Category: Student & Postdoc News

Congratulations to Amy Aponte, Mckenzie Gehris, Anh Luu, Ryan Robb and Michael Sturdivant for your well earned recognition!

Dr. Bellinger successfully defended her PhD thesis,"Structural, Functional, and Transcriptional Responses of Nucleus Accumbens Microglia to Long-access Cocaine Self-Administration," under the guidance of Dr. Kate Reissner!

Dr. Aponte successfully defended her PhD thesis, "Post-translational Regulation of the RB Tumor Suppressor in Response to CDK4/6 Inhibition" under the mentorship of Dr. Mike Emanuele!

Dr. Wang successfully defended her PhD thesis, "Decoding Cancer Biology Using Single-Cell Multiomics" under the direction of Dr. Elizabeth Brunk.

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.