Menet Lab
Department of Biology, Texas A&M University
News Archive






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July 2026: The lab just release a new paper: "mTOR signaling contributes to system-driven rhythmic gene expression in mouse liver". Science Advances. DOI:10.1126/sciadv.aec0131
July 2026: The Menet Lab collaborated with the Jiang Lab to publish “Single-cell Multiomic and Spatiotemporal Dissection of the Liver Circadian Clock.” DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/gpbjnl/qzag050
July 2026: Chanté won the Roozbeh Arienpour Award for Excellence in Research from the Department of Biology. Congrats Chanté!
June 2026: Abhinav joins the lab as a visiting scholar. Welcome Abhinav!
May 2026: Chanté received the American Physiological society excellence award for graduate students and postdoctoral trainees from the SRBR. Bravo Chanté!
May 2026: Jerome, Chanté, Wen and Audrey attended the 2026 SRBR at Amelia Island, Florida.
May 2026: Chanté and Wen will also present their work (posters) at the SRBR! Bravo Chanté et Wen!
May 2026: Audrey has been selected to give a talk for the CircadiOmics Slide Session at SRBR. Bravo Audrey!
April 2026: Chanté received the Doctoral student research, travel and professional development award from the College of Art and Sciences. Bravo Chanté!
March 2026: Audrey received a travel award from the Texas A&M Office of Postdoctoral Affairs and the Texas A&M Postdoctoral Association to attend the Society for Research on Biological Rhythms 2026 Biennial Conference (SRBR). Bravo Audrey!
March 2026: Chanté received the SRBR Merit Award. Bravo Chanté!
March 2026: Audrey went to present her poster at the 6th RNA metabolism in neurological disease conference 2026, at San Diego. Congrats Audrey!
February 2026: Xinyu continues her academic journey as a postdoctoral scholar at Stanford University. We wish you all the best, Xinyu!
January 2026: Wen passed his prelim and is now a PhD candidate. Bravo Wen!
January 2026: Chanté won First place best oral presentation and Audrey First place best postdoctoral poster award at the SPRC. Bravo Chanté and Audrey!
January 2026: Chanté has been selected to give a talk at the Student/Postdoc Research Conference (SPRC) 2026. Audrey will also present a poster. Congrats Chanté and Audrey!
December 2025: Xinyu graduation!
December 2025: Audrey won the Second place best postdoctoral poster award at the Society for Neuroscience annual meeting. Bravo, Audrey!
December 2025: Audrey will present her poster at The Society for Neuroscience at Texas A&M Fall Symposium 2025. Congrats Audrey!
November 2025: Jerome and Xinyu published a Perspective in FEBS Letters titled “Interplay between circadian and other transcription factors - Implications for cycling transcriptome reprogramming.” DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/1873-3468.70232
November 2025: Audrey presented her work (poster) at the 2025 Genome Editing Symposium. Congrats Audrey!
November 2025: Chanté won the best poster award at the TSCBM! Bravo Chanté!
November 2025: Both Chanté and Audrey have been selected to present their work (data blitz + posters) at TSCBM. Congrats Chanté and Audrey!
November 2025: All the Menet lab will be attending the 2025 Texas society for circadian biology & medicine meeting (TSCBM) at Dallas!
November 2025: Chanté and Audrey both were awarded for their poster presentations at the 8th Bioinformatics Symposium. Bravo Chanté and Audrey!
November 2025: Chanté and Audrey will both present a poster at the 8th Bioinformatics Symposium. Congrats Chanté and Audrey!
October 2025: Chanté won the first best poster award at the 2025 A. I. Scott Medal Symposium. Bravo Chanté!
October 2025: Chanté and Audrey will both present a poster at the 2025 A. I. Scott Medal Symposium. Congrats Chanté and Audrey!
October 2025: Xinyu successfully defended her Ph.D. Congrats Xinyu!
September 2025: Audrey presented a poster at the Texas A&M University 9th Annual Postdoctoral Research Symposium. Congrats Audrey!
August 2025: Danny continues her professional journey as a PhD student at Texas A&M University. We wish you all the best, Danny!
January 2025: Audrey has been selected for the data blitz and presented a poster at the Student/Postdoc Research Conference. Congrats Audrey!
August 2024: Shivani continues her professional journey as a medical student at The George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences. We wish you all the best, Shivani!
May 2024: Jerome, Xinyu, Chanté, Audrey, Wen and Garima attended the 2024 SRBR meeting at San Juan, Puerto Rico. Xinyu presented her work. Bravo Xinyu!
March 2024: Xinyu has been selected to present her thesis work at the upcoming 2024 SRBR meeting. Congrats Xinyu!
