Gould Lab celebrates the total eclipse
Jun. 6, 2018—Nashville, TN was in the path of totality for the Great American Solar Eclipse. We observed the total eclipse from 1:27-1:29pm on Monday, August 21 and then celebrated this awesome event with delicious cake baked by undergrad Maya.
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...
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...
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...
Congratulations, Dr. McDonald!
Jun. 6, 2018—Nathan successfully defended his thesis entitled "Nanoscale architecture of F-BAR proteins and the Schizosaccharomyces pombe contractile ring." His thesis work has been published in numerous papers and he has written numerous reviews: McDonald NA, Gould KL. Linking up at the BAR: oligomerization and F-BAR protein function. Cell cycle (Georgetown, Tex.). 2016 May 31.PMID: 27245932. McDonald NA, et al. The Tubulation Activity...