Cracan Lab

LABORATORY OF REDOX BIOLOGY AND METABOLISM
Principal Investigator: Valentin Cracan

 

News

October 14, 2021 – Valentin received a grant to study the role of NAD+ and NADP+ redox cofactors in aging from Impetus Grants (http://impetusgrants.com).

August 27, 2021 – Valentin will be presenting at the conference: SYSTEMS BIOLOGY AND SYSTEMS PHYSIOLOGY: REGULATION OF BIOLOGICAL NETWORKS (August 25-27, Moscow, Russia)
THE MEETING IS DEDICATED TO THE 75TH ANNIVERSARY OF FAZLY ATAULLAKHANOV

https://sbsp-conference.org/index.html#header

July 6, 2021 – Congratulations to Alice and Anjali- they successfully completed the SURE Program. I hope you enjoyed learning the biochemistry of redox cofactors!

 
 

July 6, 2021 – Welcome to all participants of the Summer Research internship (SURE Program), Class of 2021. We are especially excited that Alice and Anjali will be spending time in the Cracan lab!

June, 23, 2021 – Valentin received a notice of award for his R35 grant “Expanding the set of genetically encoded tools for compartment-specific manipulation of redox metabolism in living cells” from NIGMS.

November, 16, 2020 – Mina Heacock joined the lab as an intern.

November, 3, 2020 – Gabriel Davoodpour joined the lab as an intern.

September, 18, 2020 – Valentin received a notice of award for his R03 grant “Defining and targeting the compartmentalization of redox metabolism in aging using novel genetically encoded tools” from NIA.

July 11-17, 2020 – Come to gorgeous Barcelona, Spain for some redox and fantastic vibe. I will be there for both GRS and the main meeting. https://www.grc.org/thiol-based-redox-regulation-and-signaling-conference/2020/

July 30, 2019 – Congratulations Andrew and Bruce- summer SURE internship also known as Cracan lab’s crash course in enzymology is completed:


July 11, 2019 -Valentin was invited to give a talk at the Mechanisms and Models of Cancer Meeting to be held at the Salk Institute, July 30th-August 2nd  

Salk Institute

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July 1, 2019 – Warm welcome to all participants of the Summer Research internship (SURE Program), Class of 2019. We are especially excited that Andrew and Bruce will be spending time in our lab!

May 5, 2019 – Valentin was invited to participate in ASBMB’s Interactive Mentoring Activities for Grantsmanship Enhancement (IMAGE) grant writing workshop (June 13-15, 2019 in Washington, D.C.).

April 17, 2019 – come and meet us at the inaugural event  “Resilience to Aging”!

March 1, 2019 – Valentin received a notice of award for his R00 grant “Engineered flavin-dependent enzymes for probing redox environment and regulation” from NIGMS.

March 1, 2019 – Valentin presented the overview of his work at the Friday Seminar at SI.