Sergiu Pasca, MD Kenneth T. Norris, Jr. Professor, Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences Stanford University Research focus Understanding human brain assembly and the molecular mechanisms that lead to neuropsychiatric disease using neural organoids Faculty host Gr茅gory Scherrer, PharmD, PhD More about the speaker聽 Trained as a physician in Romania, Dr. Sergiu Pasca, came for postdoctoral … Read more
Jack Bennett (Cook lab) Intracellular pH can be manipulated by inhibiting ion transporters, and these changes can be measured by flow cytometry pH manipulations may alter cell cycle progression, arresting cells in the G1 phase of the cell cycle Lauren Griffith (Williams lab) Explore how integrin-尾1 and its adaptor protein Talin loss-of function … Read more
Michelle LaBella (Yeh lab) TNIK is required to restrain tumor invasion in PDAC Clear difference in mechanism when compared to colorectal/lung cancer TNIK is a newly identified regulator of PLAT, tPA expression and ECM modulation through fibrin degradation New mechanism for PDAC invasion and metastasis, may be what restrains classical tumors Mady Chlebowski … Read more
Anna Beeson (Caron lab) Adrenomedullin robustly increases both mouse fertility and pinopode formation Alternative model systems are allowing us to interrogate pinopode formation in novel ways Vickie Williams (Cohen lab) Dimerization fluorescent proteins are a useful tool that can show increased ER-LD contacts under conditions of lipid droplet biogenesis Dimerization-dependent fluorescent proteins can … Read more
