MCP Seminar Series Schedule Spring 2017
MCP Spring 2017 Student Seminar Series
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MCP Spring 2017 Student Seminar Series
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Jeff Jones, Current MCP student in Zhang Lab, is featured in the news for serving as a science camp volunteer with the Morgridge Institute for Research at the Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery. Jones was helping lead and activity where students mounted fixed human embryonic stem cells on slides and looked at them through a microscope. …
MCP Signal Transduction Research Training Symposium: September 12, 2016 The Thirteenth Annual MCP Symposium was held on Monday, September 12th, 2016. The keynote speaker was Dr. Suzanne Topalian of John Hopkins University. To learn more about Dr. Suzanne Topalian’s work, click here. Talk Title: “PD-1 blockade in cancer treatment: precision medicine and immunotherapy” Dr. Suzanne Topalian Melanoma Program Director John Hopkins …
Feyza Engin, Assistant Professor of Biomolecular Chemistry and Trainer in the MCP Program, has earned a Shaw Scientist Award from the Greater Milwaukee Foundation. Engin will receive $200,000 in seed funding to advance her work. Her lab studies Type 1 diabetes, which affects about 3 million people in the United States and is increasing in …
Lynx Biosciences is developing technology to predict how multiple myeloma and other blood cancers will respond to drug treatment, with tests designed to select the drug most likely to benefit a patient. Lynx analyzes a patient’s tumor cells alongside their bone-marrow cells, which influence the tumor cells’ susceptibility and resistance to cancer drugs. The assay …
Joseph Szulczewski‘s paper titled “In Vivo Visualization of Stromal Macrophages via label-free FLIM-based metabolite imaging” was published in Nature Scientific Reports. Read it here.
Oisun Jung, 5th year MCP Student in the Rapraeger Lab, received an AHA predoctoral fellowship for her project: “Investigating a synergistic role of VEGFR2 and a4b1 integrin in the shed Sdc1 complex”
Dr. Randy Schekman, 2013 Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine and Professor and HHMI Investigator at the University of California-Berkeley, gave the Paul Bertics Memorial Symposium Lecture on Monday, April 11, 2016 at 1:00 PM in the Ebling Auditorium in Microbial Sciences Building (MSB). His talk, “Unconventional secretion of proteins and RNA from cultured human …
5-17-16: Kevin Oelstrom, PhD ’15, recently had a paper published with his former advisor, Dr. Baron Chanda. Read it here.