Summer 2025

  • Larissa has been awarded the Undergraduate Research Award (UGRA) working on finding genes under selection in highland versus lowland Peromyscus populations!
  • Graham Lab undergrad activities - Marion is doing an NSF REU at Cal State San Marcos; Larissa is working with collaborators at University of Nebraska-Lincoln on Ptarmigan transcriptomics/methylomics; Saborni will be doing lots of Drosophila work. Jackson, and Owen will be continuing to work on their projects throughout the summer.

Spring 2025

  • ​​Congrats to Saborni for being awarded funding from the KU MB Howieson Opportunity Fund​
  • Graham Lab undergrads present their preliminary work at the 28th Annual Undergraduate Research Symposium - congrats to Cara for being awarded an "Outstanding Poster Presentation"!
  • ​​​Dr. Graham publishes in Current Biology based on work from her K99 at the University of Utah! Exciting results that will open up new research avenues.​
  • ​Congrats to Cara on getting into graduate school! She was accepted into Georgetown for their Biomedical Masters program, but will defer until she finishes a postbac in Kansas City. So proud!​​
  • The Graham Lab has its first PhD students! Syeda Begum will work on the NIH funded hypoxia-zebrafish projects, and Zach Opoka will work with our ctenophores to understand the evolution of oxygen homeostasis
  • More KU Undergraduates join the lab - including Owen Dalton, Jackson Wunderlich, and Nicasio Jurani.​
  • January 2025 : The Graham Lab is awarded a grant from the National Institute of Health (NIGMS) to work on the molecular basis of response to hypoxia using Zebrafish (Danio rerio).

Fall 2024

  • Dr. Jason Presnell has been awarded a New Faculty Research Development Award (NFRD) going towards work on gut development in ctenophores; Saborni has been awarded the Undergraduate Research Award (UGRA) working on odorant receptors and hypoxia in Drosophila. We're off to a great start!
  • KU Undergraduates join the lab as the inaugural members of the Graham Lab - including Walter Waxman, Marion Berzansky, Saborni Chakraborty, Cara Goodnight, Larissa Rockenbach (KU MARC).
  • August 2024 : The Graham Lab officially opens at the University of Kansas!