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 […]
New publication about ocular blood vessel regression
Congrats to Chris Schafer for his newly published manuscript in PNAS describing a novel way to regress pathological blood vessels in mouse eyes. Many thanks as well to our collaborators across the street at the Dean McGee Eye Institute and to George Davis at USF. Check out the following press coverage: https://omrf.org/2020/10/06/omrf-discovery-holds-potential-for-reversing-vision-loss/ OMRF testing new […]
Good luck, Stacy!
The lab just said “goodbye” to its 4th student from the Visiting Graduate Traineeship Program–Katarzyna (Stacy) Borawska. Stacy spent the last year in the lab studying vascular development in the embryonic omentum with Dr. Matt Menendez. We wish her the best as she returns to Poland to defend her Masters thesis.