Lab Updates

  • 2024

    December

    Our graduate student, Zihan Wang, passed her prelim at Duke yesterday!

    April

    Welcome new lab members Zihan Wang and Masashi Sada!

    Congratulations to Taisuke Furusho for being award a postdoctoral fellowship from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science!

    January

    Congratulations to Poss lab members and collaborators, on their paper on tissue regeneration silencing elements published in Developmental Cell online today! Kazu Ando is the lead author.

  • 2023

    November

    Congratulations to Clay Becker, the Poss Lab’s latest PhD recipient!

    October

    Congratulations to Mira Pronobis on accepting a faculty position at the University of Denver. The Poss Lab celebrated at Motorco.

    Mira Pronobis’s celebration of her new position at University of Denver!

    August

    Congratulations to former Poss Lab postdoc Valentina Cigliola as lead author on her most recent paper now published in Nature Communications, “Spinal cord repair is modulated by the neurogenic factor Hb-egf under direction of a regeneration-associated enhancer”

    July

    The Poss and DiTalia Lab would like to congratulate postdoctoral fellow Rocky Diegmiller on his recent Jane Coffin Childs Fellowship award. Congratulations Rocky!

    March

    The Poss Lab and DiTalia Lab would like to congratulate postdoctoral fellow Nitya Ramkumar on her NIH K01 award. Congratulations Nitya!

    The Poss Lab spent a few days in the NC mountains for a lab retreat. Our first retreat in 7 years, but we will make this a tradition again!

    February

    The Poss Lab said farewell to Valentina Cigliola at Motorco before she departed for France to start her new lab at the University of Valrose, Nice.

  • 2022

    December

    Congratulations to Poss Lab on their newly published paper in Cell Stem Cell titled “An enhancer-based gene-therapy strategy for spatiotemporal control of cargoes during tissue repair“!

    August

    Congratulations to postdoc Valentina Cigliola, who will be starting her new independent lab at Institute of Biology Valrose, University of Cote d’Azur in Nice, France in 2023!!


    Valentina Cigliola and Ken Poss, August 2022

    May

    Congratulations to Fei Sun, our newest PhD recipient!! Congratulations to postdoc Alessandro De Simone, for starting his new independent lab at Department of Genetics and Evolution at University of Geneva!!


    Fei Sun, Hooding Ceremony, May 2022

    Congratulations to postdoc Alessandro De Simone, for starting his new independent lab at Department of Genetics and Evolution at University of Geneva!!

    Alessandro DeSimone, Assistant Professor, University of Geneva

    April

    Congratulations to postdoc Mira Pronobis, for receiving a Career Development Award from the American Heart Association!!

    Mira Pronobis, Poss Lab fall outing 2021

  • 2021

    October

    Congratulations to John Thompson, PhD!

    John Dayland Thompson, Cell Biology. PhD Hooding Ceremony. 2021-09-25

    Congratulations to Anzhi Chen, PhD!


    Anzhi Chen, Cell Biology. PhD Hooding Ceremony. 2021-09-25

    We are thrilled to announce a new society promoting science for tissue regeneration. See writeup with Elly Tanaka in Development and visit isrbio.org. Virtual launch meeting in April -join, see great talks, students and postdocs submit abstracts!

    https://dev.biologists.org/content/148/3/dev199474

  • 2020

    November

    Congratulations to Anzhi Chen for successfully defending on November 20, 2020.

    Congratulations to Adam Shoffner, MD for successfully defending on October 21, 2020. Congratulations to John Thompson for successfully defending on July 14, 2020. Congratulations to Leslie Slota, PhD for receiving an F32 grant.