February 8, 2024
Kat presented her work on SLC16A14 and Fibrolamellar Cancer at the Academic Surgical Congress this past week (full oral presentation) and really did an outstanding job. The presentation was very well received and Kat deftly answered questions posed to her. Outstanding job Kat!
October 24, 2023
Congratulations to Crystal Cafferty on an outstanding oral presentation at the American College of Surgeons conference! Crystal presented her work on CDK7 as a target in Fibrolamellar carcinoma.
May 24, 2023
Crystal Cafferty was selected for a full oral presentation at the American College of Surgeons conference (October 22-25, 2023). Outstanding job Crystal on your work evaluating CDK7 as a target in Fibrolamellar carcinoma!
March 27, 2023
Congratulations to Matt Shen on your prestigious University of Wisconsin Sophomore Research Fellowship Award!
March 14, 2023
Congratulations to Patrick Schwartz on his recent publication in Chronobiology International evaluating the effect of chronic jetlag on pancreas cancer development! This was a long haul, but we got there.
December 1, 2022
Congratulations to Patrick Schwartz on a successful PhD Thesis Defense! Patrick is now in his final 3 clinical years of surgical training and will soon be applying for surgical oncology fellowships. Outstanding work Patrick!
July 6, 2022
Welcome Desmond Layne to the laboratory! Desmond is a Surgery Resident at UW Madison and has completed 2 years of clinical training. He was the recipient of the Surgical Oncology T32 Training Grant Award and will be performing a 2-year post-doctoral research fellowship.
June 2022
Welcome (back) Katerina Zahed and Crystal Cafferty to the laboratory starting June 2022! Katerina is an undergraduate at Tulane and this is her third summer in the lab, while Crystal is an undergraduate at UW Madison and this is her first time in the lab. Both are considering Medical School as next step in career.
January 2022
Welcome to the laboratory Isabelle Yun. Isabelle is an undergraduate at UW Madison and is considering either Graduate School or Medical School following undergraduate.
January 2022
Congratulations to Patrick Schwartz on his publication in Pancreas titled Chronic Jetlag Alters the Landscape of the Pancreatic Lipidome.
January 2022
Morgan Walcheck is starting her post-doctoral studies in Dr. Trista North’s laboratory at Harvard / Boston Childrens! Way to go Morgan!
December 17, 2021
A huge congratulations to Morgan Walcheck for successfully defending her Thesis and obtaining her PhD! Her Thesis is titled The Role of Aryl Hydrocarbon Receptor in the Development of Mutant-Kras Driven Cancers.
November 4, 2021
Congratulations to Morgan Walcheck on her publication in PlosOne titled Sex-dependent development of Kras-induced anal squamous cell carcinoma in mice.
September 1, 2021
Morgan Walcheck received the prestigious UW OVCRGE Wisconsin Distinguished Graduate Morgridge Biotechnology Fellowship award! Congrats Morgan!
May 31, 2021
Congratulations to Patrick Schwartz on his publication in Physiological Genomics titled Chronic jetlag-induced alterations in pancreatic diurnal gene expression.