Congratulations to Darshil Patel for passing his A-Exam!!!

Darshil has proven he has the necessary skills to continue his thesis research as a PhD candidate!

His cake cutting skills still need improvement.

Congratulations to Tim Pierpont for taking second place at the 2015 Cornell Stem Cell Symposium poster competition!

INVESTIGTATING HOW THE DNA DAMAGE RESPONSE AND STEM CELL PROPERTIES OF TESTICULAR GERM CELL CANCERS INFLUENCE CHEMOSENSITIVITY

Pierpont, Timothy M.¹, Lyndaker, Amy M.¹, Anderson, Claire M.¹, Roden, Jamie L.¹, Bagepalli , Lina¹, Kataria, Nandita¹, Braxon, Alicia¹ , Hu, Hilary¹, Garness, Jason², Cook, Matthew S.², Capel, Blanche², Schlafer, Donald H.¹, Southard, Teresa¹, and Weiss, Robert S¹.

¹Department of Biomedical Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA and ²Department of Cell Biology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, USA

Congratulations to Dr. Robert Weiss on being promoted to full professor!

A well deserved promotion!

Here are some photos from the celebratory lab party

Congratulations to Gabi Balmus and co-authors!

Congratulations to Gabi Balmus and co-authors on the acceptance of their manuscript: 

"HUS1 regulates in vivo responses to genotoxic chemotherapies” for publication in Oncogene.

Congratulations to Pei Xin Lim and co-authors!

Congratulations to Pei Xin Lim and co-authors on acceptance of their manuscript:


"Genome Protection by the 9-1-1 Complex Subunit HUS1 Requires Clamp Formation, DNA Contacts, and ATR Signaling-Independent Effector Functions” for publication in the Journal of Biological Chemistry.

Congratulations Dr. Pei Xin Lim on receiving his PhD!

Pei Xin's research focused on elucidating the molecular interactions of HUS1 with DNA repair factors with the ultimate goal of formulating novel antitumor therapeutics.

Click here to see Pei Xin's full lab bio