Karen Xiao wins award at 2022 NCI Jr. Investigator meeting!

Karen Xiao, a 4th-year MCSB student in Dr. Anand Ganesan's lab, was awarded the People's Choice Poster Award at the 2022 NCI Junior Investigator Annual Meeting!  Her poster was entitled, "Identifying Signaling Networks in Melanoma Tumors that Promote the Uncontrolled Growth of BRAF Mutant Melanocytes."

CSBC Meeting Karen Award

Dr. Min Wu receives NSF Career Award

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Dr. Min Wu (MCSB Inaugural Class 2007) has been awarded a NSF Career Award. Her project, "Probing Multiscale Growth Dynamics in Filamentous Cell Walls," will develop mathematical models and computational methods to simulate, predict and quantify various aspects of cell wall expansion. Findings from this study will have great impact in agriculture and public health.

Presently, Dr. Min Wu is an assistant professor in the Division of Mathematical Sciences at the Worcester Polytechnic Institute in Worcester, MA.