Chahat has received (3) travel fellowships:
1) ToxoInc travel grants
2) DMM conference travel grants from the Company of Biologists
3) IMPRS travel grant 2024 News
Burroughs Wellcome Fund - Congratulations!
Lena Pernas, PhD., David Geffen School of Medicine at University of California-Los Angeles: “Organellar sensing of microbes”
RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C., 20 May 2024- The Burroughs Wellcome Fund is delighted to announce the 2024 recipients of the Investigators in the Pathogenesis of Infectious Disease (PATH) program. PATH provides opportunities for assistant professors to study the points where the systems of humans and potentially infectious agents connect. PATH is a highly competitive award program that provides $500,000 over five years to study pathogenesis. The program intends to give recipients the freedom and flexibility to pursue new avenues of inquiry, stimulating higher-risk research projects that hold potential for significantly advancing our understanding of how infectious diseases work and how health is maintained. The Burroughs Wellcome Fund presents the following scientists as the 2024 PATH program recipients: Kimberly Davis, PhD Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Utilizing a 3D human abscess model to uncover antibiotic persistence mechanisms Tera Levin, PhD University of Pittsburgh How mechanisms of pathogenesis arise from environmental battlegrounds Monica Mugnier, PhD Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Role of extravascular spaces in Trypanosoma brucei antigenic variation Teresa Omeara, PhD University of Michigan Discovery and functional analysis of novel virulence factors in Candida auris Lena Pernas, PhD David Geffen School of Medicine at University of California-Los […]
Chahat won Best Talk Award at the 17th International Congress on Toxoplasmosis
Congrats to Chahat for winning best talk for the 17th International Congress on Toxoplasmosis !
Welcome Melissa Heredia and Nelly Escalante to the Pernas Lab!
Congratulations to former student Bruna Martins Garcia on being a Schmidt Science Fellow!!!!!
Thirty-two early-career researchers were named members of the 2024 cohort of Schmidt Science Fellows, joining a community of scientists and supporters who seek to drive sector-wide change by pursuing interdisciplinary research and Bruna was one of them!!!
Congratulations Sebastian for winning the Life Metabolism Travel Award sponsored by Sable Systems Promethion! Thank you John Speakman!
Congrats Philipp Melchinger for a fantastic talk at the Keystone Organelle Membrane Contact sites in Health and Disease 2024!!!
Philipp Melchinger is selected for a short talk at the Keystone "Organelle Membrane Contact Sites in Health and Disease", congratulations on a great talk Philipp!
'Welcome Marta, Sam, Nathan, and Connor!'
Sebastian's review on "Metabolic immunity against microbes" is out!
The Gulbenkian Institute PhD programs and 30 years of nurturing talent
Wilson shares some of his journey and research interests! Listen here :)
It's out!
Congratulations Dr. Garcia!!!
Bruna’s work earned her a well deserved summa cum laude thesis — which her family who came all the way from Brazil were able to watch. Congratulations Dr. Garcia!!! We let her father take over the cart-pulling tradition :)
Where the heck did all those structures inside complex cells come from?
“Scientists agree that eons ago, a bacterium took up residence inside another cell and became its powerhouse, the mitochondrion. But there are competing theories about the birth of other organelles such as the nucleus and endoplasmic reticulum.”
Thank you Viviane for the interesting article and featuring our work in Knoweable Magazine!
Credit: ISTOCK.COM / ARTUR PLAWGO
Chahat will co-chair the 2025 Gordon Reseach Seminar on Molecular Membrane Biology!
Better late than never: Chahat was selected to co-chair the 2025 Gordon Research Seminar on Molecular Membrane Biology. Thank you Haoxi Wu and Pilar Rivero-Rios for putting together such a thoughtful program and congratulations Chahat!
Li presents at the EMBO Workshop on Lipid Droplets
Explaining his latest discoveries that involve a potential role of lipid droplets in the fate of the his favorite cellular structure, the SPOTs, Li presented his work at the last EMBO workshop “Lipid droplets: Metabolic hubs in health and disease” in Costa Brava, Girona, Spain on September 19th.
Huge success for him and an amazing opportunity to gather opinions from authorities in the field.
Well done Li!
Bruna got accepted in to the FASEB LEAD program
Based on her career track and her professional development goals, Bruna was accepted into the FASEB Leadership Engagement and Appreciation of Differences (LEAD) reverse mentoring program, which pairs senior-level professionals with junior-level mentors to gain different perspectives of individual, group, and cultural views within the workplace and the scientific research communities.
This is a wonderful opportunity for her to get in touch with people more experienced people, not limited to the academic environment, and have an open discussion on diversity in the research community.
HHMI Names Lena as one of the 31 Inaugural Freeman Hrabowski Scholars
The Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) announced the selection of 31 new Freeman Hrabowski Scholars.
This program, launched in 2022, supports outstanding early career faculty in science who have potential to become leaders in their research fields and to create diverse and inclusive lab environments in which everyone can thrive.
You are on fire Lena! Super congrats for this astonishing result!
https://www.hhmi.org/news/hhmi-names-31-inaugural-freeman-hrabowski-scholars
Chahat is awarded the 2023 Federico Tonielli Award that will bring her to Molecular Membrane Biology Gordon Research Conference
Time for another celebration in Pernas lab!
This time the protagonist is Chahat, who is awarded the 2023 Federico Tonielli award.
This award, established in memory of Federico Tonielli, who was a PhD student at the Institute for Theoretical Physics, Cologne University, enables scientific travel of a talented PhD or Master student.
The award ceremony will be held on May 26th 2023
Thanks to this grant, Chahat will attend the conference “Molecular Membrane Biology - Function of Proteins and Lipids at Organelle Membranes in Health and Disease” organized by Gordon Research Conference, where she will also have the pleasure to give a talk about the recent findings of her doctoral work.
Congratulation Chahat!
She did it again! Lena wins the FEBS Anniversary Prize 2023
FEBS and GBM are pleased to announce that this year’s recipients of a FEBS Anniversary Prize are Ville Kaila (Stockholm University, Sweden) and Lena Pernas (Max Planck Institute for Biology of Ageing, Germany).
The FEBS Anniversary Prize of the Gesellschaft für Biochemie und Molekularbiologie (GBM) is awarded for outstanding achievements in the field of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology or related sciences by the upcoming generation of senior scientists.
Visit the FEBS 47th Congress to listen to Lena’s talk on “Organelle and metabolic dynamics of the host–pathogen interaction” during the Host–microbial interactions symposium on 11 July 2023!
Congrats Lena!
Mentor once again: Bruna is now part of the ARTEMIS program
The ARTEMIS (African Research Talents Experiencing Mentoring In Science) program is aimed at interested mentees (students, graduates or doctoral candidates) at African universities and research institutes who are looking for advice on how to advance their studies or scientific career.
Exchange experiences, learn from others, make contacts, build a network, develop career prospects. This is what the Max Planck Society's mentorship program offers to mentors at MPIs and mentees at African universities and research institutions.
Thanks to this program, Bruna is given the opportunity to improve her leadership and communication skills, develop her intercultural competence and make an important contribution to the advancement of a junior scientists in Africa. All the best for this new exciting experience Bruna!
