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Every year the West Lab takes a break from work to enjoy time as a group. Ranging from restaurants to museum trips, it is always great to get away from the lab for a day! This year we all got together to enjoy the afternoon by having a long lunch and a visit to Costco…
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Dr. West, along with Dr. Steve Stice, have newly returned from a trip to Nanning, China where they gave a lectures at Guangxi University. In his presentation, Dr. West discussed the use of stem cells to develop transgenic animals with improved agricultural characteristics. During their visit, Dr. West and Dr. Stice also took some time…
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Thanks to all of the undergraduates that worked so hard in the West and Duberstein Laboratories. We worked hard but had a lot of fun learning about science and each other. Pop quiz: What country would you travel to in order to lose 15 pounds in 10 days or be eaten by a tiger? If…
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Congratulations to Tina Ethridge for winning 3rd place in the 2014 CAES Undergraduate Research Symposium Poster Competition! She presented an exciting poster entitled “mRNA Reprogramming of Leigh’s Syndrome Patient Human Fibroblasts into Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells for Clinical Research.” Very exciting work that will hopefully one day help in drug discovery and treatment of these patients.
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Jessica McCabe, Vivian Lau, Harrison Grace and other West Lab were prominent stars in the CAES “State of the College” address. Learn more about UGA’s College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences and the broad and exciting research that is happening.
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Drs West and Duberstein had a great time at the Sigma Kappa House Faculty Appreciation Dinner with their undergraduate research students Jennifer Roveto and Sarah Shaver. The old southern charm of the Sigma Kappa house was amazing; only surpassed by the shear greatness of the served chicken parmesan dinner. Drs West and Duberstein are secretly…
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Stem cell therapies may one day help millions of patients with serious and life altering diseases and injuries. But before stem cells and their derivatives can help a single patient, they must be tested for safety and efficacy. This will likely take an army of researchers years of studying cell signaling events, development and behavior…
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Vivian Lau won 1st Place in the 2013 Science of Veterinary Medicine Symposium Graduate Student Poster Presentation with her poster entitled “Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Histology, and Sensorimotor Analysis of a Novel Ischemic Stroke Pig Model.” Congrats to her and co-authors.
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Three dimensional reconstruction of MRI in stoke brain. Scans captured on a Siemens 1.5 Tesla magnet.
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Millions of people each year suffer from neural injury and disease with traumatic brain injury (TBI) and stroke being chief among them. TBI is common in toddler age children that suffer falls from highchairs and stairs, teenagers that compete in football and competitive cheerleading and adults that are in car accidents. Part of the insidiousness…
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