June 2025
Farewell and good luck to former LIKER undergraduate and current Research Support Specialist (Mallipattu Lab) Yogesh Gowthaman!
Trinity Hausch (Chan lab) highlighted as URECA “Researcher of the Month”! Trinity is a junior in the WISE honors program, and recipient of a Mitchell Wortzman Undergraduate Research award to undertake research this summer. Read more about Trinity and her research here.
May 2025
Congratulations to LIKER student Christian Reilly (Agrawal Lab) on receiving a Provost’s Award for Academic Excellence! Onward and upward to Stony Brook Medical School!
LIKER students turning into Kidney artists! Special handcrafted tokens of gratitude to their mentor – thanks Ama and Mahika (Agrawal lab)!
Congratulations to 11 LIKER students (from 6 nephrology labs) graduating this year!
Special congratulations to LIKER trainees graduating with honors!
Ama Fernando (Biochemistry), thesis: “Effects of selective modulation of PPARg by GQ-16 in water retention through the collecting duct”, mentor: Dr. Agrawal. Brown University bound for Masters in Biotechnology program!
Asha Rath (Biochemistry and Political Science double major), thesis: “Mechanistic target of rapamycin complex 1 (mTORC1) activity in a nephrotoxic model of acute kidney injury”, mentor: Dr. Piret
Christian Reilly (Biology), thesis: “The role of mRNA alternative splicing in glomerular disease”, mentor: Dr. Agrawal
Mahika Yarram (Biochemistry), thesis: “mRNAs are alternatively polyadenylated in glomerular disease models”, mentor: Dr. Agrawal
New publications! Two new papers from the Agrawal and Piret/Mallipattu labs featuring LIKER trainees Mahika Yarram, Christian Reilly, Maanasa Hanubal, Merin Davis, Asha Rath, and Bismark Owusu Frimpong, have been accepted to JASN!
Das MK, Webb A, Yarram M, Reilly C, Punepalle L, Bryant C, Govindarajan R, Moore CL, Agrawal S. RNA Alternative Splicing and Polyadenylation and Regulation of the Glomerular Filtration Barrier. JASN (2025) doi: 10.1681/ASN0000000748.
Piret SE*, DiMartino S, Hanubal M, Davis M, Wang J, Bahadur T, Rath A, Gujarati NA, Frimpong BO, Bronstein R, Revelo MP, Guo Y, Mallipattu SK*. Krüppel-Like Factor 6 Induces RNA Polymerase II Subunit RPB1 to Promote Kidney Injury. JASN (2025) doi: 10.1681/ASN.0000000722. *joint corresponding authors.
LIKER trainees presented posters at the Stony Brook Women in Medicine Research Day, Honors Research Symposium and URECA symposium in 2025 – well done to all! (Pics with Post-Doc and PhD supervisors).
April 2025
Congratulations to LIKER trainees Sooah Kwak, Emily Htam, and Trinity Hausch, who have received URECA awards, and Xingying Chen who has received a SUNY SOAR award, all to undertake research in nephrology this summer!
January 2025
New publication! A new paper from the Estrada/Mallipattu labs detailing the role of PLVAP in thrombotic microangiopathy, including LIKER trainee Sumaya Ahmed, has been accepted to AJP-Renal!
Estrada CC, Wilson C, Gujarati N, Ahmed S, Bronstein R, Daehn IS, Revelo MP, Guo Y, Mallipattu SK. Induction of plasmalemmal vesicle-associated protein exacerbates glomerular endothelial injury in thrombotic microangiopathy. Am J Physiol Renal Physiol doi: 10.1152/ajprenal.00283.2024, PMID: 39706169.
December 2024
Our First Annual LIKER Symposium was a great success, including 14 excellent student snapshot presentations, an informative talk on cell and organoid culture from Fisher and Corning, a lively career panel discussion, and even some classical music and yummy food! For more information and pictures from the day see our Annual Symposium page.
October 2024
Congratulations to Anirudh Krishnan (Mallipattu lab) and Asha Rath (Piret lab) who gave their first ASN Kidney Week poster presentations in San Diego!
September 2024
New publication! A new paper from the Mallipattu lab detailing the roles of KLF6 and CaMK1D signaling in diabetic kidney disease, including LIKER trainees Bismark Owusu Frimpong and Malaika Zaidi, has been accepted to Nature Communications!
Gujarati NA, Frimpong BO, Zaidi M, Bronstein R, Revelo MP, Haley JD, Kravets I, Guo Y, Mallipattu SK. Podocyte-specific KLF6 primes proximal tubule CaMK1D signaling to attenuate diabetic kidney disease. Nature Communications, doi: 10.1038/s41467-024-52306-5
July 2024
Farewell to Andrew Chow (Mallipattu lab), and best of luck for your future studies at VCU School of Medicine!
May 2024
Congratulations to all who presented posters at the 2024 URECA symposium.
April 2024
Congratulations to LIKER trainees Asha Rath (Piret lab), Stacey Jiang (Mallipattu lab), who have received URECA awards, and Christian Reilly (Agrawal lab) who has received a SUNY SOAR award, all to undertake research this summer!
December 2023
Congratulations Maanasa Hanubal (Piret lab) for graduating with honors in Biology, thesis title: “Role of Polr2a in acute kidney injury and chronic kidney disease”!
November 2023
Well done Andrew Chow, Yogesh Gowthaman, and Malaika Zaidi from Mallipattu lab on your poster presentations at ASN Kidney Week 2023 in Philadelphia!
New publication! A new paper from the Piret/Mallipattu labs describing endotoxin levels and acute kidney injury in intensive care unit patients, including LIKER trainees Fabliha Fairuz and Merin Davis, has been accepted for publication in Blood Purification!
Piret SE*, Khan S, Fairuz F, Gholami S, Davis M, Kim CK, Espinoza M, Foster D, Kellum JA, Ahmad S, Kalogeropoulos AP, Mallipattu SK*. Endotoxemia Correlates with Kidney Function and Length of Stay in Critically Ill Patients. Blood Purification doi: https://doi.org/10.1159/000534107 *joint corresponding authors.
