6.4.26 Garima wins the Trainee Travel Award from SSR.
5.26.26. Sam, Pedra, and Garima receive Janice Bahr travel awards.
5.19.26. Dr. Dean’s promotion to Associate Professor has been approved by the University.
4.29.26. Sijie successfully defended her MS. She is a Master of Science!
4.25.26 Sunil wins 2nd place at Midwest SOT, presenting his PhD work on PM2.5 in the placenta.
4.24.26. Pedram receives an outstanding abstract award from the Endocrine Society.
4.23.26. Pedram and Garima are selected to give talks at SSR.
4.2.26. Pedram receives T32 Scholar position through the Toxicology and & Environmental Health Program.
3/28/26. Sam, Garima, and Pedram receive block grants from the Graduate College to attend SSR.
3/11/26. Sam and Pedram are selected to give talks at the upcoming DNS Symposium.
2/28/26. Devin is awarded a JBT fellowship. She will start in August.
2/28/26. Sam receives the Baker Fellowship for the 26-27 school year.
2/18/26. Kassandra’s paper on EVs is accepted at Scientific Reports.
1/16/26. We welcome our new postdoc, Dr. Sunil, to the lab.
11/17/25. Our review with Dr. Luetkemeyer has been accepted in Acta Biomaterialia.
9/8/25. Dr. Dean participates int the IGB Team Science Leadership Program.
7/7/25. Kassandra successfully defends her MS!
6/26/25. Sam wins a Trainee Travel Award from SSR to attend the meeting this summer.
6/2/25. Our summer SURETox student, Isabella, starts in the lab.
5/27/25. Arpna, Kassandra, Pedram, Sam, and Sijie receive Dr. Janice M. Bahr travel awards to attend the SSR meeting.
5/22/25. Kassandra receives travel award from DNS to go to SSR this summer.
5/7/25. Dr. Dean wins the D. E. Becker Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching from the Department of Animal Sciences.
10/7/24. The last paper from Malia’s PhD is accepted for publication in Molecular Biology Reports.
9/3/24. Malia’s paper on mPRs is accepted at Reproduction.
7/22/24. Ondi presents at ISRS.
7/8/23. Kassandra receives DNS Excellence Award.
6/6/24. Malia’s paper in Reproduction in Domestic Animals is accepted.
5/10/24. Malia passes her PhD defense.
5/1/24. Malia earns her graduate teacher certificate from CITL.
4/15/24. Sam wins a Janice Bahr Travel Award from UIUC to attend the SSR meeting in Dublin.
2/5/24. Malia wins a Conference Presentation Award from the UIUC Graduate College.
12/18/23. Malia is offered an internship with Merck.
11/30/23. Malia wins an exemplary doctoral student award from the department.
11/7/23. Ziting’s review is accepted in Reproduction & Fertility.
8/10/23. Dr. Dean publishes an essay in Science about his experience with cancer.
8/1/23. The lab receives an R21 grant from NICHD.
6/16/23. Malia receives a Grant in Aid of Research from Sigma Xi.
6/1/23. Kassandra receives Summer Predoctoral Institute Fellowship to start her research over the summer.
5/31/23. Dr. Dean joins the Division of Nutritional Sciences. You can watch his DNS seminar here.
5/12/23. Dr. Dean receives a FIRE grant from ACES to use spatial transcriptomics to study decidualization.
5/8/23. The Dean Lab receives its first R01 grant from NICHD.
4/20/23. Malia wins best poster in Clinical and Preclinical Metabolism II at the DNS Symposium.
3/13/23. Malia wins a Spring Award from the Dept.
2/27/23. Malia is awarded a David and Norraine Baker Fellowship from the Dept. of Animal Science.
1/30/23. Sameeksha wins a Department of Animal Sciences and Graduate College award.
12/20/22. Malia passes her preliminary exam.
10/10/22. Dr. Dean receives an internal grant from the Campus Research Board to make a Cre/Lox mouse model.
9/7/222. Dr. Dean is selected as a 2023 Rising Star in Reproductive Biology by SSR. SSR members can watch a recording of his webinar here.
7/14/22. Alexis’s paper is accepted at Reproduction.
6/30/22. Ziting’s paper is accepted at Mol Reprod Dev.
6/6/22. Our paper with Burdette Lab is accepted at Cancer Letters.
5/27/22. Alexis passes her thesis defense!
4/20/22. Malia wins Best Poster in Preclinical Metabolism at the DNS Symposium.
4/15/22. Ziting successfully defends her thesis!
4/6/22. Malia helps interview Drs. Barfield and Wilkins about the Laramie Foothills Bison Conservation Herd Project as part of the SSR podcast The Future Conceived.
3/4/22. Ziting accepts job as a Research Technician at the University of Michigan.
3/3/22. Ziting is selected for a talk at the annual DNS symposium.
3/1/22. Dr. Dean joins EIRH at IGB.
2/25/22. Dr. Dean is profiled by ACES.
2/7/22. Alexis wins a departmental Spring award!
1/5/22. Dr. Dean is interviewed by Prairie Farmer about beef cow fertility.
12/7/21. Our paper characterizing BUTE and BFIB cells is accepted at IVCDBA.
11/16/21. Our R03 with Dr. Ziv-Gal is funded by NIEHS!
9/22/21. Ziting is selected for an oral presentation at ISRS!
8/18/21. Kassandra’s paper is accepted at Animal Reproduction Science.
4/1/21. Chapter on ex vivo adhesion assay is accepted in Methods in Mol Biol.
3/9/21. Paper with Dr. Joanna Burdette (UIC) is accepted at Cell Death & Disease.
12/16/20. Paper with Dr. Ziv-Gal is accepted at Reproductive Toxicology.
11/20/20. Sam accepts a position at Eli Lilly. Congratulations!
8/16/20. Alexis and Ziting start their MS degrees in the lab.
8/9/20. Dr. Dean receives NIH Loan Repayment Award.
2/21/20. The lab receives an internal grant from Animal Science to develop a transgenic mouse model with the Nowak Lab.
2/13/20. Review on the fallopian tube and ovarian cancer with the Burdette Lab is accepted at Cancer Letters.
1/28/20. The Lab receives a paid internship from ACES for Kassandra to work over the summer.
6/20/19. Paper on the role of spheroids in the colonization of the ovary with Burdette Lab at UIC is accepted in Cancers.
5/24/19. Our review on uterine glycogen is accepted at BOR.
1/17/19. Paper describing IMS protocol in JoVE with Burdette and Sanchez labs at UIC is accepted.
1/2/19. I’ve officially started at U of I. The lab is open for business!