Science Twitter- these grad students were shot while in GA attending an Entomological Society of America Branch Meeting. Random shooting on the street. They are gonna need some help with bills while they recover. Let’s share this & help where we can! gofund.me/c538310f

Ran into some ACAxtal connections at #DiscoverBMB from the @SmithLabUMBC! Had fun chatting with Mark Lee & Misti !

Thank you to ASBMB for hosting another great #DiscoverBMB. Thanks to everyone for their kind words, until next year!

3rd year graduate student from the lab presenting her work in CNMS GradFest at UMBC! Amazing lighting talk! Congratulations, Manju! #umbc UMBC Chemistry #RNA

As a scientist who came to the US from the Global South, then became a US citizen after ~10 years while finishing my postdoc, privilege differences were quite stark. Especially for me was the limited ability to apply for US pre/post-doctoral fellowships. nature.com/articles/d4158…

Our very own Juliet Obi just presented her work at #FCBIS2024. Well done Juliet!!! PharmSci_Maryland Annual MidAtlantic FCBIS

Thrilled and honored to take first place in the Three Minute Thesis competition🏆 at American Crystallographic Association conference ! Presenting my research in just three minutes was an exhilarating challenge. #ACA2024 UMBC The Koirala Lab

Really happy to share the final version of my first FIRST author paper, published in Journal of Biological Chemistry, and presented earlier at DiscoverBMB! Here, we explored the differences between GTP-strict and NTP-promiscuous FeoBs using V. cholerae as a model. jbc.org/article/S0021-…

This study in nature addresses an important issue but erases the discrimination experienced by Asians in academia by lumping them in with white academics. And in this way, it elegantly pulls a racism while pointing out racism (1/7) nature.com/articles/s4156…

In researching the class I'll present this week I am reviewing the story of James Watson, Nobel Laureate for his work on DNA structure and a prominent leader in our community for decades, including a leadership role in the Human Genome Project 1/n

Another wonderful talk at Frontiers in Metals in Medicine Symposium by @SmithLabUMBC

Very proud of our UMBC Chemistry graduate student Anthony Casale on his first first author paper! It's online in Phys. Rev. Mater. Physical Review Materials and assesses if an underexplored family of oxides can support magnetism. journals.aps.org/prmaterials/pd…

Our lab's latest paper. This is so exciting!! This paper is literally 10 years in the making, and it is bringing me great joy to see it published. Also the figures in it are 🔥so you should give it a read! x.com/biophyskrys/st…

Structural Plasticity of RRE Stem-Loop II Modulates Nuclear Export of HIV-1 RNA biorxiv.org/content/10.110… Excited to share a new preprint from the Koirala Lab! We studied how the structural plasticity of the Rev Response Element (RRE) can regulate the nuclear export of HIV-1 RNA!

Being a #scientist is really difficult right now. Hanging on to the good and celebrating wins. My grad student shared the coolest data with me yesterday. It was such a pick me up. Learning new #immunology and creating knowledge. Our jobs matter

What a rewarding day for the Koirala Lab today! Graduate student, Manju Ojha, gave an excellent talk at FCBIS, and received outstanding biochemistry research award from CNMS at UMBC. Two undergraduates, Megan and Jason, received outstanding research awards! Congratulations!!

The first PhD from The Koirala Lab!! Congratulations Dr. Naba Krishna Das! The lab is proud of you and your accomplishments. Wish you all the best for future endeavors!

It’s time to change the title from tenure-track assistant professor to tenured associate professor! Thanks to students, mentors, family, colleagues and friends for their help and support. I am inspired and motivated to serve the science more than ever!