Officially open for business (if business means ordering and unpacking and not doing experiments).

Great to welcome jake kirkland to Cell Cycle and Cancer Biology at OMRF. Looking forward to many great science discussions.

We're looking for young faculty! A great opportunity for someone in a supportive environment. Exact research focus is open but we are looking for someone who will flourish within our highly collaborative group. Strongly committed to diversity, equity and inclusion.

Tipton and Gorbsky Gary Gorbsky OMRF identify more than two microtubule populations in the mitotic spindle; more in our free Research highlight: ow.ly/xgca50I2A15

Great to see Aaron Tipton's work highlighted in the Journal of Cell Science, overturning a overly simplistic paradigm for mitotic spindle microtubule dynamics.

I’m extremely excited to announce that this August I’ll be starting a lab at the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation (OMRF) in the Cell Cycle & Cancer Biology Research Program! 1/4

New Xenopus tropicalis cell lines. Fun collaboration with Horb lab National Xenopus Resource, support from #WhitmanCenter Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) and U.S. National Science Foundation. Below, cell expressing GFP-tubulin shows breaking & shrinking microtubules, imaged with Mizar Imaging Tilt light sheet. ow.ly/Zztt50JRval

Happy to announce Casey Dubose’s (CDuBoseBio) paper analyzing genomic instability in iPS cells. Casey pioneered this new lab project. After three years as a tech, he moved on to grad school at Univ of Chicago, where he will continue his successes. bit.ly/3c676C1

Congratulations to our own Marysia Narożna (Maria Narozna, PharmD, PhD) participant OMRF in @FulbrightPoland #BioLAB program who was awarded her PhD with distinction from Poznan Univ Med Sci (Poznan University of Medical Sciences). Marysia is rejoining us as a postdoc, mapping mechanisms of aneuploidy in iPS cells.

That’s a wrap on FASEB yeast chromosome biology and cell cycle! I’m looking forward to organizing the next one with Dean Dawson and Mundi Wellinger.

The Gorbsky lab is seeking a new tech to help us understand genome instability in iPS cells. All levels of education and experience welcome to apply. Below optical genome mapping with Bionano Saphyr. Apply here (scroll down a bit): bit.ly/3zrEHiH

Great to welcome Rafal to Cell Cycle & Cancer Biology OMRF. Looking forward to great science.

I doodled my house

Our department coffee station, "The Turning Worm Cafe," has been closed since the start of Covid. This week we reopened with a significant upgrade to our coffee instrumentation.

We are so thrilled to welcome Elizabeth Finn to the Cell Cycle & Cancer Biology program at the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation. She will make us a better department and we will do our best to help her excel!

Also, feeling simultaneously thrilled and a little embarrassed that my parents drove out to celebrate with me my first day OMRF. Evan Ackerman’s parents even sent flowers!

Great opportunity to join a fantastic department at the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation.

After a 3 year hiatus, a successful OMRF Cell Cycle and Cancer Biology "annual" retreat at Keystone State Park, OK. Great whiteboard talks from trainees, vicious cornhole tournament and insightful input from our guest, Dr. Brian Mitchell from Northwestern.

#InMemoriam: Margarete Heck, professor of cell biology and genetics at The University of Edinburgh, died peacefully at home amid her loving family under a blue moon on August 30, 2023, after a long journey with ovarian cancer. An obituary from her former colleagues: bit.ly/484cUDr

Margarete was a wonderful friend and great scientist. She will be sorely missed by us all.