You can read Haein’s paper here. Congrats Haein!

Alex received this year’s Cathy Bulman Award for Best Poster Presentation for her work on the effects of Eg5 acetylation. Congratulations Alex!

Leslie Sepaniac and Alex Thompson were awarded the 1st and 2nd place prizes, respectively, for their talks at the Graduate Student and Postdoctoral Trainee Research showcase, which was part of the Larner College of Medicine’s Excellence in Research Celebration. Congrats Leslie and Alex!

Heidi organized and chaired the first ever Motile and Contractile Systems Gordon Research Symposium for students and postdocs. The one day symposium took place just before the start of the GRC.

Heidi Malaby, Ph.D. was awarded a Horizon Award Postdoctoral Fellowship from the Department of Defense Peer Reviewed Cancer Research Program to support her work on mitotic kinesins in colorectal cancer. Congratulations Heidi!!

Leslie Sepaniac, a CMB graduate student, was awarded a Vermont Space Grant Consortium Fellowship to support her work on understanding the impact of micronuclei. Congratulations Leslie!

Undergraduate researcher Carolyn Marquis was awarded a Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship to study mitotic kinesins in triple negative breast cancer cells this summer. Congratulations Carolyn!

Sarah Vandal, an undergraduate at Colby College, joined the lab for the summer after receiving an NSF funded Summer Neuroscience Undergrad Research Fellowship (SNURF). Welcome Sarah!

Alex Thompson, a Cellular Molecular and Biomedical Sciences Graduate student, joined the lab. Welcome Alex!

The Stumpff and Howe labs were awarded a collaborative grant from the Lake Champlain Cancer Research Organization to investigate kinesin function during cell migration.