lab news

2023

July 27, 2023 - Congrats to Johann on a great presentation in the Roswell Park Medical Student Symposium!

June 13, 2023 - Welcome to the lab summer students Anusha and Blessy, and back to the lab Johann, this time as a medical student!

May 17, 2023 - Sam presents his work at the University at Buffalo Undergraduate Research Symposium!

March 28, 2023 - Congrats to Katie on passing her qualifying exam and advancing to candidacy!

2022

June 13, 2022 - Welcome to the lab, Emily! Emily will be joining us for the summer, investigating the role of APA in cancer associated fibroblast function.

April 27, 2022 - Abby presents her work at the University at Buffalo Celebration of Student Academic Excellence!

January 1, 2022 - Congrats to Abby on being awarded an F31 Predoctoral Fellowship from the NIH!

2021

November 1, 2021 - Welcome to the lab Aditi, our new postdoc!

June 1, 2021 - Welcome to the lab summer student Carla! Check out her bio on the People page.

February 24, 2021 - Congrats to Katie for receiving a grant from the University of Buffalo for her work on tumor/stroma crosstalk in pancreatic cancer!

February 19, 2021 - The second Feigin Lab review has been published at Trends in Cancer! Congrats to authors Swati and Abdul on this great accomplishment!

January 22, 2021 - The second Feigin Lab review has been accepted! Details to follow!

2020

October 22, 2020 - The first Feigin Lab review has been published at Trends in Pharmacological Sciences! Congrats to first author Abby on this great accomplishment!

August 12, 2020 - Abby presents her work at the CSHL Models and Mechanisms of Cancer Meeting!

June 9, 2020 - Swati presents her work to the local affiliate of the Pancreatic Cancer Action Network.

January 18, 2020 - The first Feigin Lab paper has been accepted at Genome Research! Congrats to first author Swati on all her hard work!

2019

September 20, 2019 - Abby presents her work to the incoming students at the Roswell Park Student Retreat!

September 19, 2019 - Swati presents her work on alternative polyadenylation during the Annual Postdoc Symposium, and wins the Best Talk Award!

September 6, 2019 - Mike is off to Boston for the AACR Meeting on Pancreatic Cancer!

September 3, 2019 - Welcome to the lab undergrads Serena and Katie! And welcomes back Mina! Looking forward to a great year!

August 30, 2019 - The first preprint from the lab has been posted! Congrats to Swati for all her hard work! (See link and PDF on the Publications page.)

August 2, 2019 - Johann and Jaelyn present posters describing their summer work to the Roswell Park community!

July 11, 2019 - The lab is gathered at the Roswell Park Science Retreat at Holiday Valley Resort in Ellicottville, NY.

June 4, 2019 - Abby is off to Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory for the Workshop on Pancreatic Cancer.

June 3, 2019 - Welcome to the lab summer students Jaelyn and Johann! Check out their bios on the People page.

May 27, 2019 - Genetics PhD student Abdul has officially joined the lab! His thesis will focus on the role of APA proteins in pancreatic cancer pathogenesis.

May 14, 2019 - Career development day! Updating IDPs, CVs, and discussing career goals.

May 10, 2019 - Swati presents her work on APA to the Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics at Roswell Park!

April 1, 2019 - Today we welcome first year PhD student Celia to the lab for a rotation. She will be studying the role of APA factors in pancreatic cancer cell proliferation.

March 20, 2019 - Mike is off to Canada to present the lab’s work to the Center for Pharmacological Oncology at the University of Toronto!

February 11, 2019 - Today we welcome first year PhD student Hannah to the lab for a rotation. She will be studying the role of APA factors in lung cancer pathogenesis.

2018

December 26, 2018 - Today we welcome first year PhD student Abdul to the lab for a rotation. He will be studying the role of APA factors in pancreatic cancer cell proliferation.

December 3, 2018 - We are very excited to have received a grant from the Roswell Park Alliance Foundation to support our efforts studying gene regulation in pancreatic cancer!

October 10, 2018 - Congrats to all four undergrads (Mina, Tatiane, Denisha, Whitney) for receiving grants from the University of Buffalo for their work on GPCR signaling in cancer!

August 10, 2018 - Gaby is presenting her work at the Roswell Park Summer Research Program symposium.

July 10, 2018 - Mike is off to Berlin to present the lab's work at the Early Career Scientist Forum on GPCR Signal Transduction!

July 9, 2018 - Mike is presenting the lab's work at the Roswell Park scientific retreat.

June 30, 2018 - THE LAB HAS OFFICIALLY TURNED ONE!

May 22, 2018 - The first official paper from The Feigin Lab is out! Our collaborators determined the expression of hundreds of GPCRs across many tumor types to find patterns of alterations across cancer. (Link to paper)

April 19, 2018 - Congrats to undergrad Tatiane for receiving a grant from the University of Buffalo for her studies on GPCR signaling in pancreatic cancer!

March 22, 2018 - Congrats to undergrads Mina and Anant for receiving a grant from the University of Buffalo for their studies on GPCR signaling in leukemia!

March 20, 2018 - The lab is hosting Dr. Richard Neubig, Professor and Chair of the Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology at Michigan State University, for a seminar!

March 12, 2018 - Postdoc Swati is off to Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory for the Bioinformatics of Cancer Genomics course!

March 5, 2018 - Mike is presenting the lab's work to the Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, University at Buffalo.

 

2017

December 4, 2017 - Swati Venkat (postdoc) and Abby Cornwell (rotation student) have joined the lab! 

October 13, 2017 - We've hired our first postdoc! Details coming this December!

September 15, 2017 - We've received a grant from the Roswell Park Experimental Therapeutics program to support our work on pancreas cancer - thanks!

August 2, 2017 - First agar plates have been poured! The science can begin!

July 6, 2017 - First order placed!

July 5, 2017 - Welcome to our newest lab member, Arwen Tisdale!

June 30, 2017 - The Feigin Lab is open for business!

May 8, 2017 - Mike's paper published in Nature Genetics! (Link to paper)

April 22, 2017 - Off to Chicago for EB17