June 9, 2014
Doug Cyr receives Cystic Fibrosis Foundation Therapeutics grant
Doug Cyr receives $200,000/year grant to study mechanisms for therapeutic restoration of rare CFTR mutant function in CF patients.
Author Archives: Janice Warfford
June 9, 2014
Liz Lessey-Morillon receives her PhD
Liz successfully defended her dissertation on Tuesday, April 8, 2014, under the direction of Dr. Keith Burridge. The title of her dissertation was "The RhoA GEF, LARG, mediates ICAM-1-dependent mechanotransduction in endothelial cells to stimulate transendothelial migration"
June 9, 2014
Sarah Andres receives her PhD
Sarah successfully defended her dissertation on Thursday, March 27, 2014, under the direction of Dr. Kay Lund. The title of her dissertation was "Expression patterns and roles of the insulin receptor in the intestinal epithelium"
April 9, 2014
Davin Townley-Tilson receives PhD
Davin successfully defended his dissertation and received his PhD on March 18, 2014, under the direction of Dr. Cam Patterson. The title of his dissertation was "The role of ankyrin repeat and socs box containing protein4 (ASB4) in trophoblast differentiation and pseudovasculogenesis".
April 9, 2014
Deepali Bang receives PhD
Deepali successfully defended her dissertation and received her PhD on March 18, 2014, under the direction of Dr. Albert Baldwin. The title of her dissertation was "Oncogenic KRAS, GSK-3, NF-kB and TBK-1: the interplay and consequences in promoting pancreatic and lung cancer"
March 13, 2014
Burridge lab publishes papers in Nature Cell Biology and Journal of Immunology
Nature Cell Biology “Isolated nuclei adapt to force and reveal a mechanotransduction pathway in the nucleus” Christophe Guilluy, Lukas D. Osborne, Laurianne van Landeghem, Lisa Sharek, Richard Superfine, Rafael Garcia-Mata, Keith Burridge Journal of Immunology “The RhoA guanine nucleotide exchange factor, LARG, mediates ICAM-1-dependent mechanotransduction in endothelial cells to stimulate transendothelial migration” Elizabeth Lessey-Morillon, Lukas …