Happy Birthday to Joe!
And many thanks for Andrea to bring the fabulous cheese cake!
Continue reading “Happy Birthday to Joe!”
Big Congrats to Our Summer Student Xiaohe “Amy” Xie!
Today we celebrate the end of Amy’s fruitful summer doing research with us. Amy is a rising senior student at Peking University and she spent two months here as one of the 2019 International Summer Research Experience for Undergraduates Program scholars. Under the mentorship of Peter and Ali, Amy has generated lots of data and showcased her excellent critical thinking skills and technical prowess with an impressive presentation in front of UChicago faculty and students. We’re so happy to have met her and we wish her all the best with her graduate school applications!
Continue reading “Big Congrats to Our Summer Student Xiaohe “Amy” Xie!”
Jiyoung’s Farewell BBQ
As Jiyoung’s ready for the next stage of her career at George Washington University, we gathered at Marsha’s house for a farewell Korean style BBQ. We’ll miss her and the little ones!
Continue reading “Jiyoung’s Farewell BBQ”
Congratulations to Perla for Completing Summer Internship!
We are happy to have Perla for two summers at the lab. Perla Grimaldo-Ramirez is the Junior Class President of Pomona College and she for the past two summers she worked with Nykia. We wish her all the best in her future career!
Continue reading “Congratulations to Perla for Completing Summer Internship!”
Celebrating Jiyoung’s New Job at the George Washington University
Congratulations to Dr. Jiyoung Lee for accepting her new job offer at the GWU! Starting this September, Jiyoung will join the George Washington University as an assistant professor at the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Medicine. On behalf of the lab, Dr. Rosner presented a special mug to Jiyoung as a celebratory gift. Andrea brought quiche, lemon curd parfait and cupcakes all made by herself. They are absolutely amazing!
Continue reading “Celebrating Jiyoung’s New Job at the George Washington University”
Official Graduation of Ali and Payal
Congratulations to Ali and Payal for officially becoming doctors! On Friday, Marsha hooded both of them at the Divisional Academic Ceremony. We’re glad to have Payal visiting us from Boston.
Continue reading “Official Graduation of Ali and Payal”
Happy Birthday to Ali!
This is Ali’s first birthday as a PhD! Now that he’s a postdoc instead of grad student, his birthday cake has been upgraded with more candles.
Payal Published a New Paper!
Payal’s paper “Metabolically activated adipose tissue macrophages link obesity to triple-negative breast cancer” was just published in Journal of Experimental Medicine! The paper is a great showcase of her thesis project.
New Nature Paper
Our lab’s latest paper “Effective breast cancer combination therapy targeting BACH1 and mitochondrial metabolism” is now on Nature. The Advance Online Publication is accessible here: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-019-1005-x
The Histones Winter Concert
Students and faculty members enjoyed the a cappella concert last Friday by the Histones group. The last song was dedicated to Ali, the founder of the Histones. We will truly miss him when he graduates!
Highlights from the concert:
A PhD is Born!
Huge CONGRATULATIONS to Ali for becoming a doctor! His thesis defense, titled “Discovery of anti-metastatic therapies guided by the physiological suppressor Raf Kinase Inhibitory Protein”, was attended by professors, friends, and family. Ali’s thesis defense went through smoothly this morning, with several jokes, funny stories, and a very moving acknowledgement. The thesis committee members all voted Yay after the presentation, so now we have Dr. Yesilkanal! Continue reading “A PhD is Born!”
Happy Birthday to Janie!
We celebrate the birthday of Janie, our administrator at the department. Thank you Marsha for getting the awesome cheese cake! Continue reading “Happy Birthday to Janie!”
Farewell to Dr. Tiwari!
We are so proud that Dr. Payal Tiwari earned her PhD degree here and will now continue her academic career at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston! Continue reading “Farewell to Dr. Tiwari!”
Happy Birthday to Marsha!
We celebrated Marsha’s birthday with a fantastic pot luck lunch! Thanks everyone bringing the delicious food! Thanks to our social committee chair Dr. Walker for organizing!
Happy Birthday to Joe!
Today we celebrate Joe’s second birthday at the Rosner Lab! Wish him another year of happiness and science!
Ali Receives Prestigious Cancer Research Award
Congratulations to Ali for receiving the University of Chicago Cancer Research Foundation Elaine Ehrman Award!
Payal Completed Her Thesis Defense!
We are so proud of Payal for successfully defending her thesis! She is Dr. Payal Tiwari now!
Happy Birthday to Chris!
We celebrate the 20th Birthday of Chris! Chris joined the lab this spring as a freshman in the College. In addition to his individual research project, Chris has also been working with Dr. Lee and Dr. Wynne on their projects.
Dr. Walker Received the NIH T32 Grant!
We congratulate Nykia on winning the Postdoctoral T32 Training Grant from NIH!
