Lab News
September 2023: The DelGiorno Laboratory welcomes new members: undergraduate Katie Gell, and technicians Sabrina Torbit and Dr. Brenda Jarvis!
August 2023: Graduate student Amanda Ruelas is chosen to present her work at the world’s first Tuft Cells Meeting in Giessen, Germany AND receives a travel award
August 2023: The DelGiorno Laboratory welcomes new Postdoctoral Fellow Dr. Katherine Ankenbaur!
June 2023: Gut podcast released: Interview with Dr. DelGiorno on new publication “It is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness: single cell transcriptomics sheds new light on pancreas biology and disease” https://podcasts.apple.com/sk/podcast/single-cell-transcriptomics-sheds-new-light-on-pancreas/id330976727?i=1000615265042
June 2023: The DelGiorno Laboratory welcomes Aspirenauts Sabrina Newenham and JoAnna Dennis!
May 2023: Jiayue Liu accepted into prestigious summer internship: Summer Institute in Biomedical Informatics at Harvard Medical School, Blavatnik Institute
March 2023: Amelia Cephas publishes first author review in Gut!
November 2022: Dr. DelGiorno and Amanda Ruelas are chosen to speak at the American Pancreatic Association Annual Meeting
August 2022: Dr. DelGiorno interviewed for the Purple Rainbow Podcast on her laboratory’s work on pancreatic cancer https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/its-a-long-game/id1440840869?i=1000585699443
August 2022: Dr. DelGiorno awarded a poster award at the 2022 FASEB Meeting: Making and Breaking the Gut, Steamboat Colorado
June 2022: Jiayue Liu accepted into the Vanderbilt Data Science Institute AI Summer
June 2022: The DelGiorno Laboratory welcomes Aspirenaut Katie Gell!
June 2022: The DelGiorno Laboratory is awarded a Vanderbilt Digestive Disease Research Center pilot and feasibility award (year 2)
April 2022: Dr. DelGiorno wins a shark-tank style competition for pilot funding from the VICC Ambassadors
April 2022: Amelia Cephas receives IMSD T32 fellowship
April 2022: Amanda M Ruelas receives IMSD T32 fellowship
April, 2022: Amelia Cephas and Amanda M Ruelas joins the DelGiorno Lab!
April, 2022: Leah Caplan publishes her first author paper “Enteroendocrine Cell Formation Is an Early Event in Pancreatic Tumorigenesis”
March 2022: Dr. DelGiorno and Dr. Jyotsana receive the DoD-Partnering PI-Idea Development Award for pancreatic cancer translational research.
March, 2022: DelGiorno Lab publishes the very first characterization and role of various eicosanoids during the progression of pancreatic cancer in GastroHep Advances.
February, 2022: DelGiorno lab publishes a review on the role of cystine transporter SLC7A11 in cancer in Frontiers of Oncology
November 2021: DelGiorno Lab welcomes rotation students, Amelia Cephas and Jeremy F Kane.
October 2021: DelGiorno Lab publishes “ Single-Cell Transcriptomics Reveals a Conserved Metaplasia Program in Pancreatic Injury” in Gastroenterology!
October 2021: DelGiorno Laboratory awarded Sky Foundation pilot funding
September 2021: Leah Caplan receives the APA 2021 Young Investigator Award
September 2021: Dr. DelGiorno receives the APA 2021 Young Investigator Award
September 2021: The DelGiorno Laboratory receives an NIGMS MIRA R35
August 2021: DelGiorno laboratory awarded an American Cancer Society Institutional Research Grant pilot award to study the role of TBXA2R in pancreatic cancer.
July 2021: Leah Caplan appointed to the Integrated Biological Systems Training in Oncology Training Grant
July 2021: DelGiorno Laboratory awarded a VICC SPORE in Gastrointestinal Cancer, Career Enhancement Award to diagnose and target IPMNs using extracellular vesicles and nanotechnology.
July 2021: Dr. DelGiorno awarded an American Gastroenterological Association Research Scholar Award to investigate the role of epithelial heterogeneity in pancreas tissue injury and tumorigenesis.
June 2021: Vanderbilt Digestive Disease Research Center Pilot and Feasibility Award for studying epithelial heterogeneity in pancreas tissue injury and regeneration.
June 2021: Jiayue Liu accepted into the NIH/NIDDK dkNET Summer of Data Student Program https://dknet.org/about/summer_program_student_2021?mc_cid=7149fbdf53&mc_eid=9a4240960a, Olivia Ben-Levy selected to participate in the Vanderbilt Immersive Experience, Summer Fellowship
May 2021: Dr. Nidhi Jyotsana appointed to Research Assistant Professor in the Department of Cell and Developmental Biology
February 2021: The lab welcomes undergraduate student Kenny Ta.
February 2021: The lab welcomes undergraduate student Jiayue Liu.
February 2021: The lab welcomes undergraduate student Olivia N Ben-Levy.
January 2021: The lab welcomes rotation student Leah Caplan.
November 2020: Zhengzhi Li (George) joins DelGiorno Lab as Lab Manager
October 2020: Dr. Nidhi Jyotsana receives VINSE Pilot Funding to study targeting pancreatic cancer using lipid nanoparticle-RNA technology
September 2020: Dr. Nidhi Jyotsana joins the DelGiorno Laboratory as a Staff Scientist