What a great day I had today with trainees and faculty in the Chemistry and Biochemistry department ⁦UMBC⁩! My thanks to Aaron Smith and Alex Paredes, ⁦HHMI⁩ Gilliam Fellow, for the invitation and for being such gracious hosts!

Registration is now open for IBBR's Second Biennial Structural Biology Day on Wednesday, May 7, 2025 at our facility in Rockville, Maryland. We hope to see you there! go.umd.edu/ibbrsbd25

Excited to run this workshop for ClubSciWri Register at docs.google.com/forms/d/18jdrC…

Our talented undergraduate, Megan, presenting her research at UMBC’s Undergraduate Research and Creative Achievement Day (URCAD)! Lab is proud of you, Megan! #UMBC UMBC Chemistry #RNA The Koirala Lab

Are RNA 3D models accurate enough to be biologically useful? #CASP16 experimentalists say: not so much. doi.org/10.1101/2025.0… Thanks for leading this paper @rachaelkretsch Andriy Kryshtafovych! 1/2

Our #RNA multimer paper out now in @nature! #cryoEM of 2 distinct nanocages GOLLD and ROOL and membrane-associated OLE. Multimers at ultra-low concentrations, special covariance for cross-molecule kissing loops, and speculation on function nature.com/articles/s4158…. 1/2

If you want to unfold the same molecule through multiple directions, DNA nanoswitch caliper is the way to go!

What a rewarding day for the Koirala Lab today! Graduate student, Manju Ojha, gave an excellent talk at FCBIS, and received outstanding biochemistry research award from CNMS at UMBC. Two undergraduates, Megan and Jason, received outstanding research awards! Congratulations!!

I am honored and deeply grateful to the College of Natural and Mathematical Sciences, UMBC for selecting me as the recipient of the Robert F. Steiner Award for Outstanding Biochemistry Graduate Student in the Department of Chemistry. The Koirala Lab

How to find fantastic new #RNAs? The J2 antibody is the gold standard to detect, map & enrich dsRNAs. Co-led by Bou-Nader lab, Kevin Juma, Ankur Bothra & Steve Leppla’s lab, we visualize how J2 recognizes dsRNA and define its epitope, specificity & bias. doi.org/10.1101/2025.0….

The first PhD from The Koirala Lab!! Congratulations Dr. Naba Krishna Das! The lab is proud of you and your accomplishments. Wish you all the best for future endeavors!

Congrats to Naba Krishna Das for defending his doctoral thesis and being the first one from the The Koirala Lab !

It’s time to change the title from tenure-track assistant professor to tenured associate professor! Thanks to students, mentors, family, colleagues and friends for their help and support. I am inspired and motivated to serve the science more than ever!

It's fascinating to see that so many people are obsessed with that one biomolecule! #RNA25 The RNA Society

A great day of RNA Society Meeting 2025 at San Diego #RNA The RNA Society! Our graduate student Naba Krishna Das Naba Krishna Das presenting his research to expert audiences #UMBC UMBC Chemistry!

It was very rewarding meeting at RNA Society Meeting #RNA25 The RNA Society. Our awesome graduate student Hasan Banna Hasan Al Banna gave an amazing talk about new RNA imaging tools. Meeting colleagues, students, postdocs and some non-RNA (proteins) friends as well was a great experience!

haven't posted in a while but happy to share the news I've received the Beckman Young Investigator award 🥳 grateful for the hard work of my team pushing the barriers of understanding #Rloop biology and for this recognition🧬

New paper alert! Congratulations to Manju Ojha et al. We have shown how structural plasticity of RRE modulates nuclear export of HIV -1 RNAs. Mutation-driven RRE stem-loop II conformational change induces HIV-1 nuclear export dysfunction academic.oup.com/nar/article/53…

I am thrilled to share that our latest research article focusing on the structural plasticity of HIV-1 RRE has been published . I would like to thank my supervisor, co-authors and collaborators. The Koirala Lab academic.oup.com/nar/article/53…

Our lab in UMBC news! Awesome story about graduate-undergraduate collaboration and mentorship! UMBC’s Koirala Lab celebrates students’ award-winning RNA research and peer mentorship umbc.edu/stories/studen…