We watched another Cards win at the annual Siteman Cancer Center baseball game. Not only did the team win and scored several home runs, but many of us showed up in the big screen! Yize was particularly excited. May 6, 2019
Yige, Matt, Yize, Dan, Bobo, Alla, and Song went to the Spring 2019 CPTAC meeting at the NIH near DC for 2 days of intense proteomics discussions. Yige and Matt did an outstanding job by giving a talk that summarized the lab’s current efforts and contributions to the consortium.
We are really excited to welcome our very first Chemistry PhD student into the lab! Welcome Wagma!
Reyka, Sohini, Erik, Lijun, and Ruiyang attended the annual AACR conference in Atlanta. The conference went from March 29 to April 3, with an attendance of more than 22,500! They enjoyed workshops and presentations given by outstanding scientists from diverse fields in cancer research. It was Erik, Lijun, and Ruiyang’s first time at an AACR conference. Exciting! It was also great to chat with Ding lab alumnus Kuan, who is now an assistant professor at Mount Sinai in NYC. March 29-April 3, 2019
We went out to celebrate several events with our usual Froyo! Dan passed his QE part 2, Ruiyang’s belated QE celebration (winter is too cold for froyo!), and Mamatha and Kazu joining the lab. Our usual location (tuttifruti) was closed, since they haven’t opened for Spring yet, so we went to the eponymous Froyo location further north. Congrats everyone and welcome Mamatha and Kazu!
Dan passed his QE! Congratulations Dan. We had cake (not pictured) to celebrate!
We held our first ever wet lab olympics (load 5 micrograms of dye into 10 wells as fast as possible). Julia won with a speed of <3 secs per well. Keep an eye out for wet lab olympics part 2 with the entire lab!
Spring is almost here as we warmly welcome two new lab members. Julia is a CSB student and Kazu is a postdoc researcher. Welcome both!
Over the past decade, the Cancer Genome Atlas contributed greatly to understanding tumors across 33 cancer types. To further characterize tumor progression and microenvironment as it grows, The Human Tumor Atlas Network (HTAN) was initiated. WashU researchers led by Dr. Li Ding got $9 million support from the NIH to investigate breast and pancreatic cancers in HTAN. Through local collaborations with project co-leads (Dr. Ryan C. Fields, Dr. William Gillanders and Dr. Samuel Achilefu) and researchers across HTAN, this project will help us dive into tumor invasion and drug resistance in cancer. Jan 11, 2019
Alla defended her Master's thesis titiled "Acetylation profiles of histone and non-histone proteins in breast cancer" and Ruiyang passed her QE smoothly. Alla is the first Master's student to graduate from the Ding Lab! Congratulations! We celebrated this with champagne and cake! December 18, 2018.