Lab News Category
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!
Junmin recieves a Dean’s Award!
Aug. 5, 2024—Congratulations to Junmin for receiving a 2024 Dean’s Award! Well Deserved! Full article here: https://medschool.vanderbilt.edu/basic-sciences/2024/08/05/2024-basic-sciences-deans-award-winners-announced/
Ryan Anderson joins us for the Summer!
Jun. 5, 2024—Ryan Anderson is a part of the Aspirnaut Program and will be working with us this summer! He is currently an undergraduate at Bethune-Cookman University in Daytona Beach Florida majoring in Biology, pre-med. He hopes to become an anesthesiologist. In his free time, he enjoys listening to music and playing/watching water sports. Welcome to the...
Kimi recieves the 2024 CDB DEI award!
Apr. 25, 2024—Congratulations to Kimi for receiving the much deserved 2024 CDB DEI award!
Elkie joins the lab and was awarded the NSF GRFP!
Apr. 17, 2024—Elkie previously worked in the lab as a research assistant for 2 years prior to entering into Vanderbilt’s IGP program. After completing her rotations, we were excited to find out that Elkie decided to return to the Page-McCaw lab to pursue her graduate studies. She was also awarded the NSF GRFP to fund her work...
Good bye old lab, hello new lab!
Apr. 16, 2024—The Page-McCaw lab is moving from Medical Research Building 3 to the newly designed lab space in the Engineering Science Building! We will be sharing the floor with five other CDB labs, all with a mechanobiology focus. We are excited for the additional collaborations to come!
James White defends his PhD!
Apr. 16, 2024—On February 7th, 2024, James defended his PhD titled “Analyzing Wound Induced Polyploidy”. His committee consisted of Dr. Irena Kaverina, Dr. Guoqiang Gu, Dr. Jared Nordman, and Dr. Gregor Neuert. Following his defense, a lightsaber battle ensued between Dr. James White and Dr. James O’Connor. Congratulations Dr. White on a successful defense and battle victory!
4 new papers available on bioRxiv
Jan. 4, 2024—Four new papers are now available on bioRxiv. Aubrie Stricker, M. Shane Hutson, Andrea Page-McCaw, Piezo initiates transient production of collagen IV to repair damaged basement membranes K. Elkie Peebles, Kimberly S. LaFever, Patrick S. Page-McCaw, Selene Colon, Dan Wang, Aubrie M. Stricker, Nicholas Ferrell, Gautam Bhave, Andrea Page-McCaw, Analysis of Drosophila and mouse mutants reveals that Peroxidasin is required for tissue mechanics and full viability James S. White, Jasmine J. Su, Elizabeth M. Ruark, Junmin Hua, M. Shane Hutson, Andrea Page-McCaw, Wound-Induced Syncytia Outpace Mononucleate Neighbors during Drosophila Wound...
Ivy awarded Outstanding Research in Biological Sciences!
May. 12, 2023—Congratulations to our recent graduate, Ivy Han for winning the award for Outstanding Research in Biological Sciences! Ivy is graduating today summa cum laude and we are so proud of her!