Postdocs Yuki and Kiyo were co-organizers of the recent Asia fest in WTI and graduate students Alex and Jesse enjoyed crafting origami and tasting the food!
Asia fest in WTI
Welcoming new lab members
We celebrated the arrival of Dr. Kiyotaka Saitou, a new postdoc from Japan, as well as 3 graduate students (Jesse Stillwell, Alex Torrelli-Dijohn, and Rashed Parag)
Dr. Kiyotaka Saitou 
Jesse Stillwell 
Alex Torrelli-Dijohn 
Rashed Parag
Team ice cream outing
The team had a much-needed ice cream outing to celebrate Alex’s birthday, Taka’s paper, and Rashed’s new baby.
Taka publishes his first manuscript
February 22, 2022: Congratulations to Takahiro Yamamoto (Post Doc) for his first manuscript in our lab. This collaborative study with our colleagues at Emory University was published in Experimental Neurology and demonstrates an important role for adhesion GPCR BAI1 (ADGRB1) in the brain. Read his manuscript here.
Devulapalli presents at SEMSS
January 29, 2022: Rishi Devulapalli, MSTP trainee presented a virtual poster at the Southeastern Medical Scientist Symposium based on the research he performed during his lab rotation under the mentorship of Dr. Yuki Kuranaga.
Happy hour at Ghost Train Brewery
Happy hour at Ghost train brewery to celebrate the submission of a team science grant (Drs. Ryan Miller, Jake Chen, Satoru Osuka, Erin Ahn, and Dr. Van Meir)
Celebrating Yuki’s birthday
We had an outing at a local bowling alley to celebrate Yuki’s bday!
Lab outing at Monday Night Brewery
We had a lab outing at the Monday Night Brewery to celebrate Dr. Van Meir and Billie’s birthday on November 16, 2021!
Elkholy joins lab for rotation
Amr graduated from School of Pharmacy at Alexandria University, Egypt, where he realized that, at present, therapeutics failed to cure some diseases, such as tumors, which are difficult to be understood on a molecular basis. His research was mainly focusing on the signaling pathway in colon cancer and the interplay between the microbiome and tumors. He is interested to learn more about the molecular pathology of brain tumors.
Summer lab party
We had a blast at this summer party, hosted by Dr. Van Meir!
