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Postdoctoral Researcher, Pauline Bougaran, Receives Presentation Award From The Vascular Cell Biology Gordon Research Seminar

July 31, 2025
Congratulations to Dr. Pauline Bougaran, a postdoctoral researcher, in Dr. Bautch’s Lab, for recently receiving a presentation award at the Vascular Cell Biology Gordon Research Seminar in Newry, Maine. Dr. Bougaran’s recent presentation talk is titled “SUN2 regulation of endothelial cell behaviors via long-range cell-matrix interactions”.  

Postdoctoral Fellow, Pauline Bougaran, Receives Postdoctoral Fellowship From American Heart Association (AHA)

February 5, 2025
Congratulations to Dr. Pauline Bougaran, a postdoctoral fellow, in Dr. Bautch’s Lab, for recently receiving a postdoctoral fellowship from AHA. Dr. Bougaran’s research studies how endothelial cell nuclear mechanotransduction impacts vascular function and aging. Congrats to Pauline!

The Bahnson, Edwards, Jensen, Bautch, Schisler, And Polacheck Labs, In Conjunction With The Dominguez Lab, Present At McAllister Heart Institute (MHI) Summer Undergraduate Mentoring & Meaningful Experiences in Research (SUMMER) Program’s Basic Cardiovascular Sciences Sessions 2024

August 12, 2024
Congratulations to the Labs of Edward Moreira Bahnson, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Cell Biology & Physiology; Center for Nanotechnology in Drug Delivery; McAllister Heart Institute, Whitney Edwards, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Cell Biology and Physiology, Brian C. Jensen, M.D., an MHI member and Associate Professor of Medicine and Pharmacology, Victoria...

Doctorate Of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Student, Chloe Whitworth, Publishes In Expert Opinions of Drug Discovery

January 18, 2024
Congratulations to Chloe Whitworth, a Ph.D. student in Genetics and Molecular Biology, under the co-mentorship of William Polacheck, Ph.D., an MHI member and Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering; Member, Cell Biology and Physiology Curriculum, UNC Medicine; Member, Comparative Medicine Institute, NCSU, and Victoria L. Bautch, Ph.D., Beverly Long Chapin Distinguished...

Cell Biology And Physiology (CBP) Graduate Student, Molly Kulikauskas, And Victoria L. Bautch, Ph.D. , Publish In The Journal Development

December 15, 2023
Congratulations to Molly Kulikauskas, a CBP graduate student in the Bautch Lab, and Victoria L. Bautch, Ph.D., Beverly Long Chapin Distinguished Professor of Biology; Co-Director, UNC McAllister Heart Institute, for publishing article, titled “Endothelial cell SMAD6 balances Alk1 function to regulate adherens junctions and hepatic vascular development”, in the journal...

Graduate Student, Karina Kinghorn, Publishes In Angiogenesis

September 18, 2023
Congratulations to Karina Kinghorn, a Cell Biology and Physiology (CBP) graduate student, in the Bautch Lab, for publishing new paper, titled “A defined clathrin-mediated trafficking pathway regulates sFLT1/VEGFR1 secretion from endothelial cells”, in Angiogenesis.   The work describes how soluble VEGFR1 is secreted to regulate VEGF signaling. Critical modeling support...

Alumnae Graduate Student, Danielle Buglak, Publishes In eLife Magazine

April 7, 2023
Congratulations to Danielle Buglak, Ph.D., a Cell Biology and Physiology alumnae graduate student, formerly in the Bautch Lab, for publishing article, titled “Nuclear SUN1 stabilizes endothelial cell junctions via microtubules to regulate blood vessel formation”, in eLife magazine. The work is a beautiful study of how a nuclear-membrane localized protein...

Undergraduate Student, Ricardo Scheufen Tieghi, And Postdoctoral Fellow, Pauline Bougaran, Receive 2023 Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) Award From National Institute Of Standards And Technology (NIST)

April 7, 2023
Congratulations to Ricardo Scheufen Tieghi, an undergraduate student, and his mentor, Dr. Pauline Bougaran, a postdoctoral fellow, both in Dr. Bautch’s Lab, for recently receiving a 2023 SURF award from NIST. This award provides funds to do research in the Bautch Lab on nuclear SUN proteins in vascular biology.

Research Associate, Ziqing Liu, Ph.D., Accepts Offer From Medical College Of Wisconsin

September 20, 2022
Congratulations to Ziqing Liu, Ph.D., a research assistant in Dr. Bautch’s Lab, for accepting an offer from the Medical College of Wisconsin for an assistant professor position. Dr. Liu will be joining the Department of Physiology at Medical College of Wisconsin. She will start her independent career in October, 2022!...

Cell Biology And Physiology (CBP) Graduate Student, Molly Kulikauskas, Featured In UNC’s Shadow A Scientist

July 26, 2022
  Congratulations to Molly Kulikauskas, a CBP graduate student in the Bautch Lab, for being featured in UNC’s Shadow A Scientist. Molly is a 5th-year Ph.D. candidate in the CBP Department at UNC, and in Dr. Bautch’s lab, she studies how blood cells develop. She is featured online this week...