We study the regulation of cell size and shape in fission yeast S. pombe
Mentorship Development:
4/2019 - Acknowledging and Negotiating the Mentee-Mentor Tensions Inherent in the Research Lab (Parnassus)
4/2019 - Sharpening your Mentoring Skills (SyMS) with Sharon Milgram (Parnassus)
2/2021 - Three Truths & Three Tries: Facing & Overcoming Critical Social Justice Challenges at the Micro, Mezzo & Macro Levels
4/2023 - Graduate Faculty Development Program: When Someone Isn't Meeting Your Expectations
We investigate basic cell biology and how it is dysregulated in diseases. We bridge structural and cell biology to resolve cell behaviors relevant to cancer, stem cells and neurodegeneration.
Mentorship Development:
1/2023 - Faculty Development Program: Supervising People Who Aren't You: Mentoring/Managing Different Work Styles
2/2023 - Faculty Development Training: Strategies to Transparently Set Expectations in Your Lab
Mechanisms of formation and maintenance of epigenetic elements
Mentorship Development:
3/2019 - Promoting Student Mental Health
4/2019 - Sharpening your Mentoring Skills (SyMS)
6/2019 - Implicit Bias Workshop
Initiated the faculty peer-to-peer training effort of the Graduate Mentor Development Program
9/2020 - DEI Champions Training
2/2021 - Three Truths and Three Tries: Facing and Overcoming Critical Social Justice Challenges at the Micro, Mezzo, and Macro Levels
11/2021 - Defining Distance Traveled: A Working Session
1/2022 Equity Based Interview Practices
5/2022 Effective Strategies for IDPs
11/2022 - Faculty Development Training: Inclusivity is a design question. Which practices will you use?
4/2023 - Supporting Learners in Distress
Our research focuses on the molecular pathways controlling mesenchymal stem cell differentiation
Mentorship Development:
10/20/20 Gathering in Community: a Training for Faculty and Staff
11/10/20 Optimizing the Efficiency of Your Lab
2/18/21 Three Truths and Three Tries: Facing and Overcoming Critical Social Justice Challenges at the Micro, Mezzo, and Macro Levels
