New Academic Year - New Laboratory Members

A new academic year begins with much promise and optimism.  This year we are optimistic because we have two new graduate students and two new undergraduates joining the laboratory.  New people mean new ideas and more energy to tackle the hard problem of how cancer cells divide.  We are also optimistic because the our cell based model seems to hold the answers to what are the biochemical pathways that enable cancer cells to divide, when they should not.  One enzyme, Checkpoint kinase 1, is clearly  important but we also find that it is not acting alone.  With help from the new recruits we are working to find the master regulator of checkpoint adaptation