Congratulations, Dr. Willet!
Jun. 6, 2018—Alaina successfully defended her thesis "Mechanisms regulating cytokinetic contractile ring formation and anchoring Schizosaccharomyces pombe." We celebrated all of Alaina's contributions to the lab and scientific community including mentorship of rotation students (e.g. Chloe) and undergraduates (e.g. Hannah), quantitative microscopy techniques that she learned at Woods Hole, and the widespread adaptation of the mNeonGreen fluorophore by our lab and...
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?...
Summer student Luul presents her work at the VSSA Symposium
Jun. 6, 2018—Luul Aden has spent the last 8 weeks working in the Gould lab and today she presented her work at the VSSA 15th Annual Student Research Symposium. After this summer, Luul will start her junior year at Vanderbilt as a Molecular Biology major. In the future, Luul hopes to go to medical school and maybe even continue doing...
Read Sierra’s paper in the August issue of JCB
Jun. 6, 2018—Read Gould lab postdoc Sierra Cullati's paper "A bifurcated signaling cascade of NIMA-related kinases controls distinct kinesins in anaphase" in the August issue of Journal of Cell Biology. This paper shares some of her graduate thesis work from Scott Gerber's lab at Dartmouth. In this paper, Sierra dissects the regulation of kinesins Mklp2 and Kif14 by NIMA-related kinases Nek6, Nek7, and Nek9...
Chloe’s and Alaina’s paper available online!
Jun. 6, 2018—Chloe Snider and Alaina Willet are first authors on a paper accepted at Journal of Cell Biology and now available online. Click to read about "Phosphoinositide-mediated ring anchoring resists perpendicular forces to promote medial cytokinesis." This paper establishes the importance of proper plasma membrane lipid composition for cytokinesis in S. pombe. When plasma membrane lipid composition is perturbed, the cytokinetic ring...