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 affects endothelial cell junctions and … Read more

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.

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!  

  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 and can be viewed here … Read more

Congratulations to Victoria L. Bautch, Ph.D., Beverly Long Chapin Distinguished Professor of Biology; Co-Director, UNC McAllister Heart Institute, for presenting keynote address at the Vasculata 2022 – Environmental Determinants of Vascular Health & Disease Meeting. Dr. Bautch did a great job presenting to a full house on Monday, July 18th, at Duke University. Vasculata is … Read more

Congratulations to the Lab of Victoria L. Bautch, Ph.D., Beverly Long Chapin Distinguished Professor of Biology; Co-Director, UNC McAllister Heart Institute, for publishing their exciting review of bone morphogenetic protein (BMP) signaling in blood vessels in the journal Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences. The work from Dr. Bautch’s Lab was led by Cell Biology and … Read more

Congratulations to Victoria L. Bautch, Ph.D., Beverly Long Chapin Distinguished Professor of Biology; Co-Director, UNC McAllister Heart Institute, for recently being appointed to the NHLBI Advisory Council of the NIH. The Council advises the NHLBI and its Director, Dr. Gary Gibbons, on research directions and funding priorities, and meets approximately 4 times/year.

Congratulations to the Lab of Victoria L. Bautch, Ph.D., Beverly Long Chapin Distinguished Professor of Biology; Co-Director, UNC McAllister Heart Institute, and Yuchao Jiang, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Biostatistics & Genetics; Member, Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, for publishing paper, titled “Single-Cell RNA Sequencing Reveals Endothelial Cell Transcriptome Heterogeneity Under Homeostatic Laminar Flow”, in the journal ATVB. … Read more

Congratulations to Natalie Tanke, a graduate student in Dr. Bautch’s Lab, in collaboration with the lab of Jean Cook, Ph.D., Professor of Biochemistry and Biophysics; Associate Dean for Graduate Education, for recently receiving an F31 predoctoral fellowship award from NIH’s NHLBI. The fellowship provides ongoing stipend support for their project, titled “Endothelial Cell Cycle Responses … Read more

Congratulations to Morgan Oatley, a postdoctoral fellow in Dr. Bautch’s Lab, for recently receiving a 2021 postdoctoral fellowship from AHA. Morgan’s fellowship provides stipend support to study BMP signaling in vascular development. Her project is titled “Overlapping Functions of SMAD6 and SMAD7 in Vascular Development and Stability”.