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Gould Lab celebrates the total eclipse

Jun. 6, 2018—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.     

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Congratulations, Dr. Jones!

Jun. 6, 2018—We celebrated our last defense of the summer! Christine Jones presented her thesis "Regulation of the key mitotic checkpoint protein Dma1 through post-translational modifications."  Thanks to all of Christine's friends and family who joined us for this occasion!  Christine has moved on to work as a Senior Associate Scientist at AxioMX (an Abcam company).  Christine's excellent...

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Nathan’s paper published in eLife

Jun. 6, 2018—Nathan's paper "Nanoscale architecture of the Schizosaccharomyces pombe contractile ring" is now published in eLife. (Click to read: eLife 2017;6:e28865).   In collaboration with Abigail Lind (Rokas Lab at Vanderbilt, ), Nathan used super-resolution microscopy to determine the spatial relationship of contractile ring proteins at nanoscale resolution. These results were further supported by intermolecular FRET analysis.  To read more,...

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Alumni highlights: Adam Bohnert’s paper featured in New York Times

Jun. 6, 2018—Adam Bohnert graduated from the Gould Lab in 2013, after which he joined Cynthia Kenyon's group at UCSF/Calico Life Sciences. He has been studying aging using the model systems of oogenesis in C. elegans and Xenopus. His findings have just been published in Nature. His results were also highlighted in The New York Times. Congratulations, Adam!  To...

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Visit Gould Lab posters at ASCB2017

Jun. 6, 2018—The Gould Lab is busy putting finishing touches on posters to present at ASCB.  We hope that you'll stop by our posters or otherwise find us to discuss about our latest results! Our official presentation times are:   

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