Lab News Category
PDB Retreat 2025- Junmin gives an award-winning talk, Elkie receives award for poster
Sep. 12, 2025—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.
A review on basement membrane mechanics is published.
Sep. 4, 2025—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 mechanics:
Bryant, Can, and Chloe join the lab!
May. 6, 2025—The Page-McCaw lab welcomed three PhD students in Spring 2025.
Aubrie Stricker defends her PhD!
May. 6, 2025—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 a “Grilled, Chilled, and Thrilled”...
A story of basement membrane repair published in Developmental Cell
Mar. 16, 2025—Aubrie Stricker et al. published a new paper in Developmental Cell! This paper identified a Piezo-dependent population of gut cells that produce collagen IV required for basement membrane repair. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.devcel.2025.02.011
Junmin and Aubrie win awards at the PDB retreat!
Sep. 16, 2024—Junmin received the Best Graduate Student talk award and Aubrie received a poster award at the 2024 PDB retreat!
Pankajam joins the lab!
Aug. 21, 2024—Pankajam is a recent PhD graduate from Dr. Melissa Rolls’ lab at Pennsylvania State University. Her postdoc in the Page-McCaw lab will involve studying the mechanisms involved in wound healing. Outside of the lab, she and her husband enjoy cooking Indian food and playing board games! Welcome to the lab!