News
January 21, 2020: Colm Duffy joined the lab as graduate rotation student. Welcome, Colm!
January 6, 2020: Alicia Selvera from Rice University joined the lab as trainee. She will be working on cell plasiticy. Welcome, Alicia!
January 6, 2020: Lan Phi joined the lab as graduate research assistant. Welcome, Lan!
October 21, 2019: Esmeralda Ramirez-Pena's manuscript titled "The epithelial to mesenchymal transition promotes glutamine independence by suppressing GLS2 expression" was accepted in Cancers. Congratulations to Esmeralda and the group. The manuscript can be accessed at https://www.mdpi.com/2072-6694/11/10/1610/htm.
September 16, 2019: Tanvi Visal started her rotation in the lab. She previously completed her master's in pharmacology at Long Island University and worked as a research associate in Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston. Welcome, Tanvi!
August 7, 2019: Sriya won 3rd place at the ITERT Poster Competition 2019 for "p38 inhibition to surpass chemo-resistance in stem-cell rich triple negative breast cancer (TNBC)". Congratulations, Sriya!
August 6, 2019: Matt, Ryan and Sriya completed their summer training in lab. Good luck and congratulations!
July 24, 2019: Wen and Abhijeet's manuscript "A possible role for epigenetic feedback regulation in the dynamics of the Epithelial-Mesenchymal Transition (EMT)" was accepted in Physical Biology. The manuscript can be accessed at https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1478-3975/ab34df
June 2019: Maria received the T32 Training Grant in Translational Genomics and Precision Medicine Approaches in Cancer. Congratulations!
June 10, 2019: Maria Castaneda joined our lab as a postdoc. She completed her Ph.D. in chemistry at the University of Texas at Dallas. Welcome, Maria!
June 20, 2019: Good luck to Robiya on her manuscript submission.
June 4, 2019: Sriya joined our lab as an undergraduate from Rice University. She finished her first year on the pre-med track. Welcome, Sriya!
June 4, 2019: Matthew joined our lab as a CPRIT-CURE summer student from the University of Charleston in West Virginia. He finished his second year studies in pre-med biology. Welcome, Matthew!
April 2, 2019: Yifeng Gao joined our lab as a postdoc. He finished his Ph.D. in biology at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. Welcome, Yifeng!
April 25, 2019: Suhas Vasaikar's paper was published in Cell : https://www.cell.com/cell/pdf/S0092-8674(19)30292-2.pdf. Congratulations, Suhas!
April 1, 2019: Robiya has a new role as an instructor. Congratulations!
Korkut et al. 2019 published the paper “A Pan-Cancer Analysis Reveals High-Frequency Genetic Alterations in Mediators of Signaling by the TGF-β Superfamily” in Cell (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30268436). Congratulations, team!
December 2018: Soniya and Celina joined the lab as rotation students. Welcome!
December 1, 2018: Suhas Vasaikar joined the lab as a research scientist. He finished his Ph.D. from IIT Delhi and post-doc from Karolinska Institute Sweden and Baylor College of Medicine, Houston. Welcome, Suhas!
November 2018: Nick received the T32 Training Grant in Cancer Biology.