Thanks to Volkan K. Köseoğlu for hosting a fun visit with so many outstanding researchers at Wake Forest University School of Medicine: school.wakehealth.edu/departments/mi…

Dominant 4-point swing in the 30-point run:

Big congrats to Barbara Mellone on her 15-year lab anniversary! Next year, that lab centromere will finally have its license to 'drive'.

That UConn trophy case getting kinda crowded

BASKETBALL CAPITAL OF THE WORLD #EVERYTHING

Congrats to Aoife Heaslip following her tenure talk! Read more here nature.com/articles/s4146… & here molbiolcell.org/doi/full/10.10…. And someone please Photoshop Thomas Sladewski in front of the prosecco.

Throwback to last week's CT Science Center trip and a new lab photo:

Congrats to Corey Theodore on defending his PhD today! Way to go, Dr. Theodore. And thanks to all in attendance. Read about some of his project on actin & lysosomes here: biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Welcome back from the CSHL Meetings Proteostasis conference, Nadine Lebek. As one outspoken labmate noted: #proteoSLAYsis.

Graduation long weekend part1: Congrats to Corey Theodore Corey Theodore, PhD!

Grad wknd part2: Congrats to former undergrad star Nate Leclair, MD/PhD - from a "GMY" BS and scorpion bowl celebration in '16 to an MD/PhD and beaver at Ted's in '24! Sloan-Kettering is getting a great one. (throwback to Margaret Zimmer too, now with the Red Sox)

Finally grad wknd part3: Congrats to the latest undergrad star Lianna Wagner, BS - actin' up, branching out, and being stung by WASP-family puns in '23-'24.

Welcome to the 2024 EAGR Scholars: Milad Zameeri, Emily Szydlo, Lizzy Parkerson, RoseMina Notch, Bailey Millis, and Kelsey Gorgei! Learn more about the Scholars and UConn's undergraduate Education in Aging and Geroscience Research (EAGR) program here: …-aging-geroscience.research.uconn.edu/2024-eagr-scho…

In the June issue of MBoC from American Society for Cell Biology, Coulter & Cortes et al show that the actin nucleation factor WHAMM is important for kidney structure and function in mice. Proximal tubules from WT and WHAMM KO mice are shown (WGA in cyan and actin in magenta). molbiolcell.org/doi/pdf/10.109…

Notified of Paper-of-the-Year award on August 1 at 854am, delivers baby boy at 457pm: that's Virginia Lyle King

More outstanding work from Ming Xu's lab: Live Longer, Die Healthier today.uconn.edu/2024/08/live-l…

Geroscience: New article from Iman Al-Naggar:

A whirlwind week to kickoff the academic year: MCB retreat, trivia, posters, new students, early-semester classes, and first seminar of the year from Matt Anderson (andersonlab.genetics.wisc.edu).

Important NIA blog from Stacy Carrington-Lawrence on Geroscience and a special issue of J Gerontol: nia.nih.gov/research/blog/…

Blanka Rogina on caloric restriction: Science in Seconds – Eating Less, Living Longer youtube.com/watch?v=zWwXiu…