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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!… Read More

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… Read More

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. … Read More

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!  … Read More

Congratulations to Andrea and Shane who were awarded the Seeding Success Grant on “The role of cellular tension in wound healing”.  … Read More

Indrayani Waghmare has accepted a tenure track position as assistant professor at UMass Lowell! Congratulations and best wishes to Indrayani, we will miss you! Visit her lab website here.  … Read More

James White et al published a new paper in JoVE! This paper demonstrates a reproducible protocol for dissecting and fixing the Drosophila melanogaster pupal notum for antibody and cell staining on new or previously live-imaged samples.  … Read More

James won a 2-year American Heart Association predoctoral fellowship to support his work on calcium signaling in response to wounds.  Way to go James!… Read More

  Vanderbilt announced that five of its faculty members were named 2018 Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).  Andrea was recognized “for distinguished contributions to the field of extracellular biology, particularly the functions of matrix metalloproteinases in Drosophila.”… Read More

Andrea and Shane Hutson (Vanderbilt Physics) were awarded a new R01 from NIGMS, entitled “Cellular Integration of Information in the Detection and Response to Epithelial Damage”.  … Read More