Setting the bar!
Selin is a PhD candidate in the Pharmacology program and she is studying how the multi-functional enzyme CHIP regulates microtubule dynamics, including in models of neurodegeneration. I met Selin while teaching PHCO 732, our grant writing course in the Pharmacology program. The stars aligned, and we welcomed her to our lab a year later…we are happy to have her on our team! She is a great biologist and immediately made a strong and exciting addition to both our science and lab environment. She is working with Todd Cohen’s lab as part of our collaborative studies to cure Alzheimer’s Disease.
We are very happy to announce two new lab members, both 2nd year Pharmacology PhD students!
Mariah is studying the mechanisms of co-chaperones and chaperone interactions on the cellular stress response using a cancer cell model. Mariah is pursuing an NSF fellowship, proposing to study the importance of these protein-protein interactions in the heat shock response, an evolutionary conserved mechanism to protect and adapt cells to heat.
Kaitlan is researching mechanisms of cell death and the link to mitochondrial dysfunction in models of cerebellar ataxia. Kaitlan is part of the PHCO T32, Pharmacological Sciences Training Program, a great stepping stone for a career in pharmacology.