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May 28, 2025

  • Kaitlin Kellar (Arkansas State University) joins the lab for the INBRE Summer Research Program.

January 22, 2025

  • Our collaborators from the Forrest Lab published their study in Nature Communications with contributions from Mark.

January 1, 2025

  • Lucus Carreira (GPIBS Ph.D. student) joins the lab. Welcome!

November 8, 2024

  • Allie (INBRE ’24) is selected to present her summer work as one of 6 Biology talks (chosen from 150+ abstracts) at the Arkansas INBRE Conference.

September 23, 2024

  • We have two new preprints in bioRxiv including our MCL1-MARCHF5 project which our INBRE students have worked on the past year!
  • The Mitochondrial Ubiquitin Ligase MARCHF5 Cooperates with MCL1 to Inhibit Apoptosis in KSHV-Transformed Primary Effusion Lymphoma Cell Lines (Prasanth, Justine, Jax, Aly, Allie, Daniel, Mark)
  • Cytotoxicity of Activator Expression in CRISPR-based Transcriptional Activation Systems (Mark)

July 26, 2024

  • Allie finishes her INBRE Summer Internship in the lab. She presented her work at the Arkansas Undergraduate Summer Research Symposium last July 24. Her abstract was one of twelve chosen from 53 submissions to give an Oral Presentation in the main session (see below). Way to go Allie! And we are lucky to have you in the lab!

July 9, 2024

  • Our review article was just accepted at Current Clinical Microbiology Reports. Congratulations Justine and our collaborators from the Forrest Lab!

June 3, 2024

  • Allie Farrar from Hendrix College starts her Arkansas INBRE Summer Fellowship. She will be working on how MARCHF5 interacts with the pro-apoptotic protein NOXA.

August 1, 2023

  • The lab received R21 funding from the National Cancer Institute! We are grateful to the NIH/NCI for continuing to support our research.

May 26, 2023

  • We welcome Aly Navarro from UARK Fayetteville as our Arkansas INBRE Summer Fellow!

February 18, 2023

  • Our collaborative paper with the Gottwein Laboratory at Northwestern University is now out at Cell Death and Differentiation.

January 9, 2023

  • Jax Gill, a recent graduate from Henderson State University, joined our team as a research technician. We hosted Jax as an INBRE Summer Research Fellow this past summer.

November 23, 2022

  • Our first paper is out now at the Journal of Virology! Congratulations to Daniel, Prasanth and Jax!
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