12/2020- Yes, there are good things that can happen in 2020! One of those things is Dr. Yajing Ji successfully defending her thesis, entitled, "Characterization of Signaling Networks in Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension". Congratulations Yajing, and good luck with the rest of your medical school training here in the MSU DO/PhD program!
Congratulations Dr. Sean Misek on your wonderful thesis defense entitled 'Characterization of pharmacological vulnerabilities in drug-resistant melanoma cells'. It looks like your Ph.D. may have been stressful by the amount of hair that you lost, but your work was amazing! Good luck in your post-doc at the Broad Institute!!
**Funding alert!** Congratulations to Dr. Neubig for his competitive renewal of R01 GM115459 --Mechanisms of Small Molecule Gene Transcription Regulators. This work will elucidate the role of pirin, a protein target of our CCG1423/203971 series of small molecules in cellular signaling. The team includes Erika M. Lisabeth, Jeffrey Leipprandt, Matt Bernard, and Xiangshu Jin. Congrats to all!
Yes, there is a Doctor in the House!!! Congratulations Dr. Jade Feng on your amazing thesis defense entitled 'Mechanisms of GNAO1-associated Neurological Disorders'. We know you're going to do great things at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia!
Another successful MID-SURE poster session by some of our great undergrads!!
Congratulations Dr. Shaw on your excellent thesis defense entitled 'Understanding mechanisms of small molecule inhibitors of RGS proteins'. Good luck in your post-doctoral work in X-ray crystallography with Xiangshu Jin!
Congratulations to Cassie Larrivee for earning her Masters in Comparative Medicine and Integrative Biology!! Her thesis title is "Analysis of Mice Carrying Human GNAO1 Mutations as a Model to Study Associated Movement Disorders"
Congratulations to Yajing Ji for passing her Qualifying exam entitled "The Rho/MRTF/SRF Signaling Axis: A New Therapeutic Target for Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension"
Defense Announcement - September 21
6th Annual Bike Race to Support Melanoma Research
45th Annual Colloquium at Michigan State University
Josiah Quinn and Grace Basa Presented their summer research at MSU's research
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Team Rho Goes to Upstate New York
Neubig Lab Takes to the Water
The Neubig lab presents their data in a 2 minute, 1 slide presentation. We had song, we had 3-D glasses. Overall we had SCIENCE