The Van Meir Lab attended the 11^th Adhesion GPCR Consortium Workshop in Mexico City, held October 23-25, 2024.

All 3 graduate students in the lab had an oral presentation, and there were 4 posters presented as well.

“It was a great opportunity for networking and learn what other investigators are doing in our field,” said Erwin Van Meir.

While in Mexico City, the Van Meir Lab also experienced the Day of the Dead celebration and visited archeological sites such as Teotihuacan to learn about Mesoamerican culture.

“Novel Isoforms of Adhesion G Protein‐Coupled Receptor B1 (ADGRB1/ BAI1) Generated from an Alternative Promoter in Intron 17,” a recent study by the Van Meir research team has been published online in Molecular Neurobiology. 

Authors of the paper include current Van Meir lab members Erwin G. Van Meir, Ph.D., Rashed Rezwan Parag, and Kiyotaka Saitoh, Ph.D., as well as lab alumni Takahiro Yamamoto, M.D., Ph.D., Dan Zhu, Ph.D., and Liquan Yang, Ph.D.

As part of the Springer Nature Content Sharing Initiative, the paper can be accessed here: https://rdcu.be/dMeNi.

Congratulations to Jesse, Rashed and Alex on passing their qualifying exams last week. Rashed’s first author manuscript was also published in Molecular Neurobiology. The Van Meir Lab team went to Taco Mama to celebrate!

The Van Meir Lab team participated in the eleventh annual Blazer Bolt for Brain Cancer 5K and Fun Run was held Saturday, May 18, at Railroad Park in Homewood, Alabama. Pictured: Virginea De Araujo Farias and her husband, Andrea Comba, Sarah Kammerud, Dr. Erwin Van Meir and other friends!

Alex Torrelli-Diljohn presented a poster at the Family Strong Meeting for Brain Tumor Patients and Caregivers, hosted by the UAB O’Neal Comprehensive Cancer Center on Friday, May 17. 

Today, on April 30, 2024, the Van Meir lab gathered for a lunch to celebrate Yuki Kuranaga and the publication of her paper in Cells, an international, peer-reviewed, open access journal. Click here to read the paper.

Congratulations to Yuki Kuranaga on her recently accepted paper showing a unique role of integrin a3b1 in glioblastoma! Click here to read the paper.

Lab members Rashed Parag (left image) and Alex Torrelli-Diljohn (right image, white shirt) during poster presentations at the Annual O’Neal Neuro-Oncology Program Retreat on Feb. 13, 2024.

Members of the Van Meir Lab enjoying their new ThermoFisher Scientific DNA swag at a recent lab meeting!

In collaboration with a team at Emory University, researchers in the Van Meir published a study titled, “Generation and initial characterization of mice lacking full-length BAI3 (ADGRB3) expression.”

Read the study here: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37337931/