The Griffin lab has been delighted to host Andrianna Buxton this summer through the new Langston Biomedical Research Scholars program at OMRF. Andrianna has spent two months working closely with Dr. Chris Schafer studying inflammatory factors that increase lung vascular permeability. We’re grateful for Andrianna’s hard work and hope to welcome her back to the […]
Saxon Scholar
The lab has had the pleasure of hosting Erika Willis, a rising Senior at the U.S. Air Force Academy, as our Saxon Scholar this summer. Erika spent a month working with Chris Schafer studying inflammation-induced vascular permeability in the lung. We are proud of Erika’s accomplishments in the lab this summer and wish her the […]
Graduate Student Scholarship
Congrats to Rahul Rajala for his OMRF Predoctoral Scholarship, which will fund his research on protease-activated receptors for the next academic year.
New publication on transcriptional regulators of Ripk3
The lab is pleased to announce another publication about RIPK3 biology in endothelial cells. Siqi Gao led a study showing that components of the NF-kB signaling pathway work to suppress excessive endothelial Ripk3 transcription and cell death after TNFα stimulation. This provides more evidence that Ripk3 must be tightly transcriptionally regulated to maintain vascular homeostasis.
New American Lung Association Catalyst Award
We are so proud of Dr. Chris Schafer for landing an American Lung Association Catalyst Award. Chris will use this career development award to study pulmonary vascular permeability under inflammatory conditions. Well done, Chris!
Griffin lab manuscript award
Congratulations to Sarah Colijn for winning the “Outstanding Paper Prize of 2020” from Disease Models & Mechanisms! We are so proud of Sarah’s rigorous research into cell-specific roles for RIPK3 in atherosclerosis progression.
Congrats to new Ph.D. candidates
The lab extends its sincere congratulations to Bridget and Rahul, who both successfully passed their qualifying exams last week and advanced to Ph.D. candidacy in OUHSC’s Department of Cell Biology. Courtney also thanks the lab’s postdocs for helping the students prepare so effectively.
New manuscript on pro-angiogenic roles for RIPK3
The lab is proud of Siqi’s new manuscript published in Angiogenesis that describes novel pro-angiogenic roles for RIPK3. This study adds to our lab’s growing evidence that RIPK3 can play beneficial roles in endothelial cells, in addition to detrimental ones when it is overexpressed.
Successful Vascular Biology 2020
The Griffin Lab thoroughly enjoyed NAVBO’s online Vascular Biology 2020 meeting, despite the ice storm that hit OKC early in the meeting and compromised power/internet for many of us. Congrats to Matt and Charmain for their oral presentations selected from abstract submissions and to Melinda (circled below) for winning an Outstanding Poster Award from the […]
Congratulations, Dr. Gao!
The Griffin lab was full of smiles and tears today as we celebrated Siqi’s successful Ph.D. defense! We will miss Siqi’s amazing presence in the lab but are excited that she’s staying in the vascular field, as she begins her postdoc with Dr. Mark Kahn at U. Penn next month. Many congrats, Siqi, for a […]