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CBP graduate student, Kimberly Lukasik, received a National Cancer Institute F99\/K00 predoctoral to postdoctoral fellow transition award. <\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

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Kimberly Lukasik<\/a>, a graduate student in Stephanie Gupton\u2019s laboratory is the first student from the Department of Cell Biology and Physiology to win a F99\/K00 award from the National Cancer Institute. The award supports outstanding doctoral candidates and aids in their transition to career-building postdoctoral positions. It funds up to two years of graduate work and four years of postdoctoral research. <\/span><\/p>\n

The award entailed a competitive internal selection process in which leaders at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill could only select one candidate from the entire university to compete for the award at a national level. \u201cTo be honest, I just assumed I wasn\u2019t going to get it,\u201d said Lukasik. She received notice near the beginning of October last year that she had been selected as UNC\u2019s candidate.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Kimberly Lukasik is the first CBP student to receive a F99\/K00 postdoctoral fellow transition award.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cI was really excited and thought, this is real. Okay, what do we do now,\u201d said Lukasik. The internal application process for UNC only required a broad description of her research, a biography, and recommendation letters. Now, Lukasik had to propose an F31\/32-type grant that detailed her specific research aims for her graduate work, her broad research aims for her postdoctoral research, and how these projects would help establish the eventual direction of her own research laboratory, and she only had a little over a month to prepare. <\/span><\/p>\n

A unique<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>melanoma<\/span><\/strong>\u00a0project <\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\n

Lukasik\u2019s research project in Gupton\u2019s laboratory is a bit unique. The lab group focuses on how neuronal development occurs, including the proteins and cytoskeletal dynamics involved. Lukasik found that one of these proteins, TRIM9, enriched in the brain and nervous system but not anywhere else in the body was expressed in melanoma (skin cancer) cells. Interestingly, TRIM9 is also not expressed in normal melanocytes, and patients with high levels of TRIM9 often have more aggressive forms of melanoma. <\/span><\/p>\n

During her graduate work, Lukasik found that TRIM9 negatively regulates exocytosis, or the release of molecules into the extracellular environment. It also negatively regulates focal adhesion size and number. Focal adhesions are proteins that connect the cytoskeleton of a cell to the extracellular matrix. When Ludkasik knocked out TRIM9 expression in human melanoma cells, she saw that the cells migrated faster, had different focal adhesions, and reduced proliferation. <\/span><\/p>\n

For the specific aims linked to her graduate research, she proposed piecing together how TRIM9\u2019s effects on migration, proliferation, and exocytosis affect cancer metastasis in a melanoma mouse model. For her postdoctoral work and future career, she proposed looking at the interactions between cancer and the nervous system. \u201cI thought about not only what I would do for my postdoc, but how I could make my own lab,\u201d said Lukasik. \u201cIt\u2019s a new field from what I understand that is about 10 years old, the neuroscience of cancer, seeing how cancer exploits the nervous system to metastasize or proliferate.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n

With a little help <\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\n

To assemble her application and write her aims, Lukasik reached out to a previous NCI F99\/K00 winner from a different department at UNC who had since graduated and was nearing the end of her postdoctoral research. Although the two did not know each other, Lukasik found a comrade in her fellow UNC alum and received helpful advice and guidance. Lukasik also had the unwavering support of her mentor. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cStephanie has always been 100% supportive and has encouraged me to write all the fellowships that I\u2019ve been interested in,\u201d said Lukasik. \u201cShe\u2019s never really told me no. That\u2019s important, having the support of your PI.\u201d Lukasik also found support from CBP at large. After winning the award, she received help and guidance from the CBP admin team on budgeting and planning. She also credited her committee and CBP core imaging services. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cCBP has been very helpful in helping me do good science. My co-sponsor for the application is James Bear. He\u2019s part of CBP and on my committee. Most of my committee is CBP, including Pat Brennwald, who has been a great resource and completely supportive of me throughout my graduate career in multiple ways. I\u2019ve never had any of them tell me no when I\u2019ve asked for help,\u201d said Lukasik. \u201cAnd the Hooker Imaging Core led by Wendy Salmon is incredible. Multiphoton imaging is difficult. Nobody else in our lab does multiphoton imaging or uses this mouse model. Without having people to consult on campus, all of them in CBP, I wouldn\u2019t know what to do.\u201d<\/div><\/span><\/p><\/div>\n

Some students may feel discouraged from applying for this award because they feel the process is too competitive or that their project doesn\u2019t have enough of a cancer focus. Lukasik’s advice is to apply anyway. \u201cThe worst they can do is tell you no. Just apply and show that you are really interested in how you could gain the skills to conduct a successful cancer-focused project. And reach out to people because a lot of people at UNC are very helpful,\u201d said Lukasik.<\/span><\/p>\n

Applications for the NCI F99\/K00 are due in November every year.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Written by Tiffany Garbutt, PhD<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

This article was originally published on December 5, 2024 in the CBP In the Loop: Year in Review Newsletter<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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