Latest lab events
Welcome to the lab
Dexter Nguyen
Loryn Johnson
Spring 2024
Two rotation students joined our lab this spring. Loryn and Dexter are both members of the PiN program. Dexter is working to characterize new reporter mouse lines that will allow us to purify lysosomes or mitochondria from the brain in a cell type specific manner. Loryn is investigating the role of peroxisomes in TBI.
Society for Neuroscience symposium, Washington, DC
November 11-15, 2023
Another great showing at the SFN!
Chinmoy, Amir and Sage all presented posters this year.
Summer 2023 interns
June-August 2023
This year's summer interns:
Sophie Gandsas, STEM Fellowship, Bryn Mawr High School, Baltimore, MD
Sarah Griffith, UM Scholars, U Maryland, College Park, MD
Rachel Katz, UM Scholars, U Maryland, College Park, MD
National Capital Area TBI Research Symposium
College Park, MD
March 8-9, 2023
After a 2-year COVID break we were finally able to attend the annual NCA-TBI Research Symposium. It was great to present our data and get to know colleagues from Maryland, DC, Virginia and Pennsylvania involved in all aspect of preclinical and clinical TBI research. Amir and Chinmoy were both selected for oral presentations; Sage was one of the finalists in student poster competition.
Great job everyone!
NCA-TBI 2023: Amir, Chinmoy, Liv, Sage, Marta & Jess.
Goodbye to Niv
February 28th, 2023
Niv Hegdekar started in the lab as a MS student in 2015 and was accepted to the Biochemistry PhD program in 2016. Her PhD thesis focused on the role of autophagy in regulation of inflammation in brain trauma and resulted in two 1st author and multiple co-author publications. In addition to her MS and PhD Niv completed UMB President’s Entrepreneurial Fellowship and Master of Science in Law (Patent Law) degree at the UMB School of Law. She also served in several student organizations, including 2 years as president of the UMB University Student Government Association (USGA). For her service she was awarded the 2021 UMB Presidential Core Values Award for Leadership and the 2022 Otani Award, which recognized a PhD student with outstanding academic and service record.
Niv is starting a position as a Strategy Consultant at IQVIA, Boston, MA. Good luck in your new venture, Niv. We will miss you!
A new rotation student
January-March 2023
A MolMed PhD student, Jess Gore, joined our lab as a rotation student.
For her rotation project Jess is using BMDM to assess the role of autophagy in responses to lipid phagocytosis.
Society for Neuroscience symposium, San Diego, CA
Welcome to the lab
Sage Thapa, a 3rd year Molecular Medicine PhD student joined our lab in June 2022
Liv Pettyjohn-Robin, a recent UM Baltimore County graduate became our new lab assistant in September 2022
November 12-16, 2022
Chinmoy and Amir presented their work at the Society for Neuroscience meeting in San Diego, CA. Great job!
The annual Lipinski lab BBQ
June 12th, 2022
We had many reasons to celebrate this year.
Niv graduated with her PhD and Sabrina's was accepted to DO school. Sabrina will be leaving us in July to start her medical education. We will all miss her!
We were joined by lab alumna Julia Thayer, now a postdoc at NIH, and her husband Evin.
Past & current Lipinski lab members: Sage, Julia, Marta, Niv, Sabrina and Amir.
New funding for interdisciplinary investigation of brain aging mechanisms
Our MPI team: Drs. Lipinski, Kane and Cummings
June 2022
Our new MPI R33 Grant to develop methods enabling cell type and organelle specific lipidomic and proteomic analyses of the aging mouse brain was approved by the NIA. Special thanks to our collaborators Dr. Maureen Kane at he UM School of Pharmacy and Dr. Michael Cummings at UM College Park. We are looking forward to continuing collaboration with this outstanding team.
Niv's graduation
May 19th, 2022
Niv was chosen to speak on behalf of all the UMB students and to introduce this year's commencement speaker, Dr. Anthony Fauci. Needless to say, she did an awesome job!
Congratulations Niv!
