• June, 2021: Mosta had the top-viewed poster/presentation at the American Diabetes Association conference: Pancreatic ß-Cell Specific Deletion of Complement 1q Like-3 Secreted Protein Improves Glucose Tolerance by Increasing Insulin Secretion.
• June, 2021: Navya Gullapalli, a UAB-CORD summer intern, started working on her project of Transfection with Saba Alsharif.
  
• May, 2021: Lab Party at the Bhatnagar household. 
  
• May, 2021: Tom1 Conditional Knockout mouse finally received after several months.
• April, 2021: Haifa Alsharif wins first place for the 3 minute scientific thesis project talk.
• March, 2021: Haifa Alsharif has her first committee meeting on March 12.
• November, 2020: Mostafizur has his first baby.
• October, 2020: Halloween Party 10/30 and Sushant Bhatnagar Birthday parties.
• August, 2020: Mostafizur, Postdoctoral Researcher joined the lab. We welcome you!
• July, 2020: Manuscripts as co-author published in Diabetes and Scientific Reports Journals! Thank you, Jeonga Kim for including us in these studies. 
• May, 2020: John Trombley and Asmita Pathak isolate islets for the first time.
• April, 2020: Asmita Pathak, Postdoctoral Researcher joined the lab.  We welcome you!
• March, 2020: John Trombley, Researcher V joined the lab. We welcome you!
• Janurary, 2020: Dr. Bhatnagar received Pittman award given to young researcher at UAB!
• Janurary, 2020: Dr. Sayak Bhatacharya got the Lecture position at Bradford University, VA. Congratulations and good luck at your new position!  
• Janurary, 2020: Haifa Alsharif Graduate student in the GGB Theme joined Bhatnagar Lab to pursue PhD. We are thrilled to have you in the lab!
• December, 2019: Collaborative work with Dr. Jeonga Kim Lab entitled, A small molecule stimulating thermogenesis reverses diet-induced obesity is in revision at the Diabetes Journal. 
• December, 2019: Collaborative work with Dr. Jeonga Kim Lab entilled, Metformin reduces saturated fatty acid-induced lipid accumulation and inflammatory response by restoration of autophagic flux in endothelial cells is in revision at the Scientific Reports Journal. 
• December, 2019: Dr. Bhatnagar at American Diabetes Association grant review panel. 
• November, 2019:  Dr. Bhatnagar gave presentation in the CDIB Department of UAB
• November, 2019: Dr. Bhatnagar gave presentation at the University of Pittsburgh. 
• August, 2019: Dr. Bhatnagar gave presentation at Endocrine Research Meeting, UAB.  
• August, 2019: Jaime Thompson, Undergraduate Student at UAB joined the lab! We welcome you!
• August, 2019: Jennifer Rodriguez-Orduno, Undergraduate Student at UAB joined the lab! We welcome you!
• August, 2019: Shujia Liu, MS (Biotechnology) at UAB joined the lab! We welcome you!
• August, 2019: Haifa Alsharif Graduate student in the GGB Theme started lab rotation in the Bhatnagar Lab 
• July, 2019: Manuscript published in Scientific Reports, entitled, "A gene expression network analysis of the pancreatic islets from lean and obese mice identifies complement 1q like-3 secreted protein as a regulator of β-cell function." Congratulations to all authors!
• May, 2019: First prize oral presentation award at the Midwest Islet Club conference! Congratulations Dr. Rajesh Gupta!
• May, 2019: Dr. Rajesh Gupta selected for Eliezer S. Award for the best Diabetes Research Abstract at the 10th Annual UAB Diabetes research day. Prize money- $300 
• April, 2019: Abstract accepted for oral presentation at UAB Diabetes research day, Birmingham, AL. 
• April, 2019: Abstract accepted for oral presentations at the Mid West Islet club conference, Michigan, Ann Harbor, MI
• April 5, 2019: RECEIVED NOTIFICATION FROM THE NIH THAT OUR  R01 TO STUDY THE ROLE OF TOMOSYN-2 IN INSULIN SECRETION AND GLUCOSE TOLERANCE WILL GET FUNDED!
• April 1, 2019: Dr. Sayak Bhatacharya, PhD started working as a postdoctoral researcher in the Bhatnagar Lab! We welcome you!
• March, 2019: ​Dr. Rajesh Gupta presented a poster at the ENDO SOCIETY meeting, New Orleans
• February, 2019: Peyton Elise Vanwinkle, BS a GBS graduate student at UAB started rotation in the Bhatnagar Lab. 
• January, 2019: ​Manuscript published as co-author in collaboration with Dr. Chad Hunter lab! Thanks Chad for including us in the study
• November 1, 2018: Haifa Alsharif is a second year MS Biotechnology student started internship in the Bhatnagar Lab! We welcome you!
• October, 2018: An A0 R01 grant application to study the role of tomosyn-2 in regulating glucose homeostasis was scored at 15percentile, NIDDK, NIH!! Hoping that it gets funded with the ESI status!! Fingers crossed!
