April 2025: Congratulations Lucas (NSERC USRA), Mason (FoS SURA) and Sanuda (FoS SURA) for securing the Research Awards...Well Done...!!!

February 2025: Congrtulations Sushmitha for winning Biochemistry Teaching Assistant Excellence Award...Well Done...!!!

December 2024: Zaid and Yuguan's paper on piRNAs in gene regulation and stem cells and disease was accepted for publication in Frontier in Cell and Developmental Biology...Congratulations Zaid and Yuguan...!!!

September 2024: One more good news...Arezou secured funding from the Janeway Children's Hospital Foundation to pursue her research on heat shock proteins...Congratulations Arezou...!!!

August 2024: We got lucky this year...Our grant application was approved for funding by the Cancer Research Society Canada...Thank you CRS...!!!

March 2024: Claire got the NSERC Undergraduate Science Research Award, for the 2nd time, to continue her project work in the lab during Summer 2024. Congratulations Claire...!!!

March 2024: Claire's paper on the Regulatory role of RNA-binding proteins in microRNA biogenesis was accepted for publication in Frontier in Molecular Biosciences...Congratulations Clarie...!!!

September 2023: Zaid and Yuguan joined the lab to pursue their graduate studies. Welcome to Kakumani Lab, Zaid and Yuguan...!!!

August 2023: This August has been good for our lab. Just heard, that Claire got the Janeway Research Foundation Trainee Award for Undergraduate...Congratulations Claire...!!! and Thank you Janeway for your support.

August 2023: Here comes another...I was just notified of funding for our grant to study CSDE1's involvement in miRNA processing and function in leukemia development...Thank you Janeway Research Foundation...!!!

August 2023: It is official...We have been awarded an Operating Grant from the Cancer Research Society (CRS) to elucidate mechanisms employed by RBPs in miRNA biogenesis...Thank you CRS...!!!

August 2023: Claire won the First prize in poster presentations during the 13th Annual Biochemistry Symposium at Memorial University. Congratulations...!!!

July 2023: We just got the decision. Our manuscript, CSDE1 promotes miR-451 biogenesis, now accepted for publication in Nucleic Acids Research...!!! Congratulations to Sushmitha, Grace, Mia and all the other co-authors who made this possible...!!!

June 2023: Arezou joined our lab to pursue her MSc studies. Welcome to the lab, Arezou...!!!

April 2023: It's official...!!! Claire's awarded with the prestigious NSERC Science Undergraduate Research Award to continue her project work in the lab during Summer 2023. Congratulations Claire...!!!

July 2022: As they say, "Better late than never"...!!! Sushmitha joined the lab (in June) to pursue her PhD studies. Welcome to Kakumani Lab, Sushmitha...!!!

April 2022: The First paper from our lab entitled, "AGO-RBP crosstalk on target mRNAs: Implications in miRNA-guided gene silencing and cancer" got accepted in the journal, Translational Oncology - part of Elsevier's Oncology Journal Network. 

April 2022: Awarded the NSERC Discovery Grant (2022-2027) and Discovery Launch Supplement (2022-2023) as an Early Career Researcher (ECR).

Title: PIWI-interacting RNA (piRNA)-guided somatic gene regulation in cell homeostasis and differentiation.

January 2022: Kakumani Lab is open.

October 2021: Movied into the Office and Lab space in the brand new Core Science Facility of the Faculty of Science, Memorial University.

July 2021: Dr. Kakumani joined Dept. of Biochemistry as an Assistant Professor (Tenure-track).