Category: Student & Postdoc News

Nicole Vincent Jordan, a member of the Johnson lab, successfully defended her thesis September 6, 2012. The title of her thesis is "Epigenetic Regulation of Epithelial-Mesenchymal Transition in Epithelial Stem Cells and Triple Negative Breast Cancer.

Scott Slattery and Janet Doolittle receive awards.

Carolina Summer Fellowship students made their oral presentations of their summer research Tuesday, July 24, 2012.

Meg Duncan, a member of Rob Nicholas' lab, gave her final defense Friday, June 22, 2012. The title of her dissertation was "Probing the mechanisms of antibiotic resistance in the gonococcus."

>Onur Dagliyan, a graduate student in the Hahn and Dokholyan labs, has been awarded a 2012 Howard Hughes Medical Institute International Student Research Fellowship. Onur Dagliyan, 2012 HHMI International Research Fellowship recipient The fellowship recognizes Onur’s exceptional academic and personal achievements and reflects HHMI’s confidence in his potential to become...

Asya Borikova, a member of the Johnson Lab, successfully defended her dissertation and received her Ph.D. on May 25, 2012. The title of her dissertation was "Cerebral Cavernous Malformations is a disease of dysregulated expression of RhoA and Rap1 proteins."

Jason Goldsmith, a member of the Jobin lab, successfully defended his dissertation April 16, 2012 and recieved his PH.D. The title of his dissertation was ” Mechanisms of mu opioid receptor mediated protection from multiple models of acute injury.”

Alan JK, Berzat AC, Dewar BJ, Graves LM, Cox AD. Regulation of the Rho family small GTPase Wrch-1/RhoU by C-terminal tyrosine phosphorylation requires Src. Mol Cell Biol. 2010 Sep;30(17):4324-38. Epub 2010 Jun 14. González-Pérez V, Reiner DJ, Alan JK, Mitchell C, Edwards LJ, Khazak V, Der CJ, Cox AD. Genetic...

Carolina Summer Fellowship Students made their oral presentations of their summer research Wednesday, July 27, 2011. The students are: Adam Buchholz, John Runge, Jennifer Tran, and Elizabeth Wood.

  Michal Nagiac, PhD with Dr. Henrik Dohlman, his mentor Michal Nagiec, a member of the Dohlman Lab, successfully defended his thesis and received his Ph.D. on Tuesday, June 14, 2011. The title of his thesis is“Coordination of MAP Kinase Signaling During Cell Fate Decisions.” Congratulations, Michal! Michal’s parents, Eva...