Spring 2025 - Deepa’s paper highlighting her work to define the impact of copper on the huntingtin protein was published in Biochemistry! Congratulations, Deepa! This paper not only elucidates properties of the copper (oxidation state, stoichiometry), but also reveals metal-dependent oligomerization trends in non-pathological huntingtin protein.
Spring 2025 - Prajakta and Deepa were selected to receive SoFL-ACS travel awards to support their travel and attendance at the Spring 2025 meeting of the American Chemical Society. They both presented their research in the format of oral presentations!
Spring 2025: Deepa is awarded the ACS Division of Inorganic Chemistry (DIC) Travel award.
Spring 2025 - Kassidy and Opeyemi presented their research at the Seventh Annual Graduate + Postdoctoral Research Symposium held at the University of Miami on March 25, 2025.
Spring 2025: Kassidy was named runner up in the Physical Sciences and Engineering category for his poster presentation at the Seventh Annual Graduate + Postdoctoral Research Symposium! Congratulations Kassidy! More information on the symposium can be found here.
Spring 2025: Kassidy was named 2nd runner up for his poster presentation at the 2025 Conference of Florida Graduate Schools (CFGS) that took place on April 7–8 at Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton.
Spring 2025: Deepa was awarded one of the Chemistry Department’s 2025 Stanley, Sam, & Clara Schrieber Scholarships to support her research over the summer. Congratulations, Deepa!
Spring 2024: Prajakta's paper highlighting her work to define key factors that influence PGRMC1 homodimerization was published in Biochemistry! Congratulations, Prajakta!
Spring 2024: Deepa received the 2024 Dean’s Summer Research Fellowship to pursue her studies on huntingtin protein variants.
Spring 2024: Deepa received the "Graduate TA Award 2024" that is award for outstanding performance as a Teaching Assistant. Congratulations on a job well done, Deepa!
Spring 2024 - The Meier Lab is named the Coral Gables Campus “Lab of the Year” by University of Miami Biosafety!
Nice job everyone!
Spring 2024 - Opeyemi Isaac joins the Meier Lab – Welcome Ope!
Spring 2024 - Our paper with Prof. Zhai’s Lab entitled, “Copper enhances aggregational toxicity of mutant huntingtin in a Drosophila model of Huntington's Disease” was published in BBA – Molecular Basis of Disease! Check it out here!
Spring 2023 – Congratulations to graduate student Deepa Neupane on receiving the top prize at the 2023 Graduate + Postdoctoral Research Symposium, Physical Sciences & Engineering Division for her poster presentation titled, “Using Spectroscopy and Biochemical Tools to Define the Role of Copper in Promoting the Aggregation of Huntingtin Protein with Non-Pathogenic Expansion”. Way to go Deepa!
Click here for the Symposium Recap
Spring 2023 – Dr. Meier receives the One-Time Funding Opportunity for Junior Faculty award for her work to define the role of Cys-rich regions in huntingtin protein with non-pathogenic polyQ expansions.
Dr. Meier is highlighted in the Spring CTSI Newsletter for her work on Huntington’s Disease: https://miamictsi.org/uncategorized/ctsi-kl2-scholar-looks-beyond-basic-science-to-advance-huntingtons-disease-research/
Dr. Meier receives the NSF CAREER award for her work to spectroscopically investigate protein-protein interactions in iron-containing metalloproteins and metalloenzymes using a metal-centric spectroscopy approach. Dr. Meier’s research will study the interactions involving two different proteins that contain iron by using methods that follow specifically the chemical properties of this metal at the protein-protein interaction surface. It is anticipated that the proposed studies will provide spectroscopically informed insight that is currently lacking but is required for “bottom-up” design of peptidomimetics to modulate and report on PPIs.
Summer 2021 – Prajakta Badve is named one of three graduate students to receive a 2021 Sam and Clara Schreiber Chemistry Summer Research Award. Congratulations Prajakta!
Spring 2021 – Dr. Meier is named a Center for Translational Research Institute KL2 Awardee! http://miamictsi.org/news/2020/12/ctsi-announces-new-cohort-of-kl2-awardees-for-fy21
Winter 2020 – Graduate student Kassidy Rodriguez officially joins the group. Welcome to the Meier Lab, Kassidy!
Fall 2020 – The Meier Lab welcomes undergraduate researcher Alfred Shomar to the group. Alfred will be joining the MDR subgroup.
Spring 2020 – Graduate students Deepa Neupane and Prajakta Badve join the group. Welcome Deepa and Prajakta!
Spring 2020 – Dr. Meier is named a Frost Junior Fellow! https://www.as.miami.edu/academics/faculty-research-spotlight/index.html
Spring 2020 – The Meier Lab welcomes undergraduate researcher Elliott Cleven to the group. Elliott will be joining the MDR subgroup.