• September, 2018: Manuscript accepted to the Journal of Biological Chemistry from the Bhatnagar lab! Great work all of the authors! Congratulations Dr. Rajesh Gupta for the 1stauthor manuscript.
• August, 2018: Manuscript submitted to the Scientific Reports! 1styear graduate student, Itika Arora is a first author on the manuscript!! 
• July, 2018: Itika Arora officially joined the Bhatnagar lab as PhD student! We welcome you! 
• June, 2018: Dr. Rajesh Gupta presented a poster at American Diabetes Association, Orlando, Florida.
• May, 2018: Dr. Rajesh Gupta gave an oral presentation at the Midwest Islet Club Conference, St. Louis, Missouri. 
• May, 2018: Dr. Rajesh Gupta presented a poster at the UAB Diabetes Research Day, Birmingham, AL. 
• March 28, 2018: Dr. Bhatnagar gave an invited seminar in the Department of Physiology at the Johns Hopkins University, MD. 
• April 3, 2018: Itika Arora is a GBS graduate student of the Genetics, Genomics, and Bioinformatics theme at UAB started lab rotation in the Bhatnagar Lab. 
• February 16, 2018: Dr. Rajesh Gupta gave an oral presentation at the Boshell Diabetes Research Day, Auburn.
• February 16, 2018: Trung Huynh gave an oral presentation at the Boshell Diabetes Research Day, Auburn University, AL. 
• February 8, 2018: Dr. Bhatnagar gave an oral presentation at the Keystone Symposia on the Frontiers of Islet Biology, Keystone, CO. 
• February 8, 2018: Trung Huynh gave a poster presentation at the Darwin Day UAB, Birmingham, AL. ​
• February 8, 2018: Trung Huynh received 1st place for the poster presentation at the UAB Darwin Day. Congratulations!
• February 3, 2018: Trung Huynh gave an oral presentation at the UA Systems Honors Research Day, Tuscaloosa, AL.  
• February 3, 2018: Trung Huynh received 1stPlace award for an oral presentation at the 17th Annual UA Honors Systems Research Conference. Congratulations!
• December, 2017: Manuscript submitted to the Journal of Biological Chemistry! Rajesh Gupta is a first author of this manuscript!
• December, 2017: Dr. Rajesh Gupta received American Diabetes Association postdoctoral fellowship for 3 years! Congratulations!! 
• November 18, 2017: Trung Huynh gavea poster presentation at the Southeastern Medical Scientist Symposium, Atlanta, GA. 
• November 18, 2017: Trung Huynh received a Travel Grant @Emory (Funded by NIH/NIGM) to attend Southeastern Medical Scientist Symposium. 
• November 30, 2017: Trung Huynh gave an oral presentation at the UAB Fall Research Expo, Birmingham, AL. 
• November 30, 2017: Trung Huynh received 2nd place oral award at the UAB Fall Expo! Congratulations!
• June, 2017: Research abstract selected as one of the top abstracts at the American Diabetes Association Conference, San Diego, CA. 
• June, 2017: Dr. Bhatnagar received Young Investigator Travel Award at the American Diabetes Association, San Diego, CA. 
• June, 2017: Dr. Bhatnagar gave an oral presentation at the American Diabetes Association, San Diego, CA.
• June, 2017: Dr. Rajesh Gupta gave a poster presentation at the American Diabetes Association, San Diego, CA​.
• May, 2017: Dr. Rajesh Gupta gave an oral presentation at the Midwest Islet Club Conference, Madison, WI. 
• May, 2017: Trung Huynh gave an oral presentation at the Midwest Islet Club Conference, Madison, WI. He did a great job being an only undergraduate to give an oral presentation. 
• May, 2017: Trung Huynh won the 3rd place prize for the oral presentation at the Midwest Islet Club Conference! Congratulations!
• May, 2017: Dr. Bhatnagar received the UAB DRC Pilot and Feasibility grant award for two years. 
• May 2, 2017: Dr. Rajesh Gupta gave an oral presentation at the UAB Diabetes Research Day, Birmingham, AL. 
• March 3, 2017: Dr. Rajesh Gupta gave an oral presentation at the 10th Annual Boshell Diabetes day, Auburn University, AL. 
• October, 2016: Dan Nguyen is a Science and Technology Honors Program undergraduate student who joined the Bhatnagar Lab to gain research experience. We welcome you! 
• March, 2016: Dr. Rajesh Gupta, PhD officially joined the Bhatnagar Lab as a Research Associate. We welcome you in the lab!
• February 26, 2016: Dr. Bhatnagar gave an oral presentation at the 9th Boshell Diabetes Annual Research Day at the Auburn University. 
• February, 2016: Dr. Bhatnagar's R00 NIH Pathway to Independence Award from the NIDDK, NIH officially started! 
• December, 2015: ​Trung C. Huynh is a Science and Technology Honors Program undergraduate who student joined the Bhatnagar Lab to gain research experience. We welcome you! 
• October, 2015: ​Dr. Bhatnagar accepted the offer to join the University of Alabama at Birmingham as a tenure-track Assistant Professor in the Department of Medicine in the Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes, and Metabolism. ​