News, UPdates, & Events

Upcoming

Seminar Series of Interest:

• Penn RNP Group Meetings

• Distinguished Lectures in Cancer Research

• Events and Seminars in RadOnc

• Institute for Diabetes, Obesity & Metabolism Smilow Center: IDOM/DRC series

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Fall

• Annual pumpkin picking/ Maze wandering

• Annual Lab Phillies game!

• Lab attends CSHL- Translational control 2024

• New co-author publication out with Amy Lee’s group

Summer

• CSConn receives NIH MIRA R35 award

• SUPERS retreat

• Lab D.E.A.R. Beach Day

• Nora receives perfect score on F31 NIH; 1%

• Nora & Morgan present at RadOnc on RNA Day AUG 1st ;)

Welcome Keiko Luke joining the lab as SUPERS scholar & Hemanta Adhikari joining as PURM scholar!

Spring

Welcome Vinny Dong joining the lab as PURM scholar!

• CSConn invited speaker at University of Pittsburg, Dept. of Cell Biology by Deepika Vasudevan

• Spring planting/replanting

• Lab outing to Longwood Gardens

• Ian receives 2024 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship!

January -March Welcome Ian Yannuzzi joining the lab during their Winter rotations!

• Ashley gets accepted to CB program @Penn!

• CSConn invited speaker at Wistar Institute, Molecular and Cellular Oncogenesis Program by Maureen Murphy

• CSConn is nominated and received the 2024 Michael P. Nusbaum Graduate Student Mentoring Award!

• CSConn invited speaker at University of Michigan, Department of Biological Chemistry by Rachel Niederer

2023

End of Semester:

• Birthday Celebrations, RadOnc Drive for Philly Communities & Lab Holiday Party!

• CSConn invited speaker at BMB retreat & Nora presents her 1st poster!

• Lab Game Nights

Fall Outings & Activities

• Labs’-giving at Nora’s new place

• Pumpkin carving on Halloween!

• Apple picking, Corn maze wandering, Pumpkin sourcing

• Celebrating Nobel mRNA!

• Local hiking / nature wandering

• 1st Lab Phillies Game, off to the Playoffs thanks to the Howard Family!

September: Excited to have Sayantani join the lab as a Postdoctoral Scholar! Welcome Anna during her Fall rotation :)

Summer Shenanigans

August

• Tanis starts her first year as a Cancer Bio Graduate student!

• RadOnc DEI donations go out to support local West Philadelphia school

• Lucy does a phenomoneal job describing her summer research aims, progress, and future plans

• Lab’s 1st invited review is out: The integrated stress response in cancer progression: a force for plasticity and resistance

  Marissa joins the lab as ResearchSpecialist, welcome!

June: Welcome SUPERS student- Lucy Kamlewechi, joining the lab for Summer research experience!

Spring

February

• New collaborator paper out with the Fan Lab! Duo discovered that the tumor microenvironment induces ATF4-mediated PHGDH expression, that regulates endothelial glycolysis -> leading to overgrowth. '“Reprogramming endothelial metabolism by targeting PHGDH may offer a unique opportunity to improve T cell-based immunotherapy”

• Happy International Day of Women in Science to all!
  … especially these 4 fantastic researchers :)

2022

End of Semester:

• Lab Game Nights, Birthday Celebrations, Lab’sGiving, Decorations, RadOnc Drive for Philly Communities & Lab Holiday Party!

• Crys receives- DoD Hypothesis Development Award for Prostate Cancer research examining RNA dynamics

Fall Lab Outings

• Field Wandering, Corn Mazing, Pumpkin Picking

• Local Leaf Peeping & Hike with the ModzLab in 360

• Halloween Festivities

September: Welcome Morgan joining the lab during her Fall rotation!

• Virtual CSHL-Translational Control viewing Party

• 2022 Fall Research Expo- Julia presenting summer research!

Summer Shenanigans

July

Welcome Nora, first official graduate student of the lab! & welcome BACK Caleb, returning as a Research Specialist :)

June

Welcome SUPERS student- Mariaassumpta Ezedimma joining the lab for first research experience!

CSConn is honored to give an invited talk for the Women in STEM at Penn Research Symposium

May

CSConn gives invited talk at the Abramson Cancer Center Radiobiology and Imaging (RBI) Retreat

Spring Semester

Welcome Pratibha Srivastava, first Postdoctoral Researcher in the lab!

Welcome Ashvathi Raghavakaimal joining the lab during her Spring rotation

Introduction to CSConn during a TAA Member Spotlight

January - Febrary

Welcome Ellen Lavorando, Romie Azor & Maya Foster joining the lab during their Winter rotations

• CAMB , BMB, PGG graduate interview weekends begin

• BHM donation drive across RadOnc w/Philly Unknown-we raised 1750 items together for a great cause!

2021

Fall Semester Activities

September

• CSConn invited speaker at the 7th Conference on Tumor Microenvironment and Cellular Stress

• Welcome to the lab Nora- 1st CAMB graduate rotation student! Fellow RNA fan :)

• Welcome to the lab Julia- undergraduate researcher interested in cancer Biology

August

Hiring Freeze ends::: New Research Specialist joins the lab- Welcome Tanis Dorwart!

• RadOnc DEI donations go out to support local West Philadelphia school!

• Caleb presents at the SUPERS symposium, wrapping of his summer project(s). Hope to see you back at Penn shortly :)

• Susana presents her poster at the SUIP symposium & completes her summer research; first experience in the lab! Such fantastic growth over these few weeks. We all look forward to your future research endeavors!

June- July

Welcome Susana Pariona & Caleb Lines, joining as Summer Undergraduate Researchers!

• New Paper released in collaboration with the Fruman Lab, Congratulations!

• CSConn invited as a speaker for the Center of Excellence for Prostate Cancer at Mount Sinai

• Lab Hanguts, JCs, and practices with local eats :)

• Caleb gives chalk talk for SUPERS & Susana presents at national Alliance conference

Archive-

January 2021

• Lab construction complete- research can begin!

• Our RadOnc DEI site is officially live!

• CAMB & PGG graduate interview weekends

February ‘21

• New research just released!!!- Conn et al studying select translational control during High-Fat Diet

  -press release:: Store fat or burn it? Targeting a single protein flips the switch

• Our RadOnc donations for PhillyUnknown are taking place across the Department for Black History Month!
  
  

Spring ‘21

• CSConn gives talk for Breakthrough Bike Challenge 2021 Increasing Cadence Research Update

• CSConn joins the RadOnc team to speak on careers at local Philly H.S.

• CSConn gives talk to Tumor Microenvironment (TME) group @Penn

• Brian & Crys work with the RadOnc DEI & PhillyUnknown for donating >1k items to those in need

• CSConn gives talk to Penn RNA group

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