June 9, 2014
Liz successfully defended her dissertation on Tuesday, April 8, 2014, under the direction of Dr. Keith Burridge. The title of her dissertation was "The RhoA GEF, LARG, mediates ICAM-1-dependent mechanotransduction in endothelial cells to stimulate transendothelial migration"
June 9, 2014
Sarah successfully defended her dissertation on Thursday, March 27, 2014, under the direction of Dr. Kay Lund. The title of her dissertation was "Expression patterns and roles of the insulin receptor in the intestinal epithelium"
April 9, 2014
Davin successfully defended his dissertation and received his PhD on March 18, 2014, under the direction of Dr. Cam Patterson. The title of his dissertation was "The role of ankyrin repeat and socs box containing protein4 (ASB4) in trophoblast differentiation and pseudovasculogenesis".
April 9, 2014
Deepali successfully defended her dissertation and received her PhD on March 18, 2014, under the direction of Dr. Albert Baldwin. The title of her dissertation was "Oncogenic KRAS, GSK-3, NF-kB and TBK-1: the interplay and consequences in promoting pancreatic and lung cancer"
March 13, 2014
Nature Cell Biology “Isolated nuclei adapt to force and reveal a mechanotransduction pathway in the nucleus” Christophe Guilluy, Lukas D. Osborne, Laurianne van Landeghem, Lisa Sharek, Richard Superfine, Rafael Garcia-Mata, Keith Burridge Journal of Immunology “The RhoA guanine nucleotide exchange factor, LARG, mediates ICAM-1-dependent mechanotransduction in endothelial cells to stimulate transendothelial migration” Elizabeth Lessey-Morillon, Lukas …
February 11, 2014
P. Kay Lund, PhD, is named the 2015 Davenport Awardee. The Horace W. Davenport Distinguished Lectureship is the most prestigious recognition offered by the Gastrointestinal & Liver Section of the American Physiological Society.
February 3, 2014
January 2014 – Congratulations to Professor Ben Philpot, PhD, for receiving a new R01 entitled “Role of UBE3A in the Central Nervous System.”
January 21, 2014
Assistant Professor Stephanie Gupton, PhD, receives R01 funding from the National Institutes of Health - National Institute of General Medical Sciences for her project "TRIM9 coordinates membrane trafficking and cytoskeletal dynamics."
January 18, 2014
Five faculty members awarded Translational Team Science funding from the School of Medicine.
November 7, 2013
Investigators in Project I will. Read more…
