Congratulations to Uma on being selected as a 2016 Beckman Scholar!
Micah Feeney: Swanson School of Engineering 2016 Summer Internship
Congratulations to Micah on award of 2016 SSOE Summer Internship!
Tim Jackson and Deepthi Vijayraghavan: Best and Runner-up Tissue Engineering Poster at McGowan Institute Retreat
Clean sweep of the category! Congrats Tim Jackson and Deepthi Vijayraghavan!
SWNTS in embryos! Single-wall carbon nanotubes in early Xenopus embryos
Two new publications with collaborators Brian Holt and Drs. Mohammad Islam and Kris Dahl.
B. Holt, J. H. Shawky, K. N. Dahl, L. A. Davidson§, M. Islam§ (2016). Distribution of single-wall carbon nanotubes in the Xenopus laevis embryo after microinjection. Applied Toxicology. 36: 568-578. (§ contributed equally) PMID: 26510384.
B. Holt, J. H. Shawky, K. N. Dahl, L. A. Davidson§, M. Islam§ (2016). Developing Xenopus embryos recover by compacting and expelling single-wall carbon nanotubes. Journal of Applied Toxicology. 36: 579-585. (§ contributed equally). PMID: 26153061
Tim Jackson: AHA Fellows Research Day – 1st Place in Basic Science Presentation
Deepthi Vijayraghavan: “Best Predoctoral Presentation” at 9th International Neural Tube Defects Conference.
Deepthi presented “”The role of physical forces in shaping cell behaviors during convergent extension of the flat neural plate”” and received the “”Best Predoctoral Presentation”” award at the Ninth International Neural Tube Defects Conference, held in Austin, Texas, October 26-29, 2015. She is currently working on a review paper on the topic for the journal Birth Defects Research, Part B.
Tim Jackson: Travel Award to Attend 2015 American Society for Cell Biology Meeting
Tim will be presenting:
Mechanics serves as an instructional cue driving heart progenitor cells to undergo a mesenchymal-to-epithelial transition during early heart morphogenesis. Timothy R. Jackson, Hye Young Kim, and Lance A. Davidson
Shroom3 regulates myosin II distribution in planar cell polarity pathway during neural tube closure.
New publication from collaboration with Erica McGreevy and Jeff Hildebrand.
M. McGreevy. D. Vijayraghavan, L. A. Davidson and J. D. Hildebrand (2015). Shroom3 functions downstream of planar cell polarity to regulate myosin II distribution and cellular organization during neural tube closure. Biology Open . PMID: 25596276, PMCID: 4365487
Dr. Syed-Picard joins the Lab
Welcome! Dr. Fatima Syed-Picard joins the Lab. Fatima will be conducting research for the K99 phase of a NIH-K99/R00 grant from NIDCR: “Scaffold-Free Tissue Engineering: Using Principles from Developmental Biology to Support Craniofacial Regeneration.”
Review of adhesion and mechanics during morphogenesis.
New paper in Developmental Biology by Shawky and Davidson. Reviews the interplay between adhesion and mechanics during morphogenesis.