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2024

Oct

We are excited to welcome Dr. Younis Hazari to the lab.

July

The lab attended to Midwest Islet Club Meeting in Chicago. Qiaodan presented her work as a poster.

April

Congratulations to Yeonji Chung for graduating with a Master’s degree!

Congratulations to Mridula Srivathsan for winning Mary Shine Peterson Undergraduate Award!

Congratulations to Emma Gorder for winning Hilldale Undergraduate Research Fellowship!

Our recent Cell Metabolism paper was highlighted in UW Quarterly Magazine!

March

Our new paper is published in STAR Protocols! Congratulations to all authors!

2023

November

Our new paper is now out in Cell Metabolism! CONGRATULATIONS to all authors!

Our Cell Metabolism paper was highlighted in “Nature Reviews Endocrinology” and “UW News”. Check it out!

Big Congratulations to Hugo Lee who successfully defended his PhD thesis on Nov 17th! We are very proud to call him Dr. Lee!

September

Qiaodan Ou, CMB graduate student, joins the lab.

August

Hugo presented his work as a poster in the Summer School of Danish Diabetes and Endocrine Academy.

Feyza gave a presentation in a workshop in the Summer School of Danish Diabetes and Endocrine Academy.

April

Congrats to Liam and Hugo on their paper published in Frontiers in Endocrinology!

February

Congratulations to Feyza on her Vilas Associate Award!

January

Congratulations to Hugo on his research grant award from WiSH!

Yeonji Chung IPiB graduate student joined the lab.

2022

December

The lab is awarded with a grant from Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation.

September

Congratulation to Hugo Lee for winning the Best Poster Award at Diabetes Research Day 2022. Well deserved!

August

Our collaborative work with Hatzoglou lab is now published in Nature Communications. Congrats to all authors!

March

Our collaborative work with Hardikar lab is now published in Front Endocrinol. Congrats to all authors!

February

Feyza’s promotion to Associate Professor with tenure was approved! Congratulations!

2021

December

Our collaborative work with Hotamisligil lab is now published in Nature. Congrats to all authors!

November

Feyza is now an affiliate faculty at the Department of Cell and Regenerative Biology of UW-Madison.

October

Our review article is now published online in Molecular Metabolism! Congrats to Semra and Hugo! Read more about it here.

June

Feyza presented our lab’s work in “Heterogeneity of Diabetes: Beta Cells, Phenotypes and Precision Medicine Symposium” , which was organized by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) and NIH/NIDDK to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the discovery of insulin.

February

Congratulations to Hugo on his UW Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine Center Graduate Training Award!

January

Julia Dorris joins the lab as an undergraduate researcher.

2020

December

Congrats to Hugo on publishing his new paper in STAR Protocols!

Congrats to Zeynep on her graduation with a Master’s degree.

Our lab’s research, published in Cell Metabolism earlier this year, was chosen by research communicators at UW Madison as one of the most memorable stories of 2020! Read more about it here.

September

Hugo gives a talk on his recent work at IPiB retreat.

June

Congrats to Hugo on publishing his new paper in iScience!

We wish good luck to Sierra as she moves to grad school at UC-Davis.

We wish best of luck to Yash as he moves to grad school at Johns Hopkins.

We wish good luck to Yian as he moves to grad school at Carnegie Mellon.

April

We welcome Dr. Semra Sahin as a new postdoctoral fellow in our group.

Congrats to Hugo on publishing his first first-author paper in Cell Metabolism!

Our recent paper is highlighted in Nature Reviews Endocrinology and LabAnimal.

Our recent work is highlighted in Drug Review Target, Insulin Nation, Fierce Biotech, and Turkish media.

UW-Madison Quarterly Magazine features our recent study.

Watch Feyza’s interview on our recent publication in Turkish here.

February

Brett Pontelandolfo joins the lab as an undergraduate researcher.

2019

November

Arige Ghwel, M.D. joins the lab as an Honorary Fellow.

September

Caroline Schwenkel, “DAAD RISE Scholar”, joins the lab for her internship.

July

The Engin lab gets together for a potluck- dishes include the Turkish börek and kisir, Circassian chicken salad, crab legs, spring rolls, chicken katsu, fruit kebabs, and cookies!

May

Hugo passed his prelim. Looking forward to great things!

The lab wishes farewell and congratulations to Kendall on her graduation. Best of luck, Kendall!

Engin Lab members head for Michigan to present their work at Midwest Islet Club meeting.

2018

September

Yash Sonthalia joins the lab as an undergraduate researcher.

June

Sierra joins the lab as our first research intern.

Kendall is back to the lab for summer research.

Engin Lab “Welcome Summer” social is scheduled for June 15th!”

May

Feyza visited Sanko University for their “Guest of Honor Program”: Read more about it here.

Congratulations and best wishes to Giselle Rogers who graduated from UW-Madison.

Welcome Yian Liao! Yian will do his summer internship in our lab.

April

Hugo presented his poster at the Morgridge Metabolism Symposium.

February

Feyza is now a member of the UW-Madison Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine Center.

2017

December 

Hugo Lee, IPiB graduate student, joins the lab.

November

Feyza is now a member of The University of Wisconsin Carbon Cancer Center.

January

Rezwana Karim, Kendall Gross, and Shan Gill join the lab as undergraduate researchers.

2016

September

Giselle Rogers joins the lab as an undergraduate researcher.

June 

Zeynep Oktay, Alexandra Vitale, and Stephanie Ruderman join the lab as undergraduate researchers.

May 

Feyza is one of two UW-Madison faculty to receive the Shaw Scientist Award, presented by the Greater Milwaukee Foundation.

January 

Molly Weltzer joins the lab as an undergraduate researcher.

2015

September
Tugce Akcan joins the lab as an Honorary Fellow.

June
Elliot Domask joins the lab as an undergraduate researcher.

February
Ross Munce and Madison Wolters join the lab as undergraduate researchers.

2014

November
Quincy Harenda joins the lab as a technician.

October
Feyza joins the faculty of UW-Madison Department of Biomolecular Chemistry and Department of Medicine.

May
Feyza receives Research Scientist Development Award (K01), from the National Institute of Health.

April
Feyza awarded with a Career Development Award from the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation.