Beatrice was awarded the Landry Cancer Biology Consortium Fellowship and also passed her PQE!
Nothing can stop her!
Haigis Lab Retreat 2019
new rotation student
We welcome a new rotation student, Smriti Pandey.
She is BBS student and working on investigating the effects of RAF inhibitors in cells with WT BRAF during her rotation.
New Members
We are excited to introduce our new members, Marza and Alessandra. Marza is our new Lab Tech and Alessandra is an exchange student from Italy.
National Postdoc Appreciation Week
We celebrated National Postdoc Appreciation Week! Thank you, Postdocs!
Doug's paper is published in Cell Systems
Click here and check the full paper
Our three studies about KRAS mutations featured in the BIDMC news
Trio of Studies Show that Gene Mutation, Tissue Location and Signaling Networks Drive Cancer Incidence and Severity
Written by Alice McCarthy (BIDMC correspondent) Media Contact: Jacqueline Mitchell, 617-667-7306, jsmitche@bidmc.harvard.edu SEPTEMBER 11, 2019
Please click the following link for more details
https://www.bidmc.org/about-bidmc/news/2019/09/haigis-trio-of-studies
Cutie in the Haigis Lab
We had a special guest, Sully, Christian’s adorable boy.
We had so much fun and were happy to have you here.
New Graduate Student
We are excited to announce that Beatrice Awasthi is our new graduate student of the Haigis Lab! Beatrice rotated with us during the months of January and February and decided to join our lab for her Ph.D. research. Welcome Beatrice!
Welcome to the summer students
We are excited to have some new summer students in 2019!
Andrea Liu is (Top Left) from Hopkinton High School, Ariel Karson (Top right) is from Elon University, Sophia Lu (Bottom left) is from UC San Diego and Andrew Lu (Bottom right) is from Cranbrook Kingswood Highschool in Michigan. Hope you all build some great experiences and memories in the Haigis lab.
Congratulations to Shikha on her F31 Award!
Congratulations to Shikha for the funding of her NIH F31 grant, entitled “The mechanism of cancer-specific allele selection for K-RAS”.
new rotation student
Welcome to Haigis Lab. Lisa Situ is out new rotation student. She is the first year BBS student and during her rotation, she will be studying germline mutations in K-Ras to explore whether these enhance or diminish oncogenic K-Ras activity.
Shayna Stein awarded NIH predoctoral fellowship
Shayna has been awarded the Ruth L. Kirschstein Predoctoral Individual National Research Service Award from the NIH. Congratulations!
Emily's paper published in Cancer Discovery
The title is “Tissue-specific oncogenic activity of K-RasA146T”
Dr. Kevin Haigis' paper, "Tissue-specificity in cancer: The rule, not the exception" is published in SCIENCE perspectives
Read the full article on http://science.sciencemag.org/content/363/6432/1150
Bing Shui awarded albert J. Ryan Fellowship
Congratulations Bing! Albert J. Ryan Fellowship is for outstanding students who show promise of becoming research scholars and have a capacity to contribute to the advancement of knowledge of medical science. More details on (http://www.albertjryanfoundation.org/)
Welcome to our new rotation student!
We welcome Beatrice Awasthi, a first-year graduate student in the BBS PhD program. During her rotation, she will be working on the functional annotation of phospho-proteomic data and studying the effects of specific mutations on oncogenic K-Ras activity.
Dr. Haigis gives a talk and graduate students, Yi-Jang Lin & Shikha Sheth, presents posters at AACR
Jesse Lyons and Douglas Brubaker's colitis paper published in Science Signaling
Read the full research article on Integrated in vivo multiomics analysis identifies p21-activated kinase signaling as a driver of colitis: http://stke.sciencemag.org/content/11/519/eaan3580
