Latest Updates from the Levental Laboratory of Membrane Biology:
January 5, 2025 and 2026: January 5 is a magical day for our extended Levental Lab family! We've had FOUR babies born to our lab family on January 5th over the last two years.
Ines was born to Rossana and Ivan in 2025.
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Bena (and Ruoshi) had her twins Clara and Carrie in 2025.
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Baby Everett was born in 2026 to Hong-Yin (and Autumn).
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April 2025: Our collaborative manuscript "Cell membranes sustain phospholipid imbalance via cholesterol asymmetry" was published in Cell!! Read the news release here.
April 2025: Luis successfully defended his thesis! Congrats to Dr. Real-Hernandez!!
April 2025: Owen was honored at the UVA BIMS White Coat cermony.
October 2024: Bena and Hannah won "Best Poster" at their respective graduate student retreats (Pharmacology and Biophysics)!
March 2024: Daryna and Hannah were honored at their White Coat ceremony.
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February 2023: Hongyin won third prize in the Biophysical Society Annual Meeting Image Contest!
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July 2022: Jessica and Jessie successfully defended their thesis! Congrats to Dr. Symons and Dr. Morrill!!
July 2022: Bena and Luis were awarded the Wagner Fellowship from UVA School of Medicine.
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June 2022: Hongyin won the Biophysical Journal Poster Award at the Molecular Biophysics of Membranes BPS conference in Lake Tahoe!!
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February 2022: Luis received the Student Research Achievement Award at the Biophysical Society Annual Meeting in San Francisco!
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August 2020: Our collaboration with Fred Heberle and Neal Waxham was co-published with Sarah Keller's lab in PNAS and was selected as the cover of the August 2020 issue!!
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August 2020: We've moved!! Our lab is now at the beautiful University of Virginia in the Department of Molecular Physiology and Biological Physics and Center for Membrane and Cell Physiology!
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July 2020: Ivan's paper was selected for the cover of J Phys Chem B! Congrats Ivan!
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March 2020: Our collaborative Nat Chem Bio paper on plasma membrane asymmetry was highlighted in News and Views by Dylan Owen!
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April 2020: Our collaborative Nat Comms paper on homeostatic lipidomic remodeling was featured in the UTHealth news.
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February 2020: Milka and Hongyin gave platform presentations at the Biophysical Society Annual Meeting in San Diego.
December 2019: Barbara and Ivan gave platform presentations at the American Society for Cell Biology Annual Meeting in Washington, DC.
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December 2019: Barbara successfully defended her PhD thesis! Congrats, B!!
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March 2019: Ilya was awarded the Biochemistry and Cell Biology Distinguished Faculty Award! Congrats Il!
October 2018: Hongyin won first prize in the poster competition at the 2018 Texas Medical Center Annual Postdoctoral Science Symposium! Congrats Hongyin!
September 2018: Barbara received the MAC travel award for the 2018 annual ASCB/EMBO Meeting! Congratulations Barbara!
September 2018: The Levental Lab is officially on Twitter. Follow us @LeventalLab!
September 2018: Jessica was honored at the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences PhD student annual White Coat Ceremony. Congrats Jessica!
November 2017: Kandice's paper was published in Science Advances. The story was featured in both the UTHealth and Rice News and on Technology Networks!
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October 2017: Joseph's paper was published in Nature Communications!
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March 2017: Our collaborative project with Robert Ernst, James Saenz, and Maya Schuldiner on "Design principles of living membranes" was awarded funding by the VW Stiftung for five years!
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July 2017: Eric Malmberg successfully defended his Masters thesis!! Way to go, Eric!!
January 2017: Lakshmi's paper was published in Scientific Reports.
November 2016: Xubo's paper was published in J Phys Chem B
September 2016: Xubo's paper was published in FEBS Letters.
August 2016: Karolina and Barbara's paper was published in Molecular Biology of the Cell.
January 2016: Kandice and Joseph's paper was published in Biophysical Journal.
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December 2015: Barbara won Honorable Mention at the annual ASCB MAC poster competition! Congrats Barbara!
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July 2015: Karolina was awarded the Runner Up Postdoc Poster Prize at the FASEB Summer Research Conference on Protein Lipidation and Membrane Domains! Congrats Karolina!
July 2015: We are excited to welcome Eric Malmberg to the lab as a Masters student!
June 2015: Barbara Diaz-Rohrer was selected to attend the highly selective and prestigious MBL Physiology Course in Woods Hole, MA!
December 2014: Barbara was selected to give a platform presentation at the annual American Society of Cell Biology meeting in Philadelphia! She gave a great talk to a crowd of ~100 attendees.
August 2014: Dr. Karolina Tulodziecka joins our lab all the way from Poland. Welcome Karolina!
June 2014: Dr Joseph Lorent joins the lab all the way from Belgium. Welcome Joseph!
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May 2014: The Levental Lab is published again, this time in Proceeding of the National Academy of Sciences!! Congrats to Barbara and Kandice - WAY TO GO!!!
*** A figure from this paper has been chosen for the cover image of PNAS!! Our cover was inadvertently featured on the Colbert Report! |
April 2014: Barbara Diaz-Rohrer wins "Best Poster by a Fellow" award at the annual CRB retreat. Way to go B!
March 2014: Barbara Diaz-Rohrer was accepted into the PhD program of the UT-Houston / MD Anderson Graduate School for Biomedical Sciences. CONGRATS BARBARA!!!!
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October 2013: The Levental Lab has been published!! "Bile acids modulate signaling by functional perturbation of plasma membrane domains" in the Journal of Biological Chemistry. Congrats to us!
*** A figure from this paper has been chosen for the COVER IMAGE of JBC!! |
June 2013: We are excited to welcome Lakshmi Ganesan to the lab as a postdoctoral fellow.
October 2012: Barbara Diaz joins the lab! Welcome Barbara!
August 2012: Shawn Brisbay joins the lab! Welcome Shawn!
August 2012: Ilya received the prestigious CPRIT Scholar award for the Recruitment of First-Time, Tenure-Track Faculty
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June 2012: "Elucidating membrane structure and protein behavior using giant plasma membrane vesicles" article chosen to be cover of Nature Protocols
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