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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!
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/
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...
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!