Min attended ASH, the American Society of Hematology annual meeting, which is the major hematology meeting each year that thousands of clinicians and scientists attend. Min presented a poster on the role of PRL-3 in Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia onset and…
Caroline and I were so excited to attend Kristin's wedding at her hometown in Edmonton KY this weekend! She looked really pretty and she and Michael were both smiling non-stop the entire time. Her mom was really cute, and excited to…
My name is Tyler Sullivan and I am a senior chemistry student at Morehead State University. Working in the Blackburn lab as part of the KBRIN program has been one of the most exciting experiences of my career. The environment was…
This summer I had the chance to attend a Gordon Conference on Wnt signaling in Mount Snow, Vermont! It was a great experience to be able to attend a smaller conference and network with people in the field. I presented…
The first research paper from the lab has been published! This project was done by our high schooler (who is now killing it at Harvard) Shea Hausman, in collaboration with Chunming Liu's and Dave Watt's groups at UK. They made…
Congrats to our no-longer undergrads! Brad is off to med school at the University of Cincinnati and Kristin is entering the PhD program here at UK. In his year in the lab, Brad helped get our project injecting human cancer…
Caroline was recently selected to be part of the Associate Member Council at the American Association of Cancer Research. The council is made up of graduate students and post-docs, and they are the representative body for all associate members world-wide…
Margaret Blair (on the left), our Paul Laurence Dunbar MSTC researcher, just won first place in the Cellular and Molecular Biology section at the Kentucky Science and Engineering Fair, which is the big state science fair! Her project focused on…
We recently had Lexington high schoolers visit the lab and learn about the benefits of zebrafish in cancer research! Here, Jessi is showing the students how to use our Nightsea flashlight to screen for zebrafish that have GFP-tagged leukemia. Not…
I went to Tokyo, Japan to attend the Workshop on Frontiers in Phosphatase Research and Drug Development at the end of October, 2018. I gave a short talk and also presented my work in a poster on the oncogenic phosphatase…