April 2024: Neha Ahuja joins the lab for her Post Doc. Welcome Neha!
January 2024: Chieh-Wen joins the lab for his Ph.D. Welcome Chieh-Wen!
January 2024: Garima joins the lab for her Ph.D. Welcome Garima!
December 2023: Danny joins the lab as a Research Associate. Welcome Danny!
September 2023: Shivani joins the lab as a Research Assistant. Welcome Shivani!
September 2023: Chanté passed her prelim and is now a PhD candidate. Bravo Chanté!
August 2023: Aishwarya continues her academic journey as a postdoctoral scholar at the Knight Cancer Institute, Oregon Health & Science University. We wish you all the best, Aishwarya!
February 2023: Aishwarya successfully defended her Ph.D. Congrats Aishwarya!
February 2023: Xinyu and Chanté presented their work at SPRC. Congrats Xinyu and Chanté!
December 2022: Aishwarya presents at TSCBM 2022. Congrats Aishwarya!
November 2022: Xinyu passed her prelim and is now a PhD candidate. Bravo Xinyu!
July 2022: Audrey Jacq joins the lab as a Post-Doc. Welcome Audrey!
May 2022: All the lab will attend the SRBR 2024 in Florida.
February 2022: Aish, Xinyu and Chanté presented the lab work. Congrats all!
December 2021: Chanté Guy joins the lab for her Ph.D. Welcome Chanté!
October 2021: Xinyu presents her exciting new data at our department SPRC meeting.
January 2021: This was long due... The paper of Alexandra on the effects of shift work in rat heart is finally deposited in Biorxiv.
December 2020: Ben's latest paper on how alternative polyadenylation regulates rhythmic gene expression has been deposited to Biorxiv.
December 2020: Xinyu Nie joins the lab for her Ph.D. Welcome Xinyu!!
June 2020: Ben wins the Aggieland RNA Salon Research Award! Congrats Ben!!
February 2020: Ben successfully defended his Ph.D. Congrats Ben!
October 2019: Ben presented at the TAMU Student/Postdoc Research Conference (SPRC) 2019 meeting. Great talk on his new project!
September 2019: Josh successfully defended his Ph.D. Congrats Josh!
January 2019: Aishwarya Sahasrabudhe joins the lab for her Ph.D.!!
October 2018: Alexandra successfully defended her Ph.D. Congrats Alex!
May 2018: Ben presented his research at the SRBR 2018 meeting. Alex, Josh, and Ben all presented posters. Patrick and Shanny graduated from A&M.
April 2018: Ben presented at the weekly Biology seminar. Josh presented his research at the TSCBM 2018 meeting.
February 2018: Ben gave a talk at the Genetics Recruitment Symposium. Alex presented a poster and won the People's Choice Award for best poster.
January 2018: Alex's first paper is published in PloS Genetics!
December 2017: Brooke graduated from A&M.
November 2017: Collin presented at the weekly Genetics and Genomics seminar.
September 2017: Josh presented at the TAMU Student/Postdoc Research Conference (SPRC) 2017 meeting. Ben and Alex presented posters. Alex won the award for Best Post-Prelim Poster.
August 2017: Alex presented at the Genetics Retreat at La Torretta and won the 2nd place award for Best Oral Presentation.
March 2017: The lab moved to the Biological Sciences Building West (BSBW), room 301.
February 2017: Collin joined the lab.
September 2016: Alex presented at the TAMU Student/Postdoc Research Conference (SPRC) 2016 meeting. Josh won the award for Best Poster Presentation at the TAMU SPRC 2016. Aldrin joined the lab as a rotation student.
May 2016: Josh presented at the Society for Research on Biological Rhythms (SRBR) 2016 meeting. Jessica and Courtney graduated from A&M.
April 2016: Alex presented at the Texas Society for Circadian Biology and Medicine (TSCBM) 2016 meeting. Alex won 2nd place for Best Oral Presentation ($100).
January 2016: Ben joined the lab
September 2015: Courtney joined the lab.
September 2015: Josh won the award for Best Poster Presentation at the TAMU SPRC 2015.
April 2015: Alex won 2nd place award for Best Poster Presentation ($200) at the TAMU Genetics Graduate Student Spring Symposium.
April 2015: Josh presented at ENG-LIFE 2015.
December 2014: Joshua joined the lab.
August 2014: Helene is visiting us from France.
June 2014: Nelly joined the lab as a research assistant.
May 2014: Rachel joined the lab.
March 2014: Jessica joined the lab.
October 2013: Alexandra joined the lab. Welcome the labs first graduate student!
September 2013: A new life starts! The Menet lab opens in the ILSB at Texas A&M University, Department of Biology.