Lab News

April 2025

Congratulations to Yangbo Xiao! Yangbo successfully defended her thesis, “Understanding the role of biomolecular condensates in circadian regulation,” on Friday, April 11, 2025.

April 2025

Congratulations to Ye Yuan! Ye successfully defended his thesis, “Unraveling Cellular Structure and Organization of Circadian Clocks,” on April 10, 2025.

December 2024

Congratulations to Qianqian Chen! Qianqian was awarded the Rackham International Student Fellowship.

March 2024

Congratulations to Ye Yuan! Ye was awarded the prestigious University of Michigan Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship.

September 2021

Michigan Medicine Health Lab features the Yadlapalli lab, “Movement of genes within cells helps organisms tell time: A study in fruit flies reveals the dance of key proteins behind circadian rhythms.”

June 2021

Our lab’s manuscript titled “Clock proteins regulate spatiotemporal organization of clock genes top control circadian rhythms” has been accepted for publication in PNAS. Congrats Yangbo and Ye!

June 2021

Swathi has been selected as a 2021 McKnight Scholar! Thank you to the McKnight foundation for supporting our work.

June 2021

Dunham Clark joins as an undergraduate researcher. Welcome Dunham!

February 2021

Swathi has been awarded the Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship in Neuroscience! Thank you to the Sloan foundation for funding our work.

Oct 2020

Our lab’s manuscript titled “Clock proteins regulate spatiotemporal organization of clock genes top control circadian rhythms” has been deposited in bioRxiv.

Jun 2020

Our lab’s first manuscript, based on a collaborative project with Dr. Reddy and Dr. Meyhofer, has been published in Nature Communications.

July 2019

Swathi received the R35 MIRA award from National Institute of General Medical Sciences!

July 2019

Ye Yuan (joint student with Reddy and Meyhofer labs) starts work in our lab. Welcome Ye!

June 2019

Swathi attended the Chronobiology GRC meeting in Castelldefels, Spain and presented a poster.

June 2019

Mariana has moved to Vanderbilt University to attend graduate school. Congratulations!

June 2019

Pratyush Agarwal joins the lab as a graduate student. Welcome Pratyush!

May 2019

Neeraj Soni joins the lab as our first postdoctoral fellow. Welcome Neeraj!

May 2019

Yangbo Xiao joins the lab as our first graduate student after a winter rotation. Welcome Yangbo!

March 2019

Chris Wilson, Neuroscience major from the University of Michigan, joins the lab as our first undergraduate researcher. Welcome Chris!

February 2019

Our lab has been awarded the additional support for the Mcubed 2.0 project. We thank the Endowment for the Basic Sciences at the University of Michigan for the support.

December 2018

Our team (Yadlapalli lab, Reddy lab, Meyhofer lab) has been awarded the Mcubed 3 grant. We are excited to continue our collaboration. 

August 2018

Mariana Jimenez joins the lab after graduating from Michigan as a Lab Manager/Research Technician. Welcome Mariana!

August 2018

Yadlapalli lab opens at the University of Michigan Cell and Developmental Biology Department.