September 2023. Eshagh Dorafshan Esfahani joined the lab as a KBC Kempe Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow.  He will be working on a shared project between our lab and Ludvig Lizana's group. 

September 2023. Baptiste Bogard joined the lab as an ‘Excellence of Choice’ Postdoctoral Fellow.  He will be working on a shared project between our lab and Teresa Frisan's group. 

May 2023. Sandhya has defended her thesis 'Dissecting gene expression regulation in mouse embryonic stem cells'. Congratulations, Dr. Malla! We are very proud of you! 

April 2023. Cyrinne is now Postdoctoral fellow at NIH, USA. 

April 2023. Sandhya has nailed her thesis in the Library of the University. Congratulations, Sandhya for all your efforts and hard-work. Well deserved moment of celebration! We welcome everyone to Sandhya's thesis defense on the 12th of May. 

April 2023. We welcomed Sandra Blanco PhD, Group leader at the Cancer Research Centre in Salamanca, Spain, to Umeå. Sandra presented her group's work on tRNA modifications within the National and International Seminar Series (NISS), here at Umeå University. We thank Sandra for the wonderful talk and very fruitful inputs on our ongoing research projects.

February 2023.  Our paper METTL3 regulates breast cancer-associated alternative splicing switches is now published in Oncogene.

January 2023. Oncogene accepted for publication our manuscript METTL3 regulates breast cancer-associated alternative splicing switches. 

December 2022. Congratulations, Cyrinne for your excellent thesis defense!!! We are proud of you, Dr. Achour! 
November 2022. We are approaching the greatest event of the year for Aguilo's Lab, Cyrinne's thesis defense. Following Swedish tradition, Cyrinne nailed her thesis in the University library. An event full of laughter and joy. We welcome everyone to join Cyrinne's defense on the 13th of December.
November 2022. We are happy and grateful that Cancerfonden will support our research for the following 3 years. Congratulations to Xisca and to all the lab members involved in writing the proposal. 
November 2022. We are happy to announce that the lab has received funding for the next 4 years through the VR grant. Congratulations to Xisca for writing a great proposal and to all the people in the lab who have contributed with their results and ideas to the proposal! 
September 2022. Congratulation to Xisca for becoming an Associate Editor of NAR Cancer Journal! 
August 2022. Congratulation to Xisca for becoming an Associate professor! 
June 2022. Congratulation to Xisca for becoming a docent! 
May 2022. Xisca presented at SCC Seminars held by Lund University. 
January 2022. The first paper of Aguilo's lab is published in EMBO - ZFP207 sustains pluripotency by coordinating OCT4 stability, alternative splicing and RNA export. Congratulations to Sandhya, Dev, and the rest of the team who worked on this paper. 
December 2021. We are happy to have contributed to the most recent update of MODOMICS database - MODOMICS: a database of RNA modification pathways. 2021 update. We are grateful to our collaborators for this opportunity.  
November 2021. Our review paper - LSD1: Expanding functions in stem cells and differentiation was published. Congratulations to Carlos and Sandhya for their work! 
October 2021. Congratulations to Paula for her Midterm Seminar! 
October 2021. We welcome Marga as a new Ph.D. in our lab! 
September 2021. Our review paper - Regulatory roles of RNA modifications in breast cancer was published. Congratulations to Kanchan and Paula for their work. 
July 2021. Congratulations to Carlos for obtaining a Ph.D position in Switzerland! Best of luck! It was a pleasure working with you! 
March 2021. Congratulations to Ghazala for a new position in the UK. Best of luck! It was a pleasure working with you! 
January 2021. Aguilo's lab has moved to the Molecular Biology department.
December 2020. We are delighted to announce that our collaborative work within the Epitran Network was published in a comprehensive review paper - A mark of disease: How mRNA modifications shape genetic and acquired pathologies. Congratulations to Paula and to all our collaborators for contributing to this piece.
October 2020. Congratulations to Cyrinne for her Midterm Seminar! 
October 2020. We welcome Kanchan as a new Post-doc in our lab! 
February 2020. Congratulations to Sandhya for her Midterm Seminar! 
November 2019. Congratulations to Sandhya for her Kempe Fellowship!
November 2019. Congratulation to Cyrinne for her book chapter on lncRNA and breast cancer
November 2019. We are so happy to share that Cancerfonden supported our research on RNA modifications and breast cancer.
October 2019. Congratulations to Dario on a new position in Gothenburg. Best of luck! It was a pleasure working with you! 
September 2019. We welcome Paula as a new Ph.D. in our lab!
Save the dates: Next Epichrom meeting will be held in Umeå in February-March 2020.
October 2019. We have been granted the second RNA salon grant by the RNA society for the Epicon retreats. For more information: https://www.rnasociety.org/rna-salons/
May 2019. We have been granted the VR Conference grant for the 3rd meeting of the RNA Society of Sweden.
April 2019. Congrats Cyrinne for your RNA Society travel award!
March 2019. We welcome Ghazala as a new Post-doc in our lab!
October 2018. Our review paper Steering pluripotency and differentiation with N6-methyladenosine RNA modification will be published in BBA - Gene Regulatory Mechanisms soon. Congratulations to Sandhya and Dario for their work! 
October 2018. EpiCoN is granted the RNA salon grant by the RNA society. For more information: https://www.rnasociety.org/rna-salons/
June 2018. Our review paper Long non-coding RNA and Polycomb: an intricate partnership in cancer biology was published. Congratulation to Cyrinne for her work! 
May 2018. We welcome Dev as a new Post-doc in our lab! 
September 2017. We welcome Dario as a new Post-doc in our lab! 
September 2017. We welcome Cyrinne and Sandhya who are starting their Ph.D. studies in Aguilo's lab!