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Ninova Lab is thrilled to be part of the new UCR and the City of Hope – Comprehensive Cancer Center (CoH-CCC) partnership, a $13.7 million 5-year grant awarded by the NIH National Cancer Institute (NCI) Partnerships to Advance Cancer Health Equity program.

Thrilled to announce that our lab has been awarded an NIH R35 (MIRA) grant to further investigate the mechanisms of transposons regulation and function ! 🎉🏆 🙌 We thank NIH/NIGMS for this incredible opportunity and couldn’t be more excited about the research possibilities ahead!

We’re pleased to announce the newest publication from Ninova/Aravin lab: “Pervasive SUMOylation of heterochromatin and piRNA pathway factors.” Using diGly proteomics in Drosophila, we identified sites of SUMOylation on many proteins involved in heterochromatin organization and gene silencing through the piRNA pathway.

We are delighted to welcome Sabrina as a graduate student in the lab, after the Fall ‘22 rotation! Sabrina will leverage bioinformatics and experimental work to study transposon biology in the Drosophila model system.

After completing her 10 week summer project, Alma was the 2-year NIH-funded MARC U STAR Trainee Fellowship. Congratulations and good luck!

Preprint of Maria’s work ‘Pervasive SUMOylation of heterochromatin and piRNA pathway proteins’ is now available on bioRxiv https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.08.15.504007v1 Stay tuned for updates!

We are delighted to have completed the lab move to a (hopefully) permanent location on the 5th floor of Boyce Hall! Our new space is fully equipped with adjacent fly room, cell culture room, and student office (with great views!

I am pleased to announce the launch of a new graduate class from the BCH230 Series - Advanced topics in Biochemistry, “Genomics and Proteomics”. The goal of this class is to provide graduate students with insights into the principles behind modern omics technologies that will enhance their ability to understand omics data presented in the scientific literature and make strategic decisions in their research.

Ninova lab is delighted to welcome our first PhD student Kun Wu! Kun is enrolled in the BCMB graduate program and completed a 10-week rotation in the fall prior to joining.