• Lab pizza party at Chateau Andersen

    Lab pizza party at Chateau Andersen. Maiden voyage of the new pizza oven

  • First time on skis (Sundance 2022)

    First time on skis (Sundance 2022)

  • Christmas break lunch 2023

    Christmas break lunch 2023

  • Disneyworld AACR (Orlando 2023)

    Disneyworld AACR (Orlando 2023)

  • Ethiopian Restaurant (AACR 2023)

    Ethiopian Restaurant (AACR 2023)

  • Sampling Philly cheesesteaks

    Sampling Philly Cheesesteak (Experimental Biology, Philadelphia 2022)

  • (AACR 2023)

    Lab group (AACR 2023)

  • Dasun (AACR 2023)

    Dasun (AACR 2023)

  • Poster Session (Experimental Biology 2022)

    Poster Session (Experimental Biology 2022): Tania López-Palacios, Alec Vaughan, Josh Youngs, Dasun Jayatunge

  • Lunch a the Pie

  • Lab holiday lunch

Recent Lab News

2025

  • Our lab was awarded a 5-year R35 grant from the National Institutes of Health/NIGMS for work on PTMs/cellsignaling, understudied kinases, and autophagy.

  • We continued our critical partnership with the Fritz B. Burns Foundation with funding and research fellowships for students and lab personnel.

  • Tania López-Palacios received the Capecchi award for an outstanding poster presentation on TNK1 and blood cancer at the Western Blood Conference 2025.

  • Deshan Madhusanka received an award for an outstanding poster presentation on structure-function of the 14-3-3-TNK1 complex at the FASEB Protein Phosphorylation Conference 2025.

  • Tania was given a platform talk at the FASEB Protein Phosphorylation Conference to present her work on TNK1 function and therapeutic targeting.

2024

September 1

  • We received continued funding from the Fritz B. Burns Foundation. We thank them for their invaluable support and partnership!

  • Tania López-Palacios was honored with a graduate student Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Award by the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (ASBMB). She will officially receive this award at the annual ASBMB 2024 conference where she will present her work on TNK1