WOW! Thank you to breast cancer expert Dr. Steffi Oesterreich and senescence expert Katherine Aird for an insightful, thought-provoking perspective piece doi.org/10.1158/2326-6… in Cancer Immunology Research on our recent BC/Senescence study in Nature Cancer rdcu.be/c6AZH. Very COOL!

It was an honor to host #FLOTUS U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D. Congressman Troy A. Carter & Mayor LaToya Cantrell and update them on the work and many changes at Louisiana Cancer Research Center to recognize #CancerMoonshot & #ColorectalCancerAwarenessMonth !

Our very first BMS Career Day took place last Friday. We appreciate our 10 amazing BMS alumni for a full day of panel discussions, talks, workshops, and networking conversations. #tulanebms #tulanebmslife #careerday #mentoring

Our students are on Capital Hill attending AAAS Catalyzing Advocacy in Science and Engineering Workshop. They learned about #sciencepolicy, #scienceadvocacy and #scicomm and met with LA congressmen, senators, and their staffers to talk about their research and science policies.

Src kinase! Honoring Michael Bishop and Harold Varmus, and their research on oncogenes. This will be heading to ⁦UC San Francisco soon⁩. I’ll highlight details of the sculpture eg. the Emu feathers, Rous Sarcoma Virus, phylogenetic tree, and cell migration in upcoming tweets.

A shoutout to Dr. Derek Pociask, Director of Graduate Education for the Tulane BMS Program Tulane BMS Graduate Program and former PhD student Michelle Galeas-Pena @MichelleGaleasP who are featured in this Nature article nature. Great mentoring, excellent science!

You are just conferencing, conferencing... And hey, that's my picture! Happy to see it featured during an amazing introductory lecture at #GordonConf GRC on mammary biology by Machado Lab. Microenvironment is cool!

The review from Eran Andrechek team explores the molecular landscapes and characterization of breast cancer research models by comparing recent published multi-omics data and analysis. link.springer.com/article/10.100…

Come join our team of incredible scientists in the Big Easy! Applications are open. Apply today!

Congratulations to our student, Emily Phillips on a successful Preliminary! We’re so proud of you! 🎉

For my ERC-CZ funded lab in Prague, we are hiring on all levels! ⭐️ PhD students wanted: img.cas.cz/2023/09/73777-… img.cas.cz/2023/09/73763-… #organoids #fibroblasts #morphogenesis #mechanobiology Please repost!

A reminder to come and join me at CSHL!! Faculty search applications will be welcomed until November 15th - RT if you need more info!

October is #BreastCancerAwarenessMonth. Our retrospective collection of all articles on #breastcancer published in the last 2 years highlights the recent contributions of our authors to elucidation 🔬🧪of #breastcancer mechanisms. Editor: Zuzana Sumbalova Koledova link.springer.com/collections/gg…

We are hiring! Looking for a motivated postdoctoral researcher. Come join our team! 3+ years funded position. Salary will be commensurate with experience and based on NIH scale. Apply here: neurojobs.sfn.org/job/37022/post…… DM me for more info Please share! Tulane Brain Institute Tulane Medicine

Fantastic talk by Jim Jackson on immune evasion of senescent breast cancer cells and role of TP53 and chromatin changes. #SABCS23 #bcsm

Macrophage C/EBPβ contributes to alveolar budding during the estrous cycle by providing critical signaling to mammary epithelial cells Machado Lab life-science-alliance.org/content/7/10/e…

Our paper showing that loss of E2F5 n the mammary gland delayed ductal elongation and eventually resulted in tumor formation is out at Oncogene. Congrats to Briana To, DO PhD nature.com/articles/s4138…

🌸 In honor of #BreastCancerAwarenessMonth, Heather Machado, PhD, discusses her research on breast cancer & mammary gland development at Tulane School of Medicine. Learn more about her work and passion for mentoring in this episode of #TulaneMedInsider! #BreastCancerResearch

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Meet Hannah Harrison from The University of Manchester, our latest #ResearchIsBeautiful image campaign winner🏆  Hannah’s image captures epithelial cells within an explant taken from normal human breast tissue. Find out more and don’t forget to throw in some festive entries in the coming month!