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The Page-McCaw lab welcomes rotation student Karrie Dudek.

Jan. 21, 2015—January 5, 2015 — First year IGP student Karrie Dudek started her 3rd rotation in the Page-McCaw lab. Welcome Karrie!

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Congratulations to Will Ramos-Lewis on passing his qualifying exam!

Nov. 10, 2014—November 10, 2014 — Will Ramos-Lewis is now officially a PhD candidate in the Dept. of Cell and Developmental Biology.  He was examined by a committee composed of Chris Wright (chair), Jeffrey Davis, Heinrich Matthies, and Gautam Bhave, who found him qualified to persue a PhD.  Congrats Will!  (Photo left to right: Erica, Will, Kimi, Angela,...

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Erica Shannon is selected for a science policy program in Washington DC.

Sep. 30, 2014—October 16, 2014 — This October Erica Shannon attended a 2-day Federal STEM Policy and Advocacy Externship sponsored by Vanderbilt's ASPIRE program. During this externship students networked with professionals in the Executive and Legislative branches of government to learn how science policy is made.  You can read the Vanderbilt news article here.  Congratulations Erica!

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JCB publishes Xiaoxi Wang’s paper with an accompanying commentary by Norbert Perrimon

Sep. 29, 2014—September 29, 2014 — Xiaoxi Wang's paper "A matrix metalloproteinase mediates long-distance attenuation of stem-cell proliferation" was published today in The Journal of Cell Biology.  We are honored that JCB asked Norbert Perrimon and colleagues to write an accompanying opinion piece, which can be found here.

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Xiaoxi’s paper is accepted into The Journal of Cell Biology

Sep. 5, 2014—August 27, 2014  The Journal of Cell Biology accepted for publication the article, "A matrix metalloproteinase mediates long-distance attenuation of stem-cell proliferation" by Xiaoxi Wang and Andrea Page-McCaw.  The paper finds a novel mechanism regulating the long-distance spreading of Wingless protein to regulate stem cell proliferation.  In the fly ovary, Wingless is made by cells at the anterior...

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Erica Shannon passes her qualifying exam

Jul. 23, 2014—July 10, 2014 — Graduate student Erica Shannon passed her qualifying exam.  Her examiners were Irina Kaverina, Chin Chiang, Jeff Davidson, and Ian Macara.  Here is Erica (right) relaxing with a beer after it is over.

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Team Bromide’s paper is published in Cell

Jun. 5, 2014—Scott McCall and colleagues paper entitled, "Bromine Is an Essential Trace Element for Assembly of Collagen IV Scaffolds in Tissue Development and Architecture" was published in Cell.  The study found that the element bromine, previously thought not to be essential for life, is in fact essential in mediating crosslinking of the basement membrane.  The Page-McCaw lab contributed by...

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Xiaoxi Wang gives CDB retreat talk

May. 9, 2014—May 5 2014 — Xiaoxi Wang gave a great talk at Cell and Developmental Biology retreat on her work on Mmp2 regulating follicle stem cells in the ovary.

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QCB student Angela Howard joins the lab

May. 3, 2014—May, 2014 — Angela Howard joined the Page-McCaw lab as a first year graduate student, coming to Vanderbilt through the Quantitative and Chemical Biology program.  Welcome Angela! 

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Graduate student Will Ramos-Lewis joins the lab

Mar. 1, 2014—March, 2014 — Will Ramos-Lewis joined the Page-McCaw lab as a graduate student.  Welcome Will!

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