Swapnil Sonkusare appointed as a Pinn Scholar- Congratulations!

7/3/2025

Congratulations to Dr. Swapnil Sonkusare who has been appointed as a Pinn Scholar, class of 2025 The Pinn Scholars program is named in honor of the extraordinary career of Vivian…

Seham Ebrahim, Bechara Kachar (NIH), and Michael Purdy’s major collaborative breakthrough powered by MEMC

6/6/2025

New Organelle Discovered: UVA and NIH Researchers Identify ‘Hemifusomes’ as a Key to Cellular Recycling In a groundbreaking study published in Nature Communications, researchers from UVA's Center for Membrane &…

Title: Students of the Bone Eaters: Dissection of cell-cell fusion mechanisms towards targeted skeletal therapeutics

5/19/2025

Seminar Date: Monday, May 19, 2025 | Seminar Time: 12:00 p.m.

Congratulations to Seham Ebrahim, Awarded $2 Million NIH-R35 Maximizing Investigators’ Research Award

5/8/2025

Seham Ebrahim, PhD, Earns $2 Million NIH-R35 Maximizing Investigators’ Research Award May 6, 2025 by jta6n@virginia.edu Seham Ebrahim, PhD Seham Ebrahim, PhD, an assistant professor in the Center for Membrane…

Levental lab publishes ground-breaking paper in Cell on lipid and cholesterol asymmetry in cell membranes.

4/10/2025

This important paper published in Cell  challenges a major assumption in cell biology by showing that lipid bilayers can have drastically different phospholipid abundances between their two leaflets. This lipid…

Title : Cellular Signaling by Cholesterol

4/7/2025

Seminar Date: Monday, April 7, 2025 | Seminar Time: 12:00 p.m.

Title: Cholesterol as a Mediator of Neuroinflammation and Alzheimer’s Disease

3/17/2025

Seminar Date: Monday, March 17, 2025 | Seminar Time: 12:00 p.m.

Title: Resolving structure and function in the lipid regulation of receptor tyrosine kinases

3/10/2025

Seminar Date: Monday, March 10, 2025 | Seminar Time: 12:00 p.m.