News & Events

• Congratulations to Sofia de Oliveira who has earned a well-deserved professional advancement - promoted to Associate Professor of Development Molecular Biology and Medicine (Hepatology)!
• Susmita Kaushik from the Cuervo lab is moving on up - congratulations on being promoted to Research Associate Professor!
• Sandra Pelka from the Cuervo lab successfully defended her PhD thesis on July 14th. Congratulations, Dr. Pelka!!

• Congratulations to Teresa Bowman who received the Dr. Ruth L. Gottesman Award for Scientific Advancement.
• Teresa Bowman is awarded an American Cancer Society TLC grant with Dr. Kira Gritsman to explore the crosstalk between cGAS/STING and PI3K/AKT/MTOR signaling in MDS.
• Proud of Teresa Bowman for receiving the 2025 ISEH Outstanding Mentor Award!
• Congratulations to Ana Maria Cuervo on receiving the Jimenez Diaz Medal for Scientific Achievements. So proud that she also received the 2025 Howard Taylor Ricketts Price!
• Proud of Sofia de Oliveira for being selected as a Featured Speaker by Early Career Investigator Committee to speak at ZDM18 Boston, USA!
• Congrats to Sofia de Oliveira for being invited to join the Editorial Team of Journal of Leukocyte Biology!
• Carihann Dominicci Cotto from the Jenny lab has earned a well-deserved professional advancement F32 NICHD fellowship.
• Cassia Michael from the de Oliveira lab has been recognized with the Liang Zhu travel award for oral presentation at 2025 European Phagocyte Meeting. Congrats, Cassia!
• Jaewon Kim from the de Oliveira lab is selected for PhD in Clinical Investigation at Einstein. Congratulations Jae! He is also awarded a CTSA Predoctoral T32 at Albert Einstein College of Medicine. Proud of you!
• Joaquin Canton Sandoval from the de Oliveira lab won the best poster award at 2025 European Phagocyte Meeting. Proud of you, Joaquin!
• Lauren Rocco in the de Oliveria lab is selected for Einstein SURP. Congratulations Lauren!
• Proud of Maria Feliz Norberto from the de Oliveira/Bowman lab who is selected to attend the MECCC DEI Symposium (Bronx, USA)! Congrats, Maria.
• Congratulations to Maria Feliz Norberto from the de Oliveira/Bowman lab for the Travel Award to attend GRC-Phagocyte Meeting 2025, New Hampshire-USA!
• Proud of Marta Mastrogiovanni from the Bowman lab for receiving an American Cancer Society Postdoctoral Fellowship to identify drivers of clonal hematopoiesis
• A round of applause to Valerie Awad from the Bowman lab for securing the NIH F31 Fellowship to study the interplay of CUX1 and DDX41 mutations on MDS

• We're excited to welcome Jaewon Kim, PhD Student, to the de Oliveira lab.
• Keith Ameyaw is a new MSTP student in the Bowman lab. Welcome to DMB!
• Lauren Rocco is a new undergrad student in the de Oliveira lab. Welcome to DMB, Lauren!
• Let’s welcome Madison Moss, MSTP student, in the de Oliveira lab. Great to have you with us, Madison!
• We're excited to welcome Nader Jaafar, PhD student, to the Cuervo lab!
• We're excited to welcome Salman Usmani to the Shastri lab! He’s a new postdoctoral researcher in the lab.

• From the Cuervo lab, Inmaculada Tasset’s article in Nature Aging highlights the activities of Women in Autophagy https://www.nature.com/articles/s43587-025-00839-9
• Mericka McCabe, together with Rebecca, Olaya, Rabia, Antonio and Kristen from the Cuervo lab have published an interesting article in EMBO Molecular Medicine on the first CMA inhibitor and its applications in cancer https://www.embopress.org/doi/full/10.1038/s44321-025-00254-y
• Check out the new publication by Cassia Michael*, Joaquin Canton Sandoval*, Maria Feliz Norberto*, from the de Oliveira lab together with Pablo Scharf and Sofia de Oliveira in JLB entitled "Metainflammation alters neutrophil function and migration in vivo in response to tissue injury" https://academic.oup.com/jleukbio/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/jleuko/qiaf094/8173649?redirectedFrom=fulltext

Check out the following exciting new publications by Carolina Eliscovich and her team:

•  Rayêe D, Meier UT, Eliscovich C, Cvekl A. Nucleolar ribosomal RNA synthesis continues in differentiating lens fiber cells until abrupt nuclear degradation required for ocular lens transparency. RNA Biol. 2025 Dec;22(1):1-16
• Okada J, Landgraf A, Xiaoli AM, Liu L, Horton M, Schuster VL, Yang F, Sidoli S, Qiu Y, Kurland IJ*, Eliscovich C*, Shinoda K*, Pessin JE*. Spatial hepatocyte plasticity of gluconeogenesis during the metabolic transitions between fed, fasted and starvation states. Nat Metab. 2025 May;7(5):1073-1091. *These authors jointly supervised this work
• Check out the new work by Ioannis Mantzaris, Aditi Shastri, Amit Verma, Marina Konopleva  and others from the Shastri lab at https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39919267
• New publication by Michael Wysota, Kith Pradhan, Aditi Shastri and others from the Shastri lab is on Blood Cancer Journal (Nature). https://www.nature.com/articles/s41408-025-01301-0
• Kudos to Zoe King, Sudhamsh Reddy Desai,David A Frank and Aditi Shastri from the Shastri lab for their published work! https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39933227
• Check out the following publications for some amazing work from Richard Stanley and his team:
• Moir R. D., Merheb, E., Chitu, V., Stanley, E.R. and Willis, I.M. (2024) Molecular basis of neurodegeneration in a mouse model of Polr3-related disease. eLife 13:RP95314. DOI: https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.95314 PMID: 38168294.
• Duran, C.L., Surve, C.R., Ye, X., Chen, X., Lin, Y., Harney, A.S., Wang, Y., Sharma V.P., Stanley, E.R., Cox, D., McAuliffe, J.C., Entenberg, D., Oktay, M.H. and Condeelis, J.S. (2025) Targeting CSF-1 signaling between tumor cells and macrophages at TMEM doorways inhibits breast cancer dissemination. Oncogene 2025 Jul 11. doi: 10.1038/s41388-025-03485-y. Online ahead of print. PMID: 38260319
• Dubey, A., Yamashita, E., Stangeland, B., Abbas, I., Fooksman, D., Harris, R.A., Palmer, G.M., Koba, W.R., Zhang, J., Himes, B.T., Lu, O.R., Ho, W.S., Kuiper, R.V., Huffman, D., Wu, Z., Uchida, Y., Ishii, M., Welch, R., Fiedler, A.F., Reynolds, D., Hosainey, M., Dobrenis, K., Ye, Q., Fisher, K., Killian, N., Stanley, E.R., Eskandar, E. and Behnan, J. (2025) Brain Tumors Induce Calvarial Bone Remodeling, Recruit Anti-tumoral Osteoclast-like Macrophages and Alter the Immune Landscape of Skull Marrow. Nature Neuroscience (in press).