Congratulations to our new PhD, Elizaveta Wick! June 8, 2022 Dr. Wick successfully defended their PhD, "Viral Hijacking of Ubiquitin Ligases: Lessons from Human Cytomegalovirus pUL145鈥 on May 10.
Stimulating Brain Circuits Promotes Neuron Growth in Adulthood, Improving Cognition and Mood May 18, 2022 The Song lab used optogenetic techniques to stimulate specific brain cells to increase production of neural stem cells and neurons relevant to memory and emotion processing in animal models, as published in Nature Neuroscience May 6.
PHCO Hooding Ceremony 2022 May 11, 2022 Dr. Natalie Hewitt and Dr. Kevin Knight received their PhD hoods in a private hooding ceremony this past weekend. Our congratulations to both!
Congratulations to our new PhD, Dr. Chitra Saran! April 22, 2022 Dr. Saran successfully defended her PhD, "Bile Acid Transporters and Hepatotoxicity: Novel Mechanisms and in Vitro Models," on April 19.
Congratulations to our new PhD, Dr. Ernesto Le贸n! April 14, 2022 Dr. Le贸n successfully defended his PhD, 鈥淓nhancing the function and delivery of chimeric antigen receptor T-cells: Implications for treatment of solid tumors,鈥 on April 4.
How An Experiment Works April 8, 2022 鈥淪tory of an Experiment 鈥 Cell Metabolic Analysis鈥 - a video presentation with Eden Yitbarek Zewdie of the Earp Lab, filmed by Rika Khadria.
Congratulations to our new PhD, Dr. Natalie Hewitt! April 8, 2022 Dr. Hewitt successfully defended her PhD, "Modulation of Active State Dynamics by Catalytic Glutamine Mutations in Large G proteins," on March 31.
Congratulations to our new PhD, Dr. Taylor Enrico! March 10, 2022 Dr. Taylor Enrico successfully defended her PhD, "Control of Proliferation by the Ubiquitin Proteasome System," on March 4.
Taylor Enrico paper, “Cyclin F drives proliferation through SCF-dependent degradation of the retinoblastoma-like tumor suppressor p130/RBL2,” published in eLife January 3, 2022 Congratulations to Taylor Enrico on publishing a first author paper in eLIfe describing non-canonical control mechanism for the Retinoblastoma tumor suppressor family!
Congratulations to our new PhD, Angela Lovett! December 1, 2021 Congratulations to Dr. Lovett who defended her PhD "Analysis Of The Cervicovaginal Microbiome In Neisseria Gonorrhoeae Infections And Its Contribution To Disease Presentation."