Lab News Category
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!
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 receives a 2024 CDB award!
Apr. 25, 2024—Congratulations to Kimi for receiving the much deserved a 2024 CDB 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...