Category: Student & Postdoc News

Eight poster and three oral presentations, and best T-shirt design won awards at the Pharmacology 2025 research retreat.

Dr. Bivins successfully defended her thesis, "Evolution of Antimicrobial Resistance in N. Gonorrhoeae: Balance Between Essential Function and Preventing Antibiotic Activity." under the direction of her mentor, Dr. Rob Nicholas.

Dr. Gentile successfully defended her thesis, "Impact of the L421P Mutation in Penicillin-Binding Protein 1 on Fitness and Antibiotic Resistance in Neisseria Gonorrhoeae" under the guidance of her mentor, Rob Nicholas.

Dr. Jenner successfully defended her thesis, “Kinase Inhibitor Therapies for Pancreatic Cancer" under the direction of her mentor, Dr. Jen Jen Yeh.

Congratulations to Dr. Dalia Martinez-Marin and members of the Kevin Pruitt Lab for their latest publication in Nature Communications exploring the role of Dishevelled-1 to regulate transcription and epigenetic!

Dr. Guzman successfully defended his PhD thesis, "Characterizing RNA G-quadruplex Recognition by Disordered Domains of RNA-Binding Proteins," under the guidance of Dr. Daniel Dominguez.

Dr. Graves successfully defended his PhD thesis, "ERK Regulates IKK Epsilon Expression and Oncogenic Functions of Pancreatic Cancer" under the guidance of Dr. Albert Baldwin.

Congratulations to Amy Aponte, Tania Bellinger, McKenzie Grundy Gehris, Sarah Mott, Ryan Robb, and Michael Sturdivant!

Dr. Welsh successfully defended her PhD Thesis, “Regulating the Anaphase-Promoting Complex/Cyclosome (APC/C): Intrinsic Mechanisms and Cell Cycle Inhibitors" under the guidance of Dr. Nicholas Brown.

Congratulations to Dr. Laura Peng, PhD and Yi Xu, PhD, working in the lab of Jen Jen Yeh, MD, on their groundbreaking findings published in Cancer Discovery!