Lab Diaries

20241120

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Congratulations to Caique (Cai) Costa who wins the 2nd place of Tulane 2024 Innovation Institute’s inaugural Open Season.

20241108

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Congratulations to Tian's group on Cells Review: Regulation of the Intestinal Stem Cell Pool and Proliferation in Drosophila.

20241101

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Congratulations to all authors on Science Advances publication: Sex-dimorphic tumor growth is regulated by tumor microenvironmental and systemic signals. DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.ads4229

20241025

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New member: Suzuka Masutani

20240617

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Congratulations to all authors on Nature Communications publication: Topoisomerase I is an evolutionarily conserved key regulator for satellite DNA transcription.

20240521

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Congratulations to Cristian Santiago for passing his Prelim.

20240508

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Congratulations to Anindita Barua for passing her Prelim.

20240426

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Congratulations to Anindita Barua who's study receives partly support from Ladies Leukemia League.

20240425

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Congratulations to Caique (Cai) Costa who was a finalist for Tulane Innovation Institute's Open MIC Night.

20231130

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Congratulations to Caique (Cai) Costa Passing the prospectus.

20230826

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Congratulations to Deeptiman Chatterjee M.D. for winning 2022-2023 Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Best research paper by a graduate student.

20230630

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Congratulations to all authors on Science Advances publication: Integrating lipid metabolism, pheromone production and perception by Fruitless and Hepatocyte Nuclear Factor 4. 

20230518

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Congratulations to Yichi Zhang M.D. for winning Tulane 34 award.

20230421

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Congratulations: I.  Caique "Cai" Almeida Machado Costa for passing preliminary examination. II. Wenkan Wu successfully defended the Master Thesis "Drosophila Tumor Bulk RNA-seq Comparison". III Adam Aldahir and Richard Dong received Louisiana Cancer Research Center summer research internships. 

20230127

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Congratulations to authors, the review article "Tumor models in various Drosophila tissues" made to the top downloaded articles in the Journal in 2022.  Here

20230118

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Congratulations to Authors on Cell Reports : Cell polarity opposes Jak-STAT mediated Escargot activation that drives intratumor heterogeneity in a Drosophila tumor model

20221102

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Congratulations to Authors on eLife . : Single-cell transcriptomics identifies Keap1-Nrf2 regulated collective invasion in a Drosophila tumor model.

20221101

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New Post-Doc: Dr. Youfang Zhou

20220916

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Congratulations to Authors on Dev Biol . : Developmental regulation of epithelial cell cuboidal-to-squamous transition in Drosophila follicle cells

20220811

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Congratulations to Authors on EMBO J : Damage-induced regeneration of the intestinal stem cell pool through enteroblast mitosis in the Drosophila midgut

20220613

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New members: Anindita Barua, and Cristian A. Sanitago-Santiago

20211215

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Congratulations to Dr. Xian-Feng Wang for receiving 2021 Departmental Synergy Awards: best research paper contributed by a postdoc or junior nonfaculty research scientist in the department.

20211202

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Congratulations to our newest PhD, Dr. Deeptiman Chatterjee.

20210924

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Congratulations to Authors on this Review article : Polyploidy in development and tumor models in Drosophila

20210827

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Congratulations to Authors on Cells: Modeling Notch-Induced Tumor Cell Survival in the Drosophila Ovary Identifies Cellular and Transcriptional Response to Nuclear NICD Accumulation.

20210827

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New members: Adam Aldahir, Wenkan Liu, and Megan Rasmussen 

20210730

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FOX8 News: Fly Bayou - The tiny fruit fly helps researchers in the fight against cancer

20210527

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Congratulations to Xianfeng Wang and Shang-An Yang on Dev Cell: Polyploid mitosis and depolyploidization promote chromosomal instability and tumor progression in a Notch-induced tumor model.

20210323

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Big lessons from tiny flies by Yichi Zhang

20210301

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New research staff Sarah Kohoutek and Virginia Morejon jointed the lab

20210223

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Congratulations to Shangyu Gong and Yichi Zhang on WIREs Mechanisms of Disease: Tumor Models in Various Drosophila Tissues.

20210202

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Congratulations to Shangyu Gong and Yichi Zhang on JOVE: Tumor Allotransplantation in Drosophila melanogaster with a Programmable Auto-Nanoliter Injector.

20201201

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New research staff Calder Ellsworth jointed the lab

20200901

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New Post-Doctor Chun-Ming "Jimmy" Lai jointed the lab

20200226

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Dr. Aiguo Tian jointed the lab as Assistant Professor

20200202

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Congratulations to Deeptiman Chatterjee and Allison Jevitt on PLoS BIO: A single-cell atlas of adult Drosophila ovary identifies transcriptional programs and somatic cell lineage regulating oogenesis.

20200123

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New Post-Doctors Drs Hongcun Bao and Fei Cong jointed the lab