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Meet our newest member: Gabriele Juskeviciute
Jun. 6, 2018—We are so happy to welcome Gabby to the lab! Gabby joined in July and has been slowly assuming the responsibilities of lab manager and supervisor of our undergraduate student workers. She is off to a great start! We asked Gabby a few questions to get to know her better… Where are you from?...
Congratulations, Dr. Jones!
Jun. 6, 2018—We celebrated our last defense of the summer! Christine Jones presented her thesis "Regulation of the key mitotic checkpoint protein Dma1 through post-translational modifications." Thanks to all of Christine's friends and family who joined us for this occasion! Christine has moved on to work as a Senior Associate Scientist at AxioMX (an Abcam company). Christine's excellent...
Meet our newest member: Eric Zhang
Jun. 6, 2018—Eric Zhang is an undergraduate student who will be doing research in our lab under the mentorship of post-doc Sierra Cullati. Welcome, Eric! We asked Eric a few questions to get to know him. What are you studying at Vanderbilt? What are you thinking about doing after college? I’m currently a Biological Sciences and Global...
Nathan’s paper published in eLife
Jun. 6, 2018—Nathan's paper "Nanoscale architecture of the Schizosaccharomyces pombe contractile ring" is now published in eLife. (Click to read: eLife 2017;6:e28865). In collaboration with Abigail Lind (Rokas Lab at Vanderbilt, ), Nathan used super-resolution microscopy to determine the spatial relationship of contractile ring proteins at nanoscale resolution. These results were further supported by intermolecular FRET analysis. To read more,...
Alumni highlights: Adam Bohnert’s paper featured in New York Times
Jun. 6, 2018—Adam Bohnert graduated from the Gould Lab in 2013, after which he joined Cynthia Kenyon's group at UCSF/Calico Life Sciences. He has been studying aging using the model systems of oogenesis in C. elegans and Xenopus. His findings have just been published in Nature. His results were also highlighted in The New York Times. Congratulations, Adam! To...