2019201820172016 04/10 2019 Damaris presents at EMBO WORKSHOP EMERGING CONCEPTS OF THE NEURONAL CYTOSKELETON 04/05 2019 Blake presents at CBP annual departmental retreat 02/19 2019 Damaris awarded American Diabetes Association Junior Faculty Development Grant 12/18 2018 Sam wins Honorable Mention in the Undergraduate Poster Competition at ASCB! Congrats Sam! 07/31 2018 Check out our paper “A Mutation in the Borcs7 Subunit of the Lysosome Regulatory BORC Complex Results in Motor Deficits and Dystrophic Axonopathy in Mice” published in Cell Reports in collaboration with Bev Koller’s lab and others at UNC 06/15 2018 Damaris presents at the Gordon Conference “Membrane Transport Proteins” (June 15, 2018) 04/15 2018 Edgar is accepted into the SMART program, which will support his summer research. Congratulations Edgar! (April 15, 2018) 04/06 2018 Damaris presents at the 7th Ataxia Investigators Meeting (April 6, 2017) 02/01 2018 Damaris wins a Junior Faculty Development Award. Congratulations Damaris! 01/04 2018 Damaris receives Young Investigator Award for Spinocerebellar Ataxia Research from the National Ataxia Foundation. Congratulations Damaris! 11/13 2017 Check out the latest paper from the lab “Cell-autonomous adiposity through increased cell surface GLUT4 due to ankyrin-B deficiency” published ahead of print in PNAS (November 13, 2017) 08/22 2017 Edgar Gaspar-Ojeda joins the lab. Welcome Edgar! (August 22, 2017) 08/21 2017 Bjorn Tam joins the lab. Welcome Bjorn! (August 21, 2017) 08/01 2017 Hancheng Mao joins the lab. Welcome Hancheng! (August 1, 2017) 07/17 2017 Damaris presents at the FASEB conference “Glucose Transport: Gateway to Metabolic Systems Biology” (July 17, 2017) 07/06 2017 Chris Gabriel joins the lab. Welcome Chris! (July 6, 2017) 06/10 2017 Damaris presents at the American Diabetes Association 77th Scientific Sessions (June 10, 2017) 05/21 2017 The Lorenzo lab welcomes SMART program student Liset. Welcome Liset! (May 21, 2017) 05/17 2017 Damaris presents at SACNAS Lunch ‘N’ Learn Roundtable. (May 17, 2017) 04/24 2017 Damaris presents at Experimental Biology 2017 Meeting. (April 24, 2017) 04/17 2017 Sam wins the highly competitive SURF fellowship to support her summer research at the Lorenzo Lab! Congratulations Samantha! (April 17, 2017) 04/05 2017 Damaris gives seminar at the Nutrition Research Institute. (April 5, 2017) 02/25 2017 The Lorenzo Lab is awarded the NORC Pilot & Feasibility Program grant. (Feb 25, 2017) 01/24 2017 Hafsa joins the lab. Welcome Hafsa! (Jan 24, 2017) 01/22 2017 Damaris is awarded the Early Career Investigator Travel Award to present at the Keystone Symposium – Diabetes (Jan 22, 2017) 01/09 2017 The Lorenzo Lab welcomes Brittany, who will spend the spring in the lab doing Bio 395 research (Jan 9, 2017) 12/05 2016 Our lab is finally fully functional and experiments are underway! (Dec 5, 2016) 12/03 2016 Damaris receives ASCB Junior Faculty travel award to present at ASCB Annual Meeting. (Dec 3, 2016) 11/21 2016 Samantha joins the lab. Welcome Samantha! (Nov 21, 2016). 11/14 2016 Damaris presents at Neuroscience 2016 (Nov 14, 2016) 10/08 2016 Damaris coauthors paper published in eLife. (Oct 8, 2016) 10/01 2016 Damaris selected as a UNC’s School of Medicine’s Simmons Scholars. (Oct, 2016) 09/06 2016 Damaris joins CBP. (Sept 6, 2016)
