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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!
Seeding Success Grant Awarded!
Apr. 21, 2023—Congratulations to Andrea and Shane who were awarded the Seeding Success Grant on “The role of cellular tension in wound healing”.
Indrayani Waghmare to become newest faculty member at UMass Lowell
Apr. 21, 2023—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.
A new paper in JoVE
May. 16, 2022—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.
James wins an AHA Fellowship!
Jan. 22, 2019—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!
Andrea is named a 2018 AAAS Fellow
Jan. 22, 2019— 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.”
New R01 to study wound healing
Sep. 25, 2018—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”.
Will publishes thesis work on basement membrane repair.
Aug. 25, 2018—Graduate student Will Ramos-Lewis had his his thesis work accepted for publication in Matrix Biology. “A scar-like lesion is apparent in basement membrane after wound repair in vivo,” analyzes how basement membrane is repaired after a mechanical injury. Strikingly, this repair is not perfect, as a visible scar remains even after the basement membrane has...