News

Rebecca LaVictoire has just joined the lab as a research tech.  Rebecca spent the past several months in the jungle studying the behavior of rhesus macaques.  Here she’s thinking “hmmm, maybe I’ve made a big mistake”.   Lets hope not.  Welcome Rebecca!

We are excited to have Alisha Asif join the lab.  Alisha is a junior at Oklahoma High School for Science and Mathematics.  She’ll be exploring mechanisms of chromosome cohesion in mitosis and meiosis.  Here she is learning the joys of tetrad dissection with Regis.

Régis has just been awarded a grant from the National Cancer Institute for his research on aneuploidy.  Congrats!!

Emily Kurdzo published the first portion of her thesis research in GENETICS.

Early version is on-line now.  The Journal version coming soon…..

Congratulations to Emily Kurdzo who passed her thesis defense today!  Emily is moving on to a post-doc at Harvard where she’ll be working on “an organism with vertebrae”.  (Emily – you’ll miss those spineless yeast, and we’ll miss you).

Good luck!!

Former graduate student Robert Shanks, (Research Director, Charles T. Campbell Laboratory of Ophthalmic Microbiology, Associate Professor, Departments of Ophthalmology and Microbiology and Molecular Genetics University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine – that Rob Shanks) stopped by  the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center last week to give a seminar about his recent research (Bacteria Blowing Corneal Epithelial Cell Bubbles with GumB).  Nice to see him!

Earlier days in the Dawson lab