Ryan is in the MD/PhD program so he will return to UNC medical school to complete his medical education.
Congratulations, Ryan! We wish you the best in all your future endeavors!
Photo above from Ryan's party. Click for larger view.
]]>Ryan is in the MD/PhD program so he will return to UNC medical school to complete his medical education.
Congratulations, Ryan! We wish you the best in all your future endeavors!
Photo above from Ryan's party. Click for larger view.
]]>Members of Dustin's family who came to support and celebrate with him were his wife, Samantha, his parents, Rubin and Lasy Bosch, his sister Rachel Swartz, his parents-in-law Mark and Cindy Filipek, and his sister-in-law Autumn Filipek. Family members flew all the way from North Dakota for Dustin's big day, except for his sister, Rachel, who came in from Columbus, Ohio.
Dustin will return to UNC Medical School to finish his joint MD/PhD medical education.
Photo above (L to R): Dustin's wife, Samantha Bosch, Dustin, his sister, Rachel Swartz, and his parents, Lasy and Rubin Bosch. Click for larger image.
Danielle Cook, a member of the Der Lab, successfully defended her thesis and received her Ph.D. on March 14, 2013. Our congratulations to Danielle!
The title of her dissertation was "Mechanism of Ect2 regulation in cytokinesis and oncogenesis." Danielle is currently a postdoc in the Der lab.
Photo below: At Danielle's PhD party. Click for enlargement.
Click to view another photo from the party.
]]>The title of his dissertation is "The role and regulation of Ral GTPases in oncogenesis."
Tim's mom, Lou Martin of Raleigh NC, along with his dad and his wife, Tim and Mickie Martin of Jacksonville NC, attended his talk and party afterward along with other members of the Der lab.
Tim will be doing a postdoc with Steve Elledge at Harvard in the Genetics Department. We wish him all the best in his future research and all his endeavors!
Below are more pictures from Tim's Ph.D. party. Click for larger views.
Photo above: Tim and his parents, Tim Martin and Lou Martin.
Photo below: Tim being toasted!
View more photos from the party as powerpoint slideshow (1.20 MB) or as pdf (optimized 601 KB).
Photo above (left to right): Raul Doyle, Jakovin Lee, Alex Sabol, Jennifer Frevert, and Kinsey Qi, the 2013 Carolina Summer Fellowship students.
The fellows arrived Monday, May 20 to begin a summer of research in Pharmacology labs.
The new fellows, the schools they currently attend and the labs in which they will be conducting research are:
The fellows typically give oral presentations of their research at the end of July.
]]>The 3rd Annual Oliver Smithies Nobel Symposium Postdoctoral Research Poster Forum was held Friday, April 19 with 44 university postdoctoral fellows who gathered to present their research findings. The forum provides an opportunity for fellows to hear inspiring stories presented by previous Nobel Prize winners, and to highlight their current research. The poster presentations followed the keynote speech by Dr. Harold E. Varmus, Director of the National Cancer Institute and 1989 winner of the Nobel Prize in Medicine.
The two other winners were, first place: Manish Sethi (Radiation Oncology) placed first for his research poster entitled "Nanoparticle Chemosensitization;" and third place: Zongdi Feng (Lineberger Cancer Center) for his research poster entitled "Membrane Hijacking: Acquisition of an Envelope by a Pathogenic Picornavirus."
]]>Marty's wife, Candace, her parents, Nancy and Joe Killian, and his dad, Marty Farrell, attended his defense. Nancy and Joe drove from Spartanburg, SC while Marty's dad, Marty, flew in from Philadelphia.
Our congratulations, Marty! We wish him all the best in his research and future endeavors!
Pictured to the right are (left to right): The new Dr. Marty Farrell and his mentor, Dr. Bryan Roth. Click for enlargement.
Pictured below are are (left to right): Marty's dad, Marty Farrell, Marty, his wife, Candace, Candace's parents, Nancy and Joe Killian. Click for enlargement.
Below are more pictures from the party. Click for enlargements. For more images, see the slideshow.
The title of her dissertation was "Stimulating glial Gq-coupled GPCR pathways blocks acute pain and itch."
Her husband, David, attended her defense and party along with other past and present members of the McCarthy lab.
Suzanne moves on to a new job as a Marketing specialist with the Certara Corporation. We wish Suzanne all the best in her new position!
