News
May 10th, 2022
New undergrad member!
Rising junior Vishal Reddy joins the lab as our first undergraduate lab member! Vishal is a premed majoring in physics!
April 30th, 2022
Ekram officially joins the lab!
Ekram officially joins the Shekhar lab as our third graduate student! Yay!
January 15th, 2022
Welcome Ekram!
Physics student Ekram Towsif joins the lab for his second rotation!
November 30th, 2021
Welcome Taylor!
BCDB student Taylor Hailstock joins the lab for her second rotation!
October 1st, 2021
2nd TIRF scope!!
Our second TIRF scope arrives! More scopes, happy students, happy PI!
August 1st, 2021
NIH R35!
We are officially an NIH funded lab! Thrilled to announce award of our 5 year $1.94M R35 MIRA grant! This grant will fund our work on multicomponent mechanochemical molecular mechanisms underlying cellular actin dynamics. Multiple postdoc, technician positions open!
May 1st, 2021
First grad students join the lab!
Shekhar lab welcomes our first grad students - Ankita and Heidi, both of whom have decided to join our lab!
February 1st, 2021
Heidi joins the lab!
BCDB Heidi joins the lab for her PhD rotation!
January 10th, 2021
Hannah and Ankita join the lab!
Physics graduate students Hannah and Ankita join the lab for their 2nd rotation.
January 10th, 2021
Welcome Ignas!
Ignas Gaska joins the lab as our first postdoc. Ignas did his PhD with Scott Forth studying mechanisms of microtubule bundling with Scott Forth at RPI.
December 1st, 2020
New paper out in JCB!
Our story on twinfilin's depolymerization of actin filament barbed ends just out in Journal of Cell Biology.
October 8th, 2020
Our microscope has just been delivered!
Our new TIRF microscope has arrived!
August 1st, 2020
First day of the Shekhar lab
The Shekhar lab takes off at the Physics department at Emory University!
July 15th, 2020
Shashank speaks at the BCDB graduate program
Shashank presented lab's research program at the Biochemistry, Cell and Developmental Biology Zoom seminar.