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Nathan successfully defended his thesis entitled “Nanoscale architecture of F-BAR proteins and the Schizosaccharomyces pombe contractile ring.” His thesis work has been published in numerous papers and he has written numerous reviews: McDonald NA, Gould KL. Linking up at the BAR: oligomerization and F-BAR protein function. Cell cycle (Georgetown, Tex.). 2016 May 31.PMID: 27245932. McDonald… Read More

Alaina successfully defended her thesis "Mechanisms regulating cytokinetic contractile ring formation and anchoring Schizosaccharomyces pombe." We celebrated all of Alaina's contributions to the lab and scientific community including mentorship of rotation students (e.g. Chloe) and undergraduates (e.g. Hannah), quantitative microscopy techniques that she learned at Woods Hole,and the widespread adaptation of the… Read More

Luul Aden has spent the last 8 weeks working in the Gould lab and today she presented her work at the VSSA 15thAnnual Student Research Symposium. After this summer, Luul will start her junior year at Vanderbilt as a Molecular Biology major. In the future, Luul hopes to go to medical… Read More

Read Gould lab postdoc Sierra Cullati’s paper A bifurcated signaling cascade of NIMA-related kinases controls distinct kinesins in anaphase” in the August issue of Journal of Cell Biology.  This paper shares some of her graduate thesis work from Scott Gerber’s lab at Dartmouth. In this paper,… Read More

Nashville, TN was in the path of totality for the Great American Solar Eclipse.  We observed the total eclipse from 1:27-1:29pm on Monday, August 21 and then celebrated this awesome event with delicious cake baked by undergrad Maya. … Read More