Photos from the party - click for enlargements
Nicole will take some time off to have her baby and then continue her research pursuits as a postdoc. Our congratulations to Nicole! We wish you all the best with your new family and all your future research endeavors!
Here's a slideshow of pictures from Nicole's defense.
Photos below: Nicole with husband Click image for enlargement.
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Scott Slattery, Ph.D., has received an American Heart Association Postdoctoral Fellowship. Scott is currently studying crosstalk between Rho family pathways by developing means to simultaneously activate and visualize multiple proteins within the same living cell. Before joining the Hahn lab, he received his Ph.D. in Cell Biology from Baylor College of Medicine in 2010, where he studied the role of Aurora C. Kinase in mitosis under Drs. Bill Brinkley and Mike Mancini.
Update: Janet has received both her Ph.D. and a second fellowship award, this one a postdoctoral fellowship from the NextGen Oral Health program at UNC. Since she has graduated, Janet will accept the postdoctoral fellowship award instead of the American Heart Assn. predoctoral award. She will be studying viral pathogenesis as a postdoctoral fellow in the laboratory of Dr. Webster-Cyriaque.
Congratulations to both Scott and Janet on their achievements!
]]>Brian Chen - Dr. Rob Nicholas
(UNC-CH/B.S. in Biomedical Engineering/B.A. in Computer Science/May 2014)
“Interrogating the role of oxidative stress in the action of bactericidal antibiotics in Neisseria Gonorrhoeae”
Yunxiang Dai - Dr. Zefeng Wang
(St. Olaf College/B.A. in Biology and Chemistry/May 2013)
“Exploring the Space of Specific RNA Binding Sequence of PUF Domain”
Alexa Hendricks - Dr. Andrea Nackley
(Lehigh University/B.S. in Biology/with minors in Health, Medicine & Society and Spanish/May 2013)
“Linking Genetic Variability of MOR-1K to Opioid Induced Hyperalgesia in Mice”
Lauren Jones - Dr. Lee Graves
(UNC-CH/B.S. in Biology and Spanish/May 2015)
“RSK-y Endeavor: An Investigation of the Ribosomal S6 Kinase and the inhibitor BI-D1870”
Photo below (left to right): Yunxiang Dai, Lauren Jones, Alexa Hendricks, and Brian Chen. Click for enlargement.
Meg's parents, Page and Clayton Duncan, boyfriend, Josh, and others members of her family attended her defense. The graduation party was celebrated at Top of the Hill.
As Meg is an MD/PhD student, she will be returning to UNC School of Medicine to complete her medical education. Our congratulations to Meg!
Photo below: Meg with boyfriend Josh and her parents - click for enlargement
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Onur's current research focuses on combining computational and experimental approaches to develop new protein caging methods and high throughput production of biosensors that report endogenous protein activity. He joined the Hahn and Dokholyan labs after obtaining his Master’s Degree in Chemical and Biological Engineering from Koc University, Istanbul, Turkey in 2011.
HHMI launched the International Student Research Fellowships Program last year to support international students during their third to fifth years of graduate school in the United States to meet the funding needs of international students in U.S. graduate schools who often have difficulty getting funding to support their studies.
Our congratulations to Onur on receiving this fellowship award!
The Howard Hughes Medical Institute's press release about the awards can be read here.
]]>Asya has accepted a position as a postdoc at the Harvard Medical School Cardiovascular Research Center and has already moved on to Boston to start her postdoctoral training there.
Congratulations to Asya and we wish you all the best in your future research endeavors at Harvard!
Photo below: Asya 's graduation party. Click for larger view.
Jason's parents, Kurt and Bonnie Goldsmith, came from Portland, OR to attend. His in-laws, Ann and Paul Beaulieu, attended also, coming from Philadelphia, PA. His wife, Rachel Goldsmith, who also attended, graduated with a Ph.D. from Pathology and Lab Medicine at UNC last March and is a post-doc at the NIEHS.
After receiving his PH.D., Jason, who is an MD/PhD student, will continue his medical studies at the UNC School of Medicine starting in the summer. Our congratulations to you, Jason!
Photo below: Jason and Dr. Jobin at the reception - click for enlargement
More pictures from the reception and presentation are below - click for enlargements
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