Chris Taveras did his undergraduate research summer project with us this summer. He worked with graduate student Nikhila Krishnan.
The role of the centrosome and endosomes during mitosis!
Nikhila did a great job presenting her work on the relationship between centrosomes and the recycling endoscope during division on Thursday Nov 15 in Cell Developmental Biology Interest Group (CDBIG), a seminar series between Syracuse University and Upstate Medical University.
Nikhila Krishnan doing a great job with her talk!
Hehnly Lab has a paper at Molecular Biology of the Cell!
Colicino et al. talks about the role of Gravin anchoring PLK1 at mitotic centrosomes. This anchor is important for regulating centrosome organization and function as seen below with super resolution imaging of the centrosome component CEP215 disorganization when Gravin is lost.
A panel taken from Figure 4 from Colicino et al. of CEP215 disorganization primarily at a single mitotic spindle pole with Gravin loss. We argue this is through uncontrolled phosphorylation of CEP215 by PLK1 in the absence of Gravin.
ASCB 2017
Erica Colicino and Lindsay Rathbun (Hehnly Lab Graduate students) did a great job at their posters this year! Presenting on the role of Gravin and PLK1 in centrosome function (Erica) and Spindle and cleavage furrow positioning during embryonic patterning (Lindsay).
Erica Colicino presenting her poster.
Lindsay Rathbun at her poster.
And we found a delicious speakeasy!
We got to see some old friends (Hui-Fang Hung).
And great talks by our new faculty member Dr. Jessica Henty-Ridilla!