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!