Spring 2024
Three Undergraduate 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
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!
Proud of Akshita Krishnan for receiving the President’s Award for her research poster in the SPUR Capstone Summer Research Symposium.
Congrats to our LSAMP student Paulina Trevino for winning first place for her research presentation in the LSAMP conference hosted by UTEP.
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!
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!
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!
Summer 2022
Welcome to Clark Summer Scholars Abhiram Kodali and Zaara Siddiki.
Congratulations to Hsin-Jung on transferring to the Molecular and Cell Biology PhD program!
Congratulations to Jacqulene on receiving the Graduate Research and Cancer Education (GRACE) Fellowship Award!
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