Skapek Lab is officially on Twitter! UTSW Media Relations UT Southwestern Pediatrics @UTSW_PedsHemOnc

Thank you Wipe Out Kids' Cancer! We are excited to continue this amazing work!

Proud of Celeste (our amazing graduate student) for presenting her research at the GD&D retreat and winning best poster! UTSW Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences

Whew! It's been a busy week for Celeste. Great job presenting at the GD&D WIPS!

What do brain cancer cells eat? 🤔 McBrayer lab UT Southwestern MSTP student Milan Savani ( Milan Savani ) is developing new tools to answer this question. Learn about his work identifying how brain cancer cells use nutrients differently than healthy cells. ⤵️ #LifeAtCRI cri.utsw.edu/life-at-the-in…

After building embryoids for 10 years, we succeeded in generating structures with brains, hearts, neural tubes, somites with a yolk sac. Both original submissions using two different approaches are on BioRxiv, to be published soon. eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%…

We had so much fun at our lab lunch today celebrating Blake's farewell as we send him off to UTSW Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences. Thanks for everything the last 3 years Blake! We'll miss you 🤠

It’s Childhood Cancer Awareness Month!! We honor the strength and courage of these families and children. WOKC has a full month ahead with events, fundraising, and big announcements. Keep your eye on our page so you don’t miss a thing! 💛🎗 #cancerawareness #ChildhoodCancer

September is #ChildhoodCancerAwarenessMonth 🎗️ Throughout the month, we #GoGold to honor the children in treatment, those out of treatment and those who have lost their lives to cancer. Please share (and wear) a gold ribbon to show support for all kids with cancer!

Proud of the Skapek Lab team for their hard work on this recently published manuscript! pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35933111/

Sometimes the PI gets to have fun too! 👨‍🔬

Happy New Year from the Skapek Lab! Had a great time at our holiday lunch. Can't wait for more fun this coming year 🎉

Congrats to everyone in the Skapek lab for their hard work on these two recent publications 🥳 pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36941772/ pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37163936/

Very rarely does a research tech make such a huge impact in less than a year. We are so proud of our future Dr. Liu. Good luck in medical school, Jenny! We will miss you! 😭

Last week we had to say goodbye and good luck to one of the best Research Assistants our lab has ever had. We are so grateful for her efforts in the Skapek lab and for bringing her kind and joyful self to our lab every day for the past 3 years. We will miss you Shireen! 😭