Lab News
Shengchen’s new fascin paper published in Cell Reports
Delighted that our first paper on the role of mitochondrial actin filaments in lung cancer metastasis is published
@CellReports. Congratulations to Shengchen!
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2211124719310447?via%3Dihub
Investigators report that fascin, an actin-bundling protein, promoted lung cancer metastatic colonization by augmenting metabolic stress resistance and mitochondrial oxidative phosphorylation. [Cell Rep]
9/10/2019
Welcome Eric!
Eric Martine joins the lab as our new Research Technician this week. Eric recently received his Bachelor of Science in Biology from Susquehana University in Selinsgrove, PA. Welcome Eric!
10/19/2018
Tyler is leaving the lab
Tyler is joining our Moffitt alumni Leah Cooks lab at the University of Nebraska Medical Center. We wish him best of luck with his career!
The lab is receiving a new grant!
We receive news today that the Elsa U. Pardee Foundation is awarding a new grant to the lab to study a novel Fascin-Nrf2 signaling circuit in lung cancer metastasis and metabolic reprograming.
Tyler successfully defense his thesis
Tyler has successfully defensed his thesis on the role of fucosylation and calcium signaling in melanoma invasion and metastasis on Aug 31, 2018.
Shengchen won a poster award at the 2018 Metastasis Research Society Conference
Shengchen and Shengyu attended the Metastasis Research Society Conference in Princeton, New Jershey from August 1-5. Shengchen won a best poster award for his poster on the regulation of lung cancer metastasis and mitochondrial OXPHOS by fascin-mediated remodeling of the mitochondrial actin filament. Congratulations to Shengchen!
July 2018, Shengchen received Notice of Award for his DOD Concept Award!
Shengchen won a highly competitive Concept Award from the Department of Defense to study the role of mitochondrial dexoynucleoside salvage pathway in the self-renewal of cancer-stem like cells in non-small cell lung cancer. Congratulations, Shengchen!
July 30, 2018, Bowling weekend in Harrisburg
December, 2017, Welcome Xiuchao!
The lab welcome our new postdoctoral researcher Dr. Xiuchao Wang. Xiuchao come to us by way of the Tianjin Cancer Hospital and Tianjin Medical University in Tianjin China. Xiuchao is a surgical oncologist specialized in treatment of pancreatic cancer. His Ph. D. work focus on the regulation of the immune microenvironment in pancreatic cancer by FOXP3 transcription factor. Xiuchao will be studying the role of mitochondrial calcium signaling in metabolic stress resistance and oxidative stress response.