chemistry Conference (MECC 2021). Marisa's poster was titled "Combinatorial Phosphocodes Dictate Functional Specificity in Replication Protein A (RPA)". Congratulations!! |
January 2021 - New team members
We welcome Dr. Rahul Chadda (Sr. Scientist) and Dr. Vikas Kaushik (Research Associate) to the group. Rahul comes to the group from Washington University in St. Louis and is an expert in single-molecule TIRF imaging. Kaushik arrives to our lab from India will be working on RNA binding dynamics of multi-subunit RNA binding proteins. Welcome! |
April 2020 - Nilisha wins the Scholl Award.
Nilisha has been awarded the 2020 Scholl Award from Marquette University which recognizes her publication accomplishments as a graduate student in the Department of Biological Sciences. Congratulations!! This completes her sweep of all the research-related awards in graduate school. Way to go!! |
January 2020 - Siteman Cancer Center Membership
The Antony group is now officially a member of the Siteman Cancer Center at Washington University School of Medicine. Its wonderful to be a part of the network. Our ongoing work will be a part of the Breast Cancer Research Program Initiatives. We are looking forward to the collaborative work. |
June 2019 - Students presented posters and a talk at the Gordon Research Conference in Maine.
Graduate students Nilisha Pokhrel and Sahiti Kuppa along with our undergraduate student Emma Tillison presented posters at the GRC conference. Nilisha also chaired a session at the GRS and gave a talk at the conference. |
May 2019 - Nilisha wins a "Best Talk" award at the Midwest DNA Repair Conference.
Nilisha Pokhrel and Sahiti Kuppa presented posters and Nilisha gave a talk at MDRC held at Washington University in Saint Louis. Nilisha won an award for "Best Talk". Congratulations...... Interesting fact: Her PI gave his first formal conference talk at the very same auditorium in 2008. |
February 2019 - Elliot has been awarded the Arthur J. Schmitt Leadership Fellowship for 2019-20
Congratulations, and well deserved. More information about this program can be found here: https://www.marquette.edu/grad/finaid-schmitt.php |
February 2019 - Emma received the 2019-2020 American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) Undergraduate Scholar Award.
The award fully supports Emma to attend and present her work at two consecutive annual AACR national meetings at Atlanta (2019) and San Deigo (2020). Well deserved and congratulations!! |
January 2019 - New R01 Grant Awarded
Our lab has received a new R01 grant from the National Institutes of Health R01GM130746. "Mechanisms of DNA hand-off during lesion repair in BER and NER", NIGMS and NIEHS. Read about the work: CLICK HERE Congrats to the team ......... |
April 2018 - Emma wins best talk award at MUBRC.
Emma Tillison, an undergraduate researcher in our laboratory was awarded the best talk award at the Milwaukee-area Undergradaute Biological Research Conference held at Wisconsin Lutheran College last weekend. Her talk was titled "Biophysical Insights into Rad52 Mediator Functions" Well done Emma. Congratulations!! |
June 2017 - Lab Celebrations
The lab celebrated various milestones. Nilisha and Elliot passed their qualifying exams and are officially 'candidates' towards their PhD. Dr. Origanti has secured her independent tenure track position at Marquette and will be starting her own research group this Fall. Nilisha's paper has been accepted for publication. |
November 2016 - Press Release on our work.
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September 2014
Edwin was invited to give a talk at Wesleyan University, Middletown CT during the 15th Annual Wesleyan Molecular Biophysics Program on Sept 18th at the Wadsworth Mansion in Middletown CT. Click here for a press release from the event. |