Van Meir Lab attends 3rd Southeastern Brain Tumor Research Meeting and participates in Blazer Bolt

On Thursday, May 15, 2025, the Van Meir Lab presented at the 3rd Southeastern Brain Tumor Research Meeting (SBTRM) at the UAB Hill Center. The SBTRM seeks to build lasting collaborations among investigators in the southeastern United States whose research focuses on adult and pediatric brain tumors. 

On Saturday, May 17, 2025, members of the Van Meir Lab participated in the twelfth annual Blazer Bolt for Brain Cancer 5K and Fun Run.

Van Meir Lab attends the 11th Adhesion GPCR Consortium Workshop in Mexico City

The Van Meir Lab attended the 11th 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.

Jesse Stillwell

Paper published in Molecular Neurobiology

“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.

2024 O’Neal Neuro-Oncology Program Retreat

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.