December 2024: May successfully defended her thesis. Congrats Dr. Liu!
November 2024: Upasna gave a talk and May presented a poster at the 29th tRNA meeting in Kanazawa, Japan.
October 2024: Lab publishes its first research article in JBC, congrats to Josh, Alka and all other authors!
August 2024: Upasna gave a talk in the RNA Collaborative Seminar series.
August 2024: Alka presents her postdoctoral work at the CIRM conference at USC.
August 2024: Latest study from the lab, titled “Epididymis-specific RNase A family genes regulate fertility and small RNA processing”, led by Josh and Alka is now available on BioRxiv.
August 2024: Latest study from the lab, titled “A sperm-enriched 5’fragment of tRNA-Valine regulates preimplantation embryonic transcriptome and development”, led by May is now available on BioRxiv.
July 2024: Lab was awarded a seed grant from the UCSC Genomics Institute, in collaboration with Chamorro-Garcia lab!
May 2024: Alka presents her postdoctoral work at the RNA Society Annual Conference 2024 in Edinburgh, Scotland.
March 2024: Upasna discusses her work on paternal inheritance and her scientific journey on Active Motif podcast.
January 2024: Anjali is awarded the IRACDA Postdoctoral Fellowship and Alka is awarded a third year of CIRM Postdoctoral Fellowship. Congrats Anjali and Alka!
December 2023: May gave a talk at the Bay Area RNA meeting.
October 2023: Upasna gave a talk at the Bay Area Chromatin club.
July 2023: Anjali Misra joins the lab as a Postdoctoral Researcher. Welcome Anjali!
July 2023: Julian Swartz joins the lab as a Junior Specialist. Welcome Julian!
June 2023: Upasna gave a talk at the Molecular Mechanisms in Evolution, GRC meeting.
March 2023: May published a review article in the International Journal of Molecular Sciences. Well done, May!
March 2023: Andrew published a correspondence article with his previous team in Nature Methods. Congrats Andrew!
Feb 2023: May was selected as one of the finalists from the PBSci Division for the Grad Slam competition. Great job, May!
January 2023: Upasna gave a talk at the 2nd Subhash Mukhopadhyay e-Symposium.
July 2022: Upasna gave a talk at the FENS, Paris, meeting.
July 2022: Andrew’s PhD work from his previous lab was published in BioRxiv. Congrats Andrew!
January 2022: Alka is awarded the CIRM postdoctoral fellowship for her work on stem cells. Congrats Alka!
December 2021: Josh passes her qualifying exam. Congrats Josh!
September 2021: Alka Gupta joins the lab as a Postdoctoral Researcher. Welcome, Alka!
June 2021: Edgardo Linares joins the lab as a Junior Specialist. Welcome, Edgardo!
The lab was awarded a grant from the John Templeton Foundation to further our studies in intergenerational inheritance.
Our latest study on epididymis and vas deferens single-cell sequencing with the Rando lab is now on published in Elife
July 2020: May passed her qualifying exam. Congrats May!
June 2020: Joshua was selected to be supported by the departmental NIH T32 grant. Well deserved. Congrats!
April 2020: Upasna was awarded a Searle Scholars award!
March 2020: Joshua Shaffer joins the lab as a Ph.D. student. Welcome, Josh!
Upasna discusses the role of RNA in epigenetic inheritance in this Finding Genius podcast
Our latest study on Single-cell epididymis sequencing with the Rando lab is now on Biorxiv
Jan 2020: Upasna gave a talk at the Keystone Noncoding RNA meeting in Whistler CA
Nov 2019: Elvira Antonia joins the lab as a PREP scholar
Nov 2019: Geetika Kharkwal joins the lab as a Research Associate Specialist
Nov 2019: Josh starts his second rotation in our lab. Welcome, Josh!
Our review article is out in Frontiers
Upasna received NIH Director’s New Innovator Award. The lab is now funded by NIH! https://news.ucsc.edu/2019/09/sharma-innovator-award.html
September 2019: Sarah and Tiffany start their first rotation in the Sharma Lab. Welcome!
September 2019: Sydney received ABRCMS student travel award. Congrats Sydney!
September 2019: May presented a poster at the PBSE Research Conference
August 2019: Upasna gave a talk at Epigenetic Inheritance Symposium in Zurich, Switzerland.
August 2019: Sydney presented a poster at the 10th Annual Physical and Biological Sciences Summer Research Symposium.
July 2019: Upasna gave a talk at GRC: Epigenetic Mechanisms Across Scales: From Molecules to Environment and Evolution
Summer 2019: Sydney, Arisbeth, and Ava join the lab.
The lab gets funding from the UCSC COR. Thanks!
Spring 2019: May joins the lab as a graduate student! Welcome, May!
Undergraduate students, Alex, and Brandon join the lab.
Sharma lab opens at UCSC!