Fall 2024
Dibyo shared his exciting research in a poster presentation at UT Dallas Research Day.
Honored to give a talk at the inaugural AACR Grantee Meeting in Philadelphia to share our research supported by the Victoria’s Secret Global Fund for Women’s Cancers Career Development Award, in Partnership with Pelotonia & AACR.
Congratulations to Dibyo and Sharon for passing their PhD qualifying exams. Two more PhD candidates in the lab!
Welcome to UG students Abhira Ravirala, Juan Hernandez and Prasanna Padmanathan.
Summer 2024
LSAMP student Jacob Hernandez presented a poster of his summer research in the lab at the UT System LSAMP Conference at UT El Paso.
Emma and Akshita presented their summer research supported by URAP at the Summer Platform for Undergraduate Research Symposium at UT Dallas.
Umar attended the Society for the Study of Reproduction Annual Meeting in Dublin and presented a research poster. Congratulations to Umar for receiving the Betty and Gifford Johnson Travel Award and NSM Conference Travel Award to attend the conference!
Sharon presented her research in a poster presentation at the Immunometabolism in Health and Disease Gordon Research Conference and Gordon Research Seminar in Rhode Island. Congrats to Sharon for receiving the Graduate Student Assembly Award!
Grateful for the opportunity to give a talk at the Gordon Research Conference on Mammary Gland Biology in Il Ciocco, Italy. Congratulations to graduate student Subhajit for giving a platform presentation at the associated Gordon Research Seminar, presenting a poster at the GRC, and being awarded the Betty and Gifford Johnson Travel Award and Graduate Student Assembly Travel Award to attend the conference!
Congratulations to UG students Emma and Akshita on receiving Undergraduate Research Apprenticeship Program (URAP) Awards for doing research in the lab over the summer.
Spring 2024
Six high school students from the School of Science and Engineering presented their research in the lab performed under the supervision of graduate mentor Sharon at the Young Women in Science and Engineering Investigators Program poster presentation day at UT Dallas.
Ivan, Akshita and Emma presented their research at the Undergraduate Research Scholar Award poster presentation day.
Great representation of the lab at the Texas Forum for Reproductive Sciences: Graduate students Dibyo and Hsin-Jung presented research posters and Umar gave a platform presentation.
Congratulations to Jacqulene for winning second place in the Three Minute Thesis Competition at UT Dallas!
Three UG students in the lab, Akshita, Emma and Ivan, have been selected as semi-finalists in the Undergraduate Research Scholar Award competition!
Welcome to new Undergraduate student Walter Zachary Padilla.
Preprint alert: Our study on how obesity alters fat cell precursors in mammary tissue to promote a cancer-susceptible mammary gland is available on bioRxiv: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.12.28.573587v3
Fall 2023
Sharon and Jacqulene presented research posters at the San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium.
PhD candidates Subhajit and Jacqulene presented research posters at UT Dallas Research Day.
Congratulations to Subhajit Maity, Umar Patel & Jacqulene Preethi Sunder Singh for passing their Qualifying Exams. They are officially PhD candidates in the lab!
Honored to be awarded the 2023 Victoria’s Secret Global Fund for Women’s Cancers Career Development Award, in Partnership with Pelotonia & AACR for our breast cancer research!
Summer 2023
We received the UT Dallas Collaborative Biomedical Research Award (CoBRA) to pursue translational breast cancer research in collaboration with the Alluri Lab at UTSW. Super excited!
Congrats to our LSAMP student Paulina Trevino for winning first place for her research presentation in the LSAMP conference hosted by UTEP.
High school student Aalo gave an oral presentation of her summer research in the lab at the NanoExplorers Symposium.
Proud of Akshita Krishnan for receiving the President’s Award for her research poster in the SPUR Capstone Summer Research Symposium.
Saloni supported by The Anson L. Clark Summer Research Program and UG student Ivan presented posters at the SPUR Symposium.
Congratulations to Sharon on the GRACE Fellowship Award!
Happy to have Clark Scholar Saloni Maniar, NSF-funded Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation (LSAMP) Fellow Paulina Trevino and NanoExplorer high school student Aalo Choudhary join us for the summer.
Welcome to Undergraduate student Akshita Krishnan.
Spring 2023
Our YWISE Team Texvivo won first place in the UTD final competition! Kudos to high school students from the School of Science and Engineering and college mentor Sharon Kwende in the lab.
Welcome to PhD Student Dibyo Maiti and Undergraduate students Emma Unger and Ivan Tong.
Fall 2022
Dun Ning joins us as Research Technician II. Welcome to the lab Dun!
Graduate students Sharon and Umar presented posters at our first UT Dallas Research Day.
Welcome to Undergraduate student Prashant Nuthalapati, MSc student Achira Shah and PhD student Subhajit Maity.
We are happy to serve as the first Biology mentors at UT Dallas for the Young Women in Science Investigator Program (YWISEi), an outreach effort to promote girls in STEM. PhD student and graduate mentor, Sharon Kwende, is currently mentoring 4 high school students from the School of Science and Engineering magnet school in Dallas!
Congratulations to Hsin-Jung on transferring to the Molecular and Cell Biology PhD program!
Summer 2022
Abhiram and Zaara supported by The Anson L. Clark Summer Research Program presented posters at the Summer Platform for Undergraduate Research Symposium.
Congratulations to Jacqulene on receiving the Graduate Research and Cancer Education (GRACE) Fellowship Award!
Welcome to Clark Summer Scholars Abhiram Kodali and Zaara Siddiki.
Spring 2022
Welcome to new lab members- PhD students: Jacqulene Preethi Sunder Singh, Umar Jabir Patel, Sharon Angie Kwende, Douglas Grant Shryock; MSc students: Hina Zehra Kazim, Hsin-Jung Tien; Undergraduate students: Siddharth Reddy Soma, Ella Wynonah Quiambao
IBCC Protocol is approved
Fall 2021
Lab setup in progress!
IACUC Protocol is approved
New Stem Cell Biology Graduate Course offered at UT Dallas