We welcome two new additions to our lab: Work-Study student Joseph Latham and PhD student Meagan Colie.
Are you interested in learning more about the Schisler Lab and operations in space? Register for the 2022 Human Research Program Investigators’ Workshop on 2/07-2/10. This workshop aims to provide an informal, collegial atmosphere for cross-disciplinary interaction. Click on the graphic below to sign up; we hope to see you there!
Kaitlan contributes to outreach and mentoring for several groups here at UNC-CH. Well deserved recognition, Kaitlan!
Congrats to Mariah, winning the prestigious NSF Graduate Research Fellowship. This award provides three years of support for Mariah’s doctoral research. Way to go!
Congratulations to seniors Nandita Vegesna and Olivia Rice for their presentation at the Undergraduate Research Poster Session! We are incredibly proud of them.
Congratulations to Selin Altinok, Becky Sanchez, Jonathan Schisler, Mariah Stewart, and Kaitlan Smith for their newly published review!
Learn more about “Co-Chaperones Mediate Health and Disease by Modifying Chaperone Function and Protein Triage” here:
We celebrate our past & present lab members every day, but this week especially our Class of 2020! UNC held their long awaited graduation ceremony on Oct. 9-10 and we are incredibly proud of all of you! The Schisler Lab Class of 2020 brought creativity, discovery, and laughs to the table making our research space that much better.
In order:
(1) Ellie Wilson is a Biomedical Engineering grad student @ Temple University
Alex Eaker is a Research Tech in the Baldwin Lab @ UNC Neuro
(2) Sarah Chiavacci (middle) is in a Physiology Master’s program and a doula
(3) Bridget Tarnowski is a Research Tech @ Merck Research Labs
(4) Charlie Roethling is a medical student @ UNC School of Medicine
Not pictured: Braxton Diekhoff (Pfizer) and Maddy Kennedy (UNC Hospitals)
Congratulations to two of our very own lab members for their successful contributions to this article.
Learn more about the role of miR-2392 in driving SARS-CoV-2 infection:
Both papers featuring the Schisler Lab landed on the cover with pictures from the ISS taken by Scott Kelly (one of the twins from the twin study, whose data we used in these papers)!
They got some nice press too:
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/ames/mitochondria-cell-science
https://www.cnn.com/2020/11/25/health/biology-of-spaceflight-studies-wellness-scn-trnd/index.html
https://www.popsci.com/story/science/spaceflight-human-body-effects/
da Silveira WA, Fazelinia H, Rosenthal SB, Laiakis EC, Kim MS, Meydan C, Kidane Y, Rathi KS, Smith SM, Stear B, Ying Y, Zhang Y, Foox J, Zanello S, Crucian B, Wang D, Nugent A, Costa HA, Zwart SR, Schrepfer S, Elworth RAL, Sapoval N, Treangen T, MacKay M, Gokhale NS, Horner SM, Singh LN, Wallace DC, Willey JS, †Schisler JC, Meller R, McDonald JT, Fisch KM, Hardiman G, Taylor D, Mason CE, Costes SV, Beheshti A. Cell. 2020 Nov 25;183(5):1185-1201.e20. doi: 10.1016/j.cell.2020.11.002. PMID: 33242417
Circulating miRNA Spaceflight Signature Reveals Targets for Countermeasure Development.
Malkani S, Chin CR, Cekanaviciute E, Mortreux M, Okinula H, Tarbier M, Schreurs AS, Shirazi-Fard Y, Tahimic CGT, Rodriguez DN, Sexton BS, Butler D, Verma A, Bezdan D, Durmaz C, MacKay M, Melnick A, Meydan C, Li S, Garrett-Bakelman F, Fromm B, Afshinnekoo E, Langhorst BW, Dimalanta ET, Cheng-Campbell M, Blaber E, Schisler JC, Vanderburg C, Friedländer MR, McDonald JT, Costes SV, Rutkove S, Grabham P, Mason CE, Beheshti A. Cell Rep. 2020 Nov 21:108448. doi: 10.1016/j.celrep.2020.108448. Online ahead of print. PMID: 33242410
Read the commentary on these two papers, published in Cell and Cell Reports: