December 2023: Hashem is the first Concordia Global Public Health Fellow, holding the Lady Mireille and Sir Dennis Gillings Postdoctoral Fellowship.
September 2023: Welcome to Chelsea Abboud, the newest MSc student in the lab. Chelsea will continue the work on humanization of yeast TRAPP genes.
August 2023: Hashem's TRAPPC6B paper was accepted in Brain. Great collaboration with the Kreuer lab amongst many others. Congratulations on a solid piece of work!
August 2023:Welcome to the newest PhD student in the lab, Rozmehr Shokohi who will continue the TANGO2 fly work.
June 2023: Paria recently won 2 prizes for her vitamin B5/TANGO2 work: the Berti Farag Science Excellence Award for the best BIOL490 project and the best poster award at the recent Concordia Health Sciences Symposium. Way to go!
June 2023: Congratulations to Erta for successfully defending her MSc thesis on humanization of yeast!
May 2023: Hashem successfully defended his PhD thesis! Congratulations and best of luck in your postdoc in France! Some pictures from the celebration are here and here.
March 2023: Our work on vitamin B5 was featured in a recent Concordia NOW spotlight. We were also featured in a JIMD Podcast (listen here).
January 2023: Paria was featured in the Concordia Student Profiles. Read all about her undergraduate journey here.
December 2022: Congratulations to Paria on the acceptance of her Vitamin B5 manuscript. This is an incredible accomplishment for an undergraduate student!
June 2022: Paria presented a poster on her TANGO2/vitamin B5 work at the recentTANGO2 Research Foundation Family Conference in Orlando, Florida. A video of the talk on the vitamin B5 work is here.
May 2022: Welcome to new PhD student Mahsa Mehranfar, as well as three summer students Paria Asadi, Cassandra Roussel and Lea Budig. Congratulations and farewell to KC who successfully defended her MSc thesis!
March 2022: Double congratulations to Hashem. He was the runner up in the doctoral category of the Three Minute Thesis competition (article is here and his talk is here). He also had his work on TRAPPC10 accepted in PLoS Genetics.
February 2021: We were recently involved in a podcast by the CoRDS rare disease registry highlighting the TANGO2 Foundation and TANGO2 disease. You can listen here.
January 2021: Good riddance 2020! And welcome to Erta Zykaj, the newest graduate student in the lab!
December 2020: Our TANGO2 paper was featured in a podcast on recent JIMD papers. You can listen here.
August 2020: Congratulations to Miroslav, with help from Djenann and Khashayar, on acceptance of our first TANGO2 paper.
April 2020: Funding has been granted by both NSERC and the TANGO2 Research Foundation. The latter is in collaboration with Dr. Felix Distelmaier in Dusseldorf, Germany.
January 2020: KC Chase and Elnaz Fatemi have joined the lab to pursue their graduate work. Welcome aboard!
August 2019: Congratulations to Hiba and Hashem on their recent marriage! The wedding reception was fantastic!
March 2019: Ana and Khashayar were both recipients of a competitive CUSRA award. They will be joining the lab over the coming summer to conduct research projects. Congratulations!
March 2019: Daniela's paper on the role of TRAPPC11 and other TRAPP III components in autophagy has been accepted in Traffic. Congratulations!
May 2018: Congratulations to Yitzchok who was selected as a valedictorian in the Faculty of Arts and Science at this spring's convocation! Profiled here and his valedictorian address is here. Yitzchok was also named the inaugural recipient of the Berti Farag Science award for his BIOL490 project. Good luck in McGill Medical School next fall!
May 2018: A paper describing two individuals, one with a TRAPPC11 mutation, was recently accepted. This paper is the first to show hypoglycosylation of alpha-dystroglycan in an individual with a TRAPPC11 mutation.
January 2018: Hashem Almousa has joined the lab as a M.Sc. student. Welcome!
September 2017: We welcome Mischa Weissenberg and Yitchok Ahisar, two BIOL490 students in the lab.
May 2017: A paper describing the first known individuals with a TRAPPC12 mutation was accepted in AJHG. Congratualtions Miroslav!
October 2016: Congratulations to Qingchuan on successfully defending her M.Sc. thesis. Best of luck as you move on to your Ph.D.
January 2016: A recent paper involving the lab suggests that TRAPPC11 is unexpectedly involved in protein glycosylation.
October 2015: The lab was thrilled to find out that Dr. Stephanie Brunet was recognized as the Fall 2015 Valedictorian for the Faculty of Arts and Science!! Congratulations on this well-deserved recognition! See her valedictorian speech here.
September 2015: Alexandra Peebles has joined the lab as a M.Sc. student. Alexandra is an alumna of the Biology Department.
March 2015: Congratulations to Miroslav who spearheaded the work on the role of TRAMM (previously known as TrappC12) in mitosis. The paper has now been accepted for publication in the Journal of Cell Biology! The paper was also highlighted in the journal.
September 2014: Qinqchuan Zhao joins the lab all the way from China as the newest graduate student.
May 2014: Welcome to Keshika Prematilake who joins the lab to pursue her graduate studies.
March 2014: Miroslav was awarded a GRASP postdoctoral fellowship for two years. He will continue to pursue his work on mitosis and the link to membrane traffic. Congratulations!
February 2014: Congratulations to Nassim (aka Dr. Shahrzad) upon successfully defending her PhD thesis! The committee commented positively on the quality of the written thesis, the presentation and her ability to handle the questions posed to her. Nassim has the distinction of being the first PhD student to come out of the lab.
July 2013: Two new publications from the lab show that (i) the foie gras domain of TRAPPC11 functions in post-Golgi traffic and is linked to human health, and (ii) an SEDT-causing mutation in the yeast protein Trs20p blocks autophagy. Congratulations to Stephanie and Nassim, first authors on the papers!
May 2013: Clenia Azevedo, an exchange student from Brazil, joins the lab as a summer student.
January 2013: Sary Snounou is the most recent addition to the lab. He joins us as an M.Sc. student.
September 2012: Two new members have joined the lab: Daniela Stanga joins as a Ph.D. student and Hartley Dutczak is the newest Biol490 student.
June 2012: Congratulations to Debora upon successfully defending her MSc thesis work. Her studies involved the characterization of two mammalian TRAPP-interacting proteins.
May 2012: Visit us in our new lab, SP-436!
Transformations - Benedeta Hasaj joins the lab as an M.Sc. student after nearly one year as a research assistant. Annika Seddon will be working as an NSERC summer research student.
April 2012: There is one opening for a BIOL490 honours student for either summer or fall 2012. Contact Dr. Sacher for details.
I am accepting a new graduate student for Fall 2012. Interested candidates should Contact Dr. Sacher explaining their interest in the lab, submit recent transcripts and provide 2 letters of recommendation.
Feb. 2012: A new publicationled by Stephanie Brunet questions the existence of 3 TRAPP complexes in yeast.
