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Meet our PhD students!

2020-08-28
Selin Altinok

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 Stewart

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 Smith

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.

 

Latest research @ UNC IVB/MHI Symposium

2020-04-01
Poster all-stars

Becky along with Sarah and Christina presented updates on the latest cardiovascular research projects going on in the lab. It was a great day of science, and little did we know it would be our last non-virtual gathering of the semester. Great job!

Schisler Lab relocation complete

2019-01-04

We are now located on the third floor of MBRB, Room 3336. Jonathan’s office is next-door in room 3340C. Come visit the new digs!

New members of the Schisler Lab, 2019

2019-01-04

We have new undergraduate interns for 2019! So welcome to the team!

Latest paper showing the neuro-protective role of CHIP

2018-04-28

Collectively, this study identifies a novel means of preventing necroptosis in two in vitro models of cerebral ischemia injury through activating the expression of CHIP, and it may provide a potential target for the further study of the disease.

Anisomycin prevents OGD-induced necroptosis by regulating the E3 ligase CHIP