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Erica Shannon wins the CDB retreat “Best Video Image” award.
May. 14, 2016—Graduate student Erica Shannon won the departmental award for Best Video Image 2016 at the Cell and Developmental Biology retreat on May 4. Her movie shows the spread of calcium in a Drosophila epithelium after laser-wounding.
Kimi LaFever rises to Lab Manager.
Mar. 2, 2016—Kimi LaFever, who joined the Page-McCaw lab as an RA2 the day we moved to Vanderbilt in 2010, is being promoted to Lab Manager. This reclassification is a big move up for her, skipping entirely the intermediate step of RA3. Kimi's new duties will include more training, organizing, and overseeing. Kimi first started working with flies in...
The lab welcomes rotation student Lauryn Luderman.
Mar. 2, 2016—First year IGP student Lauryn Luderman is rotating in the Page-McCaw lab for her fourth rotation. She is using cell culture to examine the trafficking of Dlp after Mmp2 cleavage. Welcome Lauryn!
Vandy freshman Dhiraj Peddu joins the lab
Feb. 11, 2016—Dhiraj entered Vanderbilt as a first-year student in August 2015, and he comes from New Jersey. He started working with grad student Angela Howard his first week on campus.
The lab is awarded a new R01 from NIGMS to study stem cell and niche signaling.
Feb. 11, 2016—Building on Xiaoxi Wang's beautiful 2014 JCB paper, the new R01 will allow the lab to deepen our studies on Wnt signaling and ovarian stem cells.
The lab welcomes rotation student Mabel Seto.
Jan. 6, 2016—IGP student Mabel Seto is doing her 3rd rotation in the Page-McCaw lab. She is investigating how Mmp2 alters Dlp trafficking in S2 cells.
Congratulations to Angela Howard on passing her Qualifying Exam!
Aug. 20, 2015—August 20, 2015 – Angela Howard is officially a PhD candidate now that she passed her qualifying exam. Her committee was comprised of Alissa Weaver (chair), Chin Chiang, Matt Tyska, and Gautam (Jay) Bhave. Congratulations Angela!
Erica Shannon wins a “Best Short Talk Award”!
Jul. 6, 2015—June 14, 2015 – Erica Shannon won an award for "Emerging Scientist Best Short Talk" at the 19th International Symposium on Calcium Binding Proteins and Calcium Function in Health and Disease." Erica's talk was entitled, "Calcium Dynamics as a Potential Readout of Mechanotransduction at Epithelial Wounds". Her award included a $100 prize as well as...
Angela Howard wins a slot on the Stem Cell & Regenerative Developmental Biology training grant.
Jun. 15, 2015—May 22, 2015 — Angela will be a trainee on the SCRDB Training grant, administered by Vanderbilt’s Program in Developmental Biology.