June 2025
The lab welcomes Beatrice Calciolari from the University of Padua (Italy). Beatrice is a student in the lab of Dr. Alessandro Carrer, and she will work with us for a few months on spatial proteomics (link)!
A bunch of papers and preprints to announce!! First, a new paper in Proteomics on extracellular components of human neocortex (link)!
New collaboration with the Cuervo lab (Einstein) on chaperone-mediated autophagy (link)!
Preprint from the lab on mass spectrometry imaging of murine thymus (link)!
Well done to Stephanie for her collaborative work with the Feldser lab (UPenn), now in the peer-review process (link)!
Another preprint, this time in collaboration with an old friend, Muhammad Tahir (link)!
The lab receives the Montefiore-Einstein Comprehensive Cancer Center grant on “inter-programmatic collaborations”! Congrats to the team: Drs. Kamini Singh, Xingxing Zang, John McAuliffe and Simone Sidoli.
May 2025
Max defended his Qual Proposal and he is finally a PhD candidate!!!
The lab welcomes Ember (Katie Amberg) to the team (link)! She comes from Rutgers, and she will work with us as a summer undergraduate student. Welcome!
Nathan Basisty presents at Einstein his amazing work on proteomics for biomarker discovery in aging biology. Thank you for accepting our invite!
Simone attends the AFAR/Hevolution conference in Santa Barbara where he presents the lab progress on the role of histone succinylation in aging.
Simone presents the status of our single cell proteomics platform at the Einstein Board meeting!
Congrats to Max for publishing an important paper on gluconeogenesis with the Pessin lab in collaboration with us (link)!
Also, congrats to Max for a new preprint on the discordance between RNA and protein levels in mouse hepatocytes (link)
Sarah presents at the Hevolution consortium meeting!
Research.com released the new Ranking of Best Scientists in the field of Molecular Biology. Simone ranked 1012 in United States (link) and 2064 in the world (link).
April 2025
Dejauwne successfully defended his PhD!!! Congratulations! You made all of us very proud. Now, he is off to med school to complete his MSTP program.
The lab welcomes Shivangi Pande to the team as new postdoc! Great to have you in the team! (link)
Unfortunately, we also have to say goodbye to Ellen. We have been very happy to have you in the lab. We hope to see you soon again, and best of luck with the completion of your PhD in Brazil!
The lab publishes two papers in Methods in Molecular Biology: one focused on the automated sample preparation of histone samples (link) and one on the identification of chromatin readers with proteomics (link). Congrats to all the authors!
Congrats to Dejauwne as well for having his main research paper on the role of CARM1 in glioblastoma uploaded in BioRxiv (link). Fingers crossed for a smooth review!
One more paper for the month of April: congrats to Max for publishing in Nature Metabolism with his co-mentor Jeffrey Pessin (link)!
The lab hosts (virtually) Dr. Peder Lund from the Case Western Reserve University to present his research program on microbiome, metabolism and epigenetics. Thank you so much for sharing your science with us!
Simone presents at the Einstein Board meeting. Thank you to the organizers to allow us to share our progress with our proteomics platforms.
Interesting statistics: Simone ranked 9th in the prior 5 years on the “Highly Ranked Scholars” platform under the category “Histone” (link). The ranking is based on weighted number of publications, citations, and h-index.
March 2025
Congratulations to Edwin for publishing his work on HFpEF on the Journal of the American Heart Association (link)! Congrats to Jenny as well for helping with the paper!
The lab says goodbye to Rosita. It has been great to have you in our team, but writing the thesis requires your attention :-) Thank you for the remarkable work you pioneered in our team on developing new enrichment strategies for histone modifications, RNA modifications, and detection of RNA oxidations!
A new movie on "Centenarians" coming soon with our lab featured!! Aging science rocks! See the full trailer here (link), as well as the website (link), and crowdfunding (link).
The lab received the SPARC award in collaboration with Dr. Omar Saeed! Great opportunity to perform some translational science with our latest proteomics innovations.
Simone presents the lab science at the Yeshiva of Flatbush High School in Brooklyn. Thank you Dr. Avivit Nsiri for the invite!
Simone will be the keynote speaker at the Bronx Community College STEM Day in April! Looking forward to it, and thank you to Dr. Raffaella Diotti for the invite!
Simone will be one of the lecturers at the ENRICH Summer School in Italy (July 7-10). Consider applying to it; great opportunity to learn about molecular synthesis of organic molecules acting as receptors. Contact us to know more (link)!
Sarah presents her work on histone succinylation at the Einstein Chromatin Club!
February 2025
The lab goes to the US HUPO conference in Philadelphia! Attendees will be Simone, Sarah, Stephanie, Ronnie, Max, Giulia and Carlos!
Simone will present at the Technology Network panel discussions on February 27th at 11 am (Eastern time). If you are interested in hearing about novel applications in proteomics and mass spectrometry, register here (link).
Well done to our old lab member Yan, who published his major postdoc paper! Out in Analytical Chemistry, a new study on the use of oxidation footprinting to identify drug binding to the protein BCL-2 (link).
Congrats to Stephanie as well for this new collaboration with the lab of Dr. Gilthorpe (Umea, Swden) on the role of extracellular histones in exosomes (link).
A quick update on manuscripts currently in BioRxiv: exciting collaborations on Dynactin with the lab of Dr. Arne Gennerich (link), on the CoREST complex with the lab of Dr. Rhoda Alani (link), and on the enzyme KDM5 with the lab of Dr. Julie Secombe (link).
Check out the website for our consortium ENRICH (link), a collaboration with many labs around the world led by Dr. Roberta Pinalli (University of Parma) and sponsored by the European Union! The collaboration is focused on developing new tools for the enrichment of post translationally modified proteins.
January 2025
Welcome back to everyone! 2024 is starting with lots of news and things coming up. Thank you for checking our website from time to time; we feel your energy!
Simone presents at the IRCCS (Spallanzani Hospital) in Reggio Emilia. Thank you to Drs. Chiara Marracini, Davide Schiroli and Agnese Razzoli for the invite!
Simone and Ronnie present at the Hevolution consortium meeting in Manhattan. Thank you to all the members for making this an unforgettable year (consortium website link).
Simone is heading to Riyadh to present at the Global Healthspan Summit, also sponsored by our Hevolution grant. Looking forward to it (link with program).
Congratulations to our old friend Laura Corveleyn who will defend her PhD thesis in February!
Some good news about manuscripts from the lab. We resubmitted the single cell histone paper of Ronnie to Nature Communications. We also submitted our work on direct injection mass spec (in collaboration with Merck) to ACS Pharmacology & Translational Science, and the work on spatial proteomics we did together with George Karagiannis to Life Science Alliance, which is now under review. Fingers crossed for all of them!
Congrats to Jazmine for publishing a collaboration with the lab of Dr. Arslan Ali in Epigenomics (link).
Congrats to Stephanie as well for two collaborations published in Nature (with Dr. Ian Maze, link) and the Journal of the American Chemical Society (with Dr. Kabirul Islam, link).
With these papers, Simone reached 200 peer-reviewed publications!! What a round number!