Congratulations to Ryan Weeks on defending his thesis! 🎉🥳 Ryan has led the way in developing Ras biosensors in the lab, with more to come! We celebrated with cake, champagne, and the very first Zhang Lab sweater. 💡 Congratulations again, Dr. Weeks!🥳🎉

Congratulations and thank you to Sohum Mehta for 15 wonderful years in the Zhang lab! You’ve contributed so much to the work we do, the culture of our lab, and each of our lives! Thanks for 15 amazing years, and here’s to many more!

Get to know MCC's Dr. Jin Zhang (Jin Zhang Lab) in this #ResearcherSpotlight! Discover her journey into cancer research, leading-edge projects & the crucial connection between fundamental cellular mechanisms and disease-related applications: bit.ly/3XDvbFm.

Two members of the lab, @ammgest.bsky.social and Anne-lyons-bioe.bsky.social will be at the Biophysical Society Meeting #bps2025 02/15 -02/19! Check out their posters on 02/18 from 1:45 to 2:45!

On Friday we had our lab farewell party for postdoc chrisqs , with lunch, cake, and lab sweater and mug! #DragonKnife Qi is moving on to a position in Dr. Diane Simeone’s lab at Moores Cancer Center. We’ve loved working with Qi, and are excited to see what he does next!

Last week we celebrated 3 lab birthdays! Happy birthday to grad students Qian and Pal, and Project Scientist Skott! #DragonKnife

Save the date for the next Vanderbilt School of Medicine Basic Sciences Apex Lecture with Jin Zhang Lab UC San Diego: “Illuminating the Biochemical Activity Architecture of the Cell” Tuesday, April 17, 3:00 pm, 1220 MRB III A reception will follow!

Yingqi will be receiving support from the Tobacco Related Disease Research Program (TRDRP) for her project on spatiotemporal cGAMP signaling in tobacco-induced non-small cell lung cancer metastasis. Congrats to them both!

Congratulations to graduate student Rosie Zhou, who won the Shu and KC Chien Best Poster in Bioengineering award at the annual Jacobs School of Engineering Research Expo for her poster “Visualizing Protein Communication in Human Cells to Improve Cancer Treatment” UCSD Engineering

Congratulations to Dr Emily Pool, who defended her thesis last week! She’s been an incredible asset to the lab, from her precision, to her mentorship, to her work on phase separation of PKA regulatory subunits. We’re so excited to see what she does next! Congrats, Dr. Pool!

Congratulations to Dr Ayse Sahan! Ayse defended her thesis this summer, and just finished up in the lab to move to her next adventure: a postdoc at UChicago! We’re very proud of what she’s accomplished here and excited to see her future work! #DragonKnife #PhDone