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We are excited to welcome Tony Rossi to the lab! Tony is a first-year IGP student who is spending his third rotation with us. He is working under the mentorship of post-doc Alaina Willet. We asked Tony a few questions to get to know him! How did you get here (e.g. Read More

Our 2017 paper “Phosphoinositide-mediated ring anchoring resists perpendicular forces to promote medial cytokinesis” was included in a cell division collection curated by JCB Board Member Rebecca Heald (Berkeley). The special collection includes primary research and reviews on mitosis and meiosis from many labs including papers from fellow Gould lab alumnus… Read More

Eric Zhang is an undergraduate student who will be doing research in our lab under the mentorship of post-doc Sierra Cullati.  Welcome, Eric!  We asked Eric a few questions to get to know him. What are you studying at Vanderbilt?  What are you thinking about doing after college? I’m currently… Read More

We are excited to welcome Ana Belen Iglesias-Romero!  Ana is a graduate student at Universidad Pablo de Olavide in Sevilla, Spain.  Read our interview with Ana to learn more about her. What is your project? My project is about the possible implications of the S. pombe MAPK effector from the cell integrity… Read More

This summer, undergraduate student HannahSofia Brown worked under the mentorship of graduate students Alaina Willet and Chloe Snider.  She also participated in programming for the Vanderbilt Summer Science Academy (VSSA; https://medschool.vanderbilt.edu/vssa/).  Hannah spent the summer investigating the contribution of phospholipids to cytokinesis.  She presented her poster entitled “Opy1 is associated with the… Read More