Fellowships

Fellowships

Previous Wagner Fellowship Recipients

2010-11

Wagner Fellows 2010-2011

Han Dong: "My research focuses on exploring the role of CD27-CD70 signal in formation of CD8+ T cell memory during viral infection."

Roman Mrozowski: "My research focuses on developing novel therapies targeting RSK to reduce tumor growth and metastasis."

Katarzyna Ludwik: "I am interested in how ERK8 controls genomic integrity by coupling centrosome assembly and DNA synthesis."

Han Dong Roman Mrozowski
Katarzyna Ludwik

Bullock Lab

Lannigan Lab

Lannigan Lab


2009-10

Wagner Fellow 2009

Sutirtha Datta: "I work on the mechanism of Oxidative stress induced mis-localization of Ubc9, the SUMO E2 ligase, in the Hutchinson Gilford Progeria Syndrome(HGPS). HGPS is a premature aging syndrome and a loss of nuclear SUMOylation is one of the key novel cellular phenotypes of the disease. My work involves studying organelle specific defects arising out of elevated ROS levels in HGPS, and how these lead to loss of Ubc9 nuclear localization, thereby causing a loss of nuclear SUMOylation."

Sutirtha Datta
Bryce Paschal Lab


2008-09

wagner-fellows-08-09.jpg Budhaditya Banerjee: "My project: Role of MPS1 in segregation of Chromosomes."

Barbara Merk: "I am studying STAT-5 signaling in Glioblastoma Multiforme (GBM). Specifically, I am interested in how STAT-5 activity modulates the proliferation, invasiveness and survival of glioma cells."

Joan Yuan: "My research focuses on elucidating the role of the Myb proto-oncogene in the CD4+ CD8+ double positive stage of T cell development." - Post-doc NIH/NIAID Integrative Immunology Unit

Budhaditya Banerjee
Barbara Merk
Joan Yuan
Stukenberg Lab
Hussaini Lab Bender Lab
2009

 

2007-08

wagner-fellows-07-08.jpg Mark J. Axelrod: "The goal of my work is to rationally design novel cancer therapies using combinations of inhibitors against specific cellular targets."

Michael F. Gutknecht: "I study cellular signaling mechanisms that control macrophage migration, with a focus on the role of focal adhesion kinase."

Michael C. Regan: "My research is concerned with the fusion protein AML-1/ETO and it's role in hematopoiesis."

Glen A. Bjerke: "My research focuses on the role of homeodomain transcription factors and TGF-B in cancer."
Mark J. Axelrod Michael F. Gutknecht Michael C. Regan Glen A. Bjerke
Weber
Lab
Bouton
Lab
Bushweller
Lab
Wotton
Lab








 

2006-07

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Colin Brinkman: "I hope to graduate in 2010. I am studying the CD8 T cell response to dendritic cell immunization. I am particularly interested in the development of memory T cell subsets and the factors that control memory lineage choice in this model." Post-doc CVRC UVA

Marcin Walkiewicz: "I work on Adenovirus in Daniel Engel’s Lab. We are trying to identify additional functions of viral proteins, especially those that regulate gene expression during early-to-late switch in viral infection." Post-doc NIH, NCI Center for Cancer Research
Colin Brinkman
Marcin Walkiewicz
Engelhard Lab
D. Engel Lab
2010
2010

 

2005-06

wagner-fellows-05-06 Angela Groehler: "My research seeks to define the role of the Ribosomal S6 Kinase family in ovarian cancer." Res. Assoc, U Col. Cell & Dev. Biology

Joan Yuan
: "I hope to graduate in 2009 (started 2004). My area of research is T cell development or more specifically, the role of c-Myb at the CD4 and CD8 double positive stage of T cell development." Post-doc NIH NIAD

Madhura Lohia: "I am working on: Mechanisms that govern polarity in epithelial cells."

Mingda Hang: "My research is studying the role of chromatin in gene regulation." UVA Law
Angela Groehler Joan Yuan
Madhura Lohia
Mingda
Hang
Lannigan
Lab
Bender Lab Macara
Lab
Mitch.
Smith Lab
2010
2009
2011
2010




 

2004-05

wagner-fellows-04-05 Ashley Blair: "My research is studying the role of cofactor of BRCA1 in transcriptional regulation." INC Research Inc. (Clinical Research Firm)

Jessica Pritchard: "I study molecular Carcinogenesis."

Randy Schrecengost: "I am currently studying signaling pathways involved in metastasis of breast cancer." Post-doc in Cancer Biology, T. Jefferson Univ., Philadelphia

Ashley Blair Jessica Pritchard Randy Schrecengost
Rong Li S. Parsons Lab Bouton Lab
2007 2011 2009


2003-04

Robin Lester
Jessica Pritchard Robin Lester: My thesis is on "Breast cancer cell migration under hypoxia". Basically, I study the signaling pathways and receptor systems involved in stimulating breast cancer cell migration induced by hypoxia. This is important because these pathways may lead to disease progression and may also explain the poorer prognosis predicted for patients whose primary tumors show extensive areas of necrosis. Transferred to UCSD in 2004, Law office of Asaph Abrams, San Diego

Jessica Pritchard:
"I study molecular Carcinogenesis."
Robin Lester Jessica Pritchard
w/ Dr. Gonias to UCSD S. Parsons Lab
2008
2011