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Beyond my undergraduate coursework, research has been the most educational and rewarding experience I have participated in. The Blackburn Laboratory fostered the supportive environment I needed to reach my goals, and allowed me to take my education to the next…
I was very fortunate to be invited to give a podium presentation for the Experimental Therapeutics session at the American Society of Hematology annual meeting ASH 2024 in San Diego, CA. The ASH Annual Meeting is one of the largest…
I arrived at the lab just ten months ago as a visiting scholar, and during this time, I have learned so much. My research focuses on injecting cancer cells into zebrafish larvae to study tumor progression and test potential treatments,…
I worked with Dr. Blackburn this summer through the Markey STRONG program. My project’s scope focused primarily on the radioresistance associated with missense mutations in TP53, and how those mutations (uniquely) collaborate with the H3K27M mutation found in 80% of…
This summer, I had the opportunity to work in the Blackburn Lab through the Kentucky INBRE Summer Research Program. I investigated Deferoxamine as a drug therapy to prevent relapse in patients with T-cell Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia. It was an invaluable…
In October 2023 me and Jessi had the chance to go to Durham-North Carolina to attend the 16th Zebrafish Disease Models Society annual meeting. This meeting brings together researchers using zebrafish to model different human diseases. Research findings from the…
During 2023 I worked in Blackburn Lab as visiting scholar and I had an amazing experience. I am professor in Brazil and during this year, I made a training to work with oncology research using zebrafish as animal model. I…
-Trace Jolly, University of Kentucky, Blackburn Lab The Blackburn lab uses zebrafish to study a variety of pediatric cancers. Our lab does this through two main techniques: 1-Transplants and 2- Transgenic Models. Zebrafish transplants/engraftments are a valuable model for examining…
I had the opportunity to attend the 2024 annual meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) in San Diego, California. This meeting is one of the largest gatherings in the field of cancer research globally. The AACR annual…
LEXINGTON, Ky. (Aug. 10, 2023) – Using antibodies derived from alpacas, a University of Kentucky research team has developed a tool that could lead to new therapies to stop the growth of several types of cancer. While cancer researchers have known…