Deborah Granger, a research specialist in the Johnson Lab, receives her 15-year Service Award on September 17. Pictured with Debbie in the photo above are Patty Holloway and Dr. Gary Johnson. Debbie received her BA in German/English from Georgia State University (1989). After living and working in Vienna, Austria for five years, she returned to … Read more
Dr. Yan Fu (Alan Jones and Tim Elston’s Labs) and Dr. Mathew Pena (Tim Elston and Beverly Errede’s labs) received 1st and 2nd place poster awards at the 2013 International Conference on Computational Cell Biology, held Aug 14-16. Congratulations to both!
Dr. Juan Song, Ph.D. and Dr. Mauro Calabrese, Ph.D. have joined the Pharmacology Department as Assistant Professors. Dr. Song will begin in September, 2013 and Dr. Calabrese will join us starting in March, 2014. Meet Dr. Song and Dr. Calabrese A few words from Dr.Juan Song to introduce herself: I’ll be starting as an Assistant … Read more
Marty Whittle, a member of the Johnson Lab, successfully defended his dissertation to receive his Ph.D. August 12, 2013. The title of his dissertaion is “Targeting the Triple-Negative Breast Cancer Kinome with Chemical Proteomics.” Our congratulations to Marty! Marty will be moving to Seattle, Washington to be Postdoctoral Fellow at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, … Read more
Ken McCarthy and Angelique Whitehurst at her goodbye luncheon The department said farewell to Angelique Whitehurst and her Lab with a luncheon August 1, 2013. Angelique and her entire lab are moving to UT Southwestern to pursue their research careers there. Angelique joined the Pharmacology department in 2009. Her research has been in the … Read more
Dr. Ross Dubose with mentor, Dr. Rob Nicholas Ross Dubose, a member of Rob Nicholas’ lab, successfully defended his thesis on Monday, July 29, 2013 and received his Ph.D. The title of his thesis is “Title: “P2Y Receptor Trafficking in Polarized Epithelial Cells.” Our congratulations to Ross! Ross’ family attended his defense and celebration … Read more
Dr. Chris Dibble and his mentor, Dr. Gary Johnson Chris Dibble, a member of the Johnson Lab, defended his thesis June 5 and received his Ph.D. The title of his dissertation was “Defining the Cerebral Cavernous Malformation signaling network in endothelial cells.” Chris’ family came to support him for his talk. The Johnson lab will … Read more
The Five Carolina Summer Fellows presented their research July 23, 2013 and received Certificates for completing the program.
Dr. Ryan Phillips and his mentor, Dr. Nancy Allbritton Ryan Phillips, a member of the Allbritton Lab, successfully defended his thesis and received his Ph.D. May 30, 2013. The Allbritton lab held a celebration luncheon for him on the following day. The title of his dissertation was “Development of a Novel Assay of Protein Tyrosine … Read more
The Department of Pharmacology held its annual all day research retreat with guest speakers, poster presentations and a social mixer on March 26, 2013 at the Friday Center. The research retreat brought the department’s faculty, postdocs, research faculty and staff, and graduate students together to share new projects and ideas in a social environment. Three … Read more
