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Kimi LaFever, who joined the Page-McCaw lab as an RA2 the day we moved to Vanderbilt in 2010, is being promoted to Lab Manager.  This reclassification is a big move up for her, skipping entirely the intermediate step of RA3.  Kimi's new duties will include more training, organizing, and overseeing.  Kimi first… Read More

First year IGP student Lauryn Luderman is rotating in the Page-McCaw lab for her fourth rotation.  She is using cell culture to examine the trafficking of Dlp after Mmp2 cleavage.  Welcome Lauryn!… Read More

Building on Xiaoxi Wang's beautiful 2014 JCB paper, the new R01 will allow the lab to deepen our studies on Wnt signaling and ovarian stem cells. … Read More

Dhiraj entered Vanderbilt as a first-year student in August 2015, and he comes from New Jersey.  He started working with grad student Angela Howard his first week on campus. Read More

IGP student Mabel Seto is doing her 3rd rotation in the Page-McCaw lab.  She is investigating how Mmp2 alters Dlp trafficking in S2 cells. Read More

August 20, 2015 – Angela Howard is officially a PhD candidate now that she passed her qualifying exam.  Her committee was comprised of Alissa Weaver (chair), Chin Chiang, Matt Tyska, and Gautam (Jay) Bhave. Congratulations Angela!… Read More

June 14, 2015 – Erica Shannon won an award for "Emerging Scientist Best Short Talk" at the 19th International Symposium on Calcium Binding Proteins and Calcium Function in Health and Disease."  Erica's talk was entitled, "Calcium Dynamics as a Potential Readout of Mechanotransduction at Epithelial Wounds".  Her award included… Read More

February 2015 — Xiaoxi Wang PhD was selected to give a talk at the Drosophila Research Conference in Chicago, as part of the platform session Cell Biology and Signal Transduction. Her talk entitled, “Drosophila Matrix Metalloproteinase 2 mediates long-distance attenuation of follicle stem cell proliferation by cleaving Dlp to inhibit… Read More

May 22, 2015 — Angela will be a trainee on the SCRDB Training grant, administered by Vanderbilt’s Program in Developmental Biology. Read More

May 1, 2015 — The National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases (NIAMS) has awarded Andrea and co-investigator Shane Hutson (Vanderbilt Physics) a two-year R21 grant entitled, “FlpOn: an optogenetic circuit for user-designed mosaics and its application to wound healing”. Graduate student Erica Shannon will be supported on… Read More