News

Nicole and Melissa’s manuscript was posted on bioRxiv today. Congratulations to everyone in the lab who contributed!

We are celebrating: Yasemin’s tenure was approved! Congratulations Dr. Sancak

The Sancak Lab welcomes our newest rotation student Sydney Klucas.

Yasemin travels to Japan to present her work as part of an academic exchange between sister cities - Seattle and Kobe.

Nicole presents her research on calcium-regulated metabolism changes in fibrolamellar carcinoma to the Mitochondria and Metabolism Interest Group (MMIG) at South Lake Union.

Our paper in collaboration with the Schweppe lab is up on bioRxiv! Congratulations Tim and Yasemin!

George presents his work on developing a novel method for characterizing distinct populations of mitochondria within the cell to the Seattle Organelle Biology Interest Group (SOBIG)

Yasemin and Tim attend the Mitochondria Symposium at UCLA. Tim comes home with the first place prize for his poster!

Yasemin presents to the Seattle Organelle Biology Interest Group (SOBIG) and receives positive feedback on our most recent manuscript identifying novel calcium-interacting proteins.

The Sancak Lab says goodbye to our wonderful Research Assistants Hayden and Albert.

Albert is spending a year on a study abroad program in Japan, and Hayden is beginning the UW’s Molecular & Cellular Biology PhD program.

The Sancak lab gains two new research assistants! Francisco Miralles and Jane Chea have graduated, and we are excited that they have chosen to stay at UW as members of our lab.

Yasemin and Tim’s collaboration with the Chaudhuri Lab was published today in Nature Communications. Congratulations all!

Melissa’s National Research Service Award (NRSA) grant application on understanding the role and regulation of MCU in mitochondrial stress has been funded by the NIH. Congratulations Melissa!

More exciting news: Tim was chosen to receive a “NK and Irene Cheung Family Scholar” scholarship for the upcoming Keystone Symposium meeting “Mitochondrial Biochemistry in Health and Disease” in Breckenridge, CO!

Give a big round of applause to Hayden for being awarded the Mary Gates Research Scholarship. Way to go, Hayden!

Please join us in welcoming our most recent lab member, George Otto. He joins us as a postdoc from UC Berkeley. Welcome, George!

Sancak Lab welcomes our newest undergraduate research assistants Mulan Zhu (officially joined 9/30/21) and Morgan Alonso to the team and we couldn’t be happier. Welcome Mulan and Morgan!

Sancak Lab continues to grow! We are pleased to welcome Albert Kwong as our newest undergraduate research assistant.

We’re excited to announce Nicole Marsh has joined our lab as our fourth graduate student. Welcome, Nicole!

After a month-long summer rotation in our lab Hayden Gizinski is officially joining as our latest undergrad research assistant and we couldn’t be happier!

Exciting things continue to happen in the Sancak Lab. . . Aaron Long officially joins the lab as our third graduate student. Welcome Aaron!

We are so happy and excited to announce that we are a part of the Pew Biomedical Scholars family! Thank you Pew Charitable Trusts for supporting our research!

It is with great pride we announce that our amazing “Wundergrad” Ethan, has been awarded the Mary Gates Research Scholarship!!

It’s official, Tim passed his oral general exam. Congratulations Tim!

We are excited for Sarah Malik to start her fall rotation on Monday. Welcome Sarah!

We are proud to announce that we are the recipient of a New Innovator Award through the National Institutes of Health 2020 High-Risk, High Reward research program! Read more about us in the UW Medicine Newsroom.

We welcome fall rotation student Aaron Long!

Sancak Lab turns three!

Tim passed the written portion of his general exam. We knew you could do it Tim!

We have officially published our first paper. Way to go Melissa and the rest of the Sancak team!

Shout out to Tim for work done during his tenure in the Zweifel Lab, check out his publication here. Congrats Tim!

Ameena received the Mary Gates Research Scholarship!

Welcome to Diana our newest undergraduate research assistant and Anthony and Madeline our winter quarter rotation students!

Welcome Ameena and Ethan! These two undergraduate research assistants are the newest additions to our lab.

Tim Locke joins the lab as the fall quarter rotation student. Welcome Tim!