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Postdoc Indrayani Waghmare published a mini-reivew on Wnt signaling in the Drosophila germarium.  This review was badly needed in the field! (February, 2018)… Read More

Graduate student Will Ramos-Lewis published a mini-review, “Basement membrane mechanics shape development:  Lessons from the fly”, discussing the slew of recent papers analyzing basement membranes in Drosophila.  Strong work, Will!… Read More

James read his poem written from the perspective of a guard atop a fort's watchtower, needing to light the signal pyres in response to a breach in the wall.   Woot!… Read More

Click the image to see the video–       The rest of the press release is available here. Read More

Your browser doesn’t support video. Please download the file: video/mp4   The article, entitled “Multiple Mechanisms Drive Calcium Signal Dynamics around Laser-Induced Epithelial, Wounds”, describes how different types of cell and tissue damage result in different mechanisms of signaling to the neighboring healthy cells.  Cells in the… Read More

NIAMS has awarded the Page-McCaw lab a new, 2-year R21 grant to study how basement membrane is repaired after damage.  The lab has developed a new model of basement membrane injury, analyzing the basement membrane around the gut after feeding adult animals the noxious agent DSS.  Graduate student Angela Howard is leading… Read More

James O'Connor, who entered Vanderbilt through the Quantitative and Chemical Biology (QCB) Program, joined the Page-McCaw lab in April 2017.  He won a competitive spot on the Program in Developmental Biology Training grant, supporting his studies for two years.  He is working on early cellular responses to epithelial damage, a… Read More

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. Read More

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!… Read More