Today on The Fundamentals is Dr. Maria Castro, the R.C. Schneider collegiate professor of neurosurgery, and a professor of cell and developmental biology at the University of Michigan Medical School. Her research program aims to develop immunotherapies for primary and metastatic brain cancer, studying basic immune biology mechanisms leading to clinical implementation. She has been inducted into the American Association for the Advancement of Sciences, the Latin American Academy of Sciences, and the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering College of Fellows. She has won numerous awards for her contributions to basic science and cancer research and is a diversity ambassador for the Cancer Biology Graduate Training Program. You can learn more about Dr. Castro here, and you can follow her @castro2355_mg, the Rogel Cancer Center @UMRogelCancer, the department of neurosurgery @umichneuro, Michigan Neurscience Institute @UM_MNI and the department of cell and developmental biology @UMCDB on X

Four with Medical School ties are among 12 University of Michigan faculty and staff members recognized by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) as 2023 fellows in recognition of their extraordinary achievements.

Subhash (Parent Lab) was selected as the 2024 Thermo Fisher Trainee Achievement Award recipient.

A new publication by Seth Teague (Heemskerk Lab) was published in Nature Communications.

A publication from the Yadlapalli Lab has been published in the Journal of Visualized Experiments.

A new publication from the Bazzi Lab was published in eLife.

Charlie (Spence Lab) successfully defended her thesis.

A new publication from the Bazzi Lab has been published in Genesis: The Journal of Genetics and Development.

Sarah (Melanie Ohi Lab) was awarded the prestigious Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship.

A new publication from the Lin Lab has been published in Science Translational Medicine.

Ziyi (Lin Lab) was awarded the prestigious Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship

Ye (Yadlapalli Lab) was awarded the prestigious Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship.

Brittany (Puck Ohi Lab) successfully defended her thesis, "Adaptations to mitotic spindle architecture promote utilization of an alternate assembly mechanism," on March 7, 2024.

Discover Chelsey's journey to become a CDB faculty member.

"The ins-and-outs of exosome biogenesis, secretion, and internalization," has been published in Tends in Cell Biology.