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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!
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...