Digital Strategies (Div Of Comm)

Program in Developmental Biology Retreat September 2025. Junmin presented on her research and received an award for her presentation while Pankajam and Elkie presented posters.    … Read More

Andrea Page-McCaw and Nicholas Ferrell published a review in Matrix Biology. This review dives into the mechanics of the basement membrane, how it can be measured, and the effects of changes to mechanics in disease. DOI: 10.1016/j.matbio.2025.08.004 Figure on measuring basement membrane… Read More

On May 9th, 2025 Aubrie graduated with her PhD!… Read More

The Page-McCaw lab welcomed three PhD students in Spring 2025.  … Read More

On March 5th, 2025, Aubrie defended her thesis titled “Mending the Matrix: Piezo Initiates Transient Collagen IV Production During Basement Membrane Repair”. Her committee consisted of Dr. Matthew Tyska, Dr. Gautam Bhave, Dr. Jared Nordman, and Dr. Barbara Fingleton. After her defense, the lab celebrated with family and friends with… Read More

Angela Howard, Indrayani Waghmare, James O'Connor, and Andrea represented the lab in force at the fly meeting.  Angela, Indrayani and James presented posters, James presented a talk at the Developmental Mechanics Workshop (and read what was Tweeted about it!), Andrea co-chaired the two Cell Biology platform sessions, and Erica Shannon was… Read More

“Wnt6 maintains anterior escort cells as an integral component of the germline stem cell niche”, a paper by Xiaoxi Wang and Andrea Page-McCaw, describes a new cellular component of the germline stem cell niche — the anterior escort cells.   These cells are maintained by a Wnt6 signal emanating from… Read More