News

  • Xuexin just had his paper on Calcium-dependent Inactivation of ORAI1 just accepted in Nature Communications! So proud of your hardwork Xuexin!
  • Scott Emrich’s and Ryan Yoast’s research paper on STIM2 was published in JBC. Congrats guys! You’re quite a Dream Team!
  • Check out our recent reviews: Trayambak’s on Mitochondrial Calcium in Pharmacology and Therapeutics, Marty’s on smooth muscle remodeling and cardiovascular disease in Cell Calcium, and another on Calcium signaling in T cells in Nature Reviews Immunology.
  • Congrats to Trayambak Pathak for being awarded an American Heart Fellowship that studies the role of ORAI3 in Obesity!
  • Martin Johnson was awarded the 2018 Patrick G. Quinn Award for Outstanding Performance by a Post-Comprehensive Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of Cellular and Molecular Physiology.
  • All of Mo’s current graduate students (Scott Emrich, Martin Johnson, and Ryan Yoast) were awarded the 2018 Howard Morgan Travel Award from the Department of Cellular and Molecular Physiology at Penn State College of Medicine. They used their awards to travel to the FASEB Science Research Conference on “Calcium and Cell Function.”
  • Mohamed Trebak and Yubin Zhou (UT houston) elected chairs (2022; vice chairs 2020) of the FASEB Science Research Conference on “Calcium and Cell Function” http://faseb.org/src/micro/site/Calcium/Home.aspx
  • Upcoming book on smooth muscle edited by Mohamed Trebak & Scott Earley (U Nevada Reno): https://www.crcpress.com/Signal-Transduction-and-Smooth-Muscle/Trebak-Earley/p/book/9781498774222
  • Céline Delierneux joined the lab in July 2017 as a postdoctoral fellow. Céline received her PhD from the University of Liege, Belgium (Mo’s alma matter)
  • Two Biomedical Sciences (BMS) PhD students, Ryan Yoast and Scott Emrich officially joined the lab in July 2017
  • Alex Caplan joined the lab in June 2017 as a research Technician. Alex graduated from West Chester University. His goal is to acquire research experience and pursue medical school studies
  • The lab has moved to newly renovated space on the 4th floor in room C4752. Mo’s office remains in C4710C
  • Mo will give a talk at the 2017  Federation of European Physiological Societies (FEPS) Meeting that will take place in Vienna, Austria between September 13-15, 2017.
  • Along with Anant Parekh (chair) and Gary Bird (co-vice chair), Mo is a co-organizer of the 2017 Gordon Research Conference on Calcium signaling that will take place in Barga (near Lucca) in Tuscany, Italy on June 18-23, 2017. See the exciting program on the GRC website.
  • The Trebak laboratory celebrates its 10 year anniversary in 2017!!!
  • Read the recent review article in collaboration with Dr. Nadine Hempel published in Cell Calcium on the crosstalk between calcium and reactive oxygen species signaling networks in cancer
  • Xuexin’s paper on SOCE regulation by mitochondrial NCLX in collaoration with Tsipi Ben Kasus in Israel Sekler’s lab (Ben-Gurion University) was accepted in the EMBO J. Congrats Xuexin and Tsipi!
  • Judith’s paper on calcium signaling and endothelial permeability was accepted in the JBC. Read the full article on the JBC website. Congrats Judith!
  • The Trebak laboratory has moved to Penn State University College of Medicine since April, 2015.