‘Lab events’
Sierra to present at VICC Genome Maintenance Mini-Retreat
Jun. 7, 2018—Sierra will present at the Vanderbilt Ingram Cancer Center (VICC) Genome Maintenance Mini-Retreat on April 27, 2018. GM retreat draft agenda.pdf
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...
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...
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...
Nathan named “Outstanding Graduate Student” by Vanderbilt CDB, and fun times at CDB Retreat 2016
Jun. 6, 2018—Congratulations to Nathan McDonald, who was named "Outstanding Graduate Student" at the 2016 Department of Cell and Developmental Biology Retreat! https://medschool.vanderbilt.edu/cdb/news/2016-cdb-graduate-student-postdoc-year-announced