Lab News

April 2023

Natasha has been appointed as a Predoctoral Fellow on the Molecular, Genetic, and Cellular Targets of Cancer Training Grant (T32)

March 2023

Chinasa has passed her written prelim exam!! Whoohoo! Congratulations!

February 2023

Chinasa Ufondu has received an ENDO Research Experiences for Graduate and Medical Students award (REGMS) award. Congratulations, Chinasa!!

January 2023

Natasha is now an ENDO Future Leaders Advancing Research in Endocrinology (FLARE) Fellow! whoohooo!

October 2022

Natasha and Julie are headed to Puerto Rico for SACNAS!

June 2022

Natasha Roman Ortiz has passed her MPaT oral prelim exam and is now a PhD Candidate. Congratulations, Natasha!!

May 2022

Chinasa Ufondu has joined the Ostrander lab for her PhD studies.

March 2022

Chinasa Ufondu has joined the lab for her 3rd rotation in the MPAT program!

February 2022

Recommended for funding! Our DoD BCRP Breakthrough Level 1 Partnering PI application with the Sikora Lab was recommended for funding. Yay!

Natasha has passed her written prelim exam!!!  Congratulations!

December 2021

ACS Theory Lab collaborative grant funded! Excited to officially start collaborating with the Sikora lab.

November 2021

LSSURP student, Ayeisha Colon Ortiz presented her summer research project at ABRCMS and won the Cancer Biology Division Poster Presentation

October 2021

Two new lab members joined us this month! Nikita (Nikki) Kamath is a Master's student in the Graduate Program in Pharmacology, and Kara Paulsen is an undergraduate student. Welcome!

July 2021

Natasha has been appointed as a Leadership and Excellence to Advance Diversity in Research (LEADR) Fellow

June 2021

Natasha Roman, a PhD student in the Graduate Program in Pharmacology, has decided to join the Ostrander Lab!

June 2020

Today is Ying Wang's last day. We are sad, but excited to see her start a PhD program at Baylor College of Medicine. We will miss you Ying!!

November 2019

Warm welcome to Brian to come back in Ostrander lab for "lab rotation" as part of his medical school curriculum! We've missed you Brian!!!! Welcome home

October 2019

Congratulations to Dr. Ostrander on getting her NIH R01 grant with her project "Targeting PELP1/SRC-3 complexes in therapy resistant ER+ breast cancer". Bravo Julie!!!

June 2019

Congratulations to our fabulous undergraduate Morgan on getting her new research job in NIH!! We are sad for your leaving but excited for your future research journey!! You rock Morgan!!

January 2019

Welcome undergraduate student Abby to Ostrander Lab!!  

December 2018

Congratulations to Ying on graduating from her Master's with her thesis titled as "Effects of the Extracellular Matrix on PELP1 Localization in Human Breast Tumor Cells"