Lab News

5/2023

Shannon won the Travel Award at the Weinstein Cardiovascular Development & Regeneration Conference (San Diego, CA). Congratulations!

5/2023

Sherry presented her work at the Texas Bone Program Annual Scientific Retreat, and won the Rolanette and Berdon Lawrence Bone Research Award Finalist (Houston, TX). Congratulations!

4/2023

Jun won the American Heart Association Established Investigator Award. Congratulations!

3/2023

Sherry presented her work at the Anatomy Connected 2003 and won the Travel Award (Washington, DC). Congratulations!

11/2022

Mingjie won the Young Investigator Award from the 17th ACRE/CAAC/CNAHA Joint Research Symposium 2022 (virtual). Congratulations!

11/2022

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Mingjie presented his work at the G&E retreat, Galveston , TX.

This work “Hippo-Yap Signaling Maintains Sinoatrial Node Homeostasis” was recently published at Circulation and reported in the recent news.

10/2022

Our work “Yap and Taz promote osteogenesis and prevent chondrogenesis in neural crest cells in vitro and in vivo” was highlighted as Cover of Science Signaling and reported in the recent news.

9/2022

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Sherry presented her work at the 45nd Annual Meeting of the Society for Craniofacial Genetics and Developmental Biology (SCGDB), San Diego, CA.

This work was recently accepted for publication by Science Signaling.

9/2022

Our collaborative work “LATS1/2 control TGFB-directed epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition in the murine dorsal cranial neuroepithelium through YAP regulation” was highlighted as Cover of Development

8/2022

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Tram’s white coat ceremony at UT Austin Dell Medical School.

07/2022

Shannon successfully defended her M.S. Congratulations!

She received Ph.D. admissions to Graduate Schools and decided to continue her Ph.D. at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center UTHealth GSBS.

07/2022
Jun is officially on the Early Career Committee of the Council on Basic Cardiovascular Sciences, the American Heart Association (term 07/01/2022- 6/30/2024). She looks forward to serving the scientific community, especially providing support to Early Career Investigators! 

06/2022
Jun won Transformational Project Award from the American Heart Association. Congratulations!

6/2022

Our collaborative work “Integrated multi-omic characterization of congenital heart disease” was published on Nature.

06/2022

Tram received admissions to Medical Schools. Congratulations!

She will leave lab to start her new journey at Dell Medical School, The University of Texas at Austin.

06/2022

Shannon won 2nd place Award of Oral Presentations at GSBS Student Research Day, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center UTHealth GSBS. Congratulations!

05/2022

Shannon and Mingjie won Travel Fellowship Award and Foundation Leducq Best Oral Presentation Award, the Weinstein Cardiovascular Development & Regeneration Conference (Marseille, France). Congratulations!

05/2022
Sherry won Third-place Award at SCBA -Texas Chapter 2022 Annual Symposium. Congratulations!

04/2022
Sherry won travel award for American Association of Anatomists Annual meeting in conjunction with the Experimental Biology Annual meeting (Philadelphia, PA). Congratulations!

04/2022

Jun was a nominated Speaker at Breakthrough Discovery Symposium, McGovern Medical School UTH (the symposium highlights the work is worthy of recognition for its innovation and significance.) It was great to share the Wang lab research with colleagues!

12/2021

Mingjie Postdoctoral Fellowship from the American Heart Association. Congratulations!

10/2021

Shannon won 2nd place Award of Oral Presentations at the  MD Anderson UTHealth Graduate School G&E Program 2021 Annual Retreat. Congratulations!

9/11/2021
Mingjie published a first authored paper “Bmp Signaling Regulates Hand1 in a Dose-Dependent Manner during Heart Development” on Int J Mol Sci. Congratulations!

08/2021
Jun won John S. Dunn Foundation Collaborative Research Award. Congratulations!

8/13/2021
Tram published a first authored paper ” An Optimized O9-1/Hydrogel System for Studying Mechanical Signals in Neural Crest Cells” on J Vis Exp. Congratulations! 

2021

Jun won 2nd place award for non-science category at Biochemistry& Cell Biology 2021 Art show contest, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center UTHealth GSBS. Congratulations! 

7/30/2021
Shannon published a first authored paper “
The Cardiac Neural Crest Cells in Heart Development and Congenital Heart Defects. “on J Cardiovasc Dev Dis. Congratulations! 

7/8/2021
Sherry published a first authored paper “Hippo-Yap Pathway Orchestrates Neural Crest Ontogenesis” on Front Cell Dev Biol. Congratulations!

7/10/2020
Mingjie published a first authored paper “The Hippo Pathway in Cardiac Regeneration and Homeostasis: New Perspectives for Cell-Free Therapy in the Injured Heart” on Biomolecules. Congratulations!

06/2021

Shannon was the Finalist for Pre-Candidacy PhD and MS, Recipient of the 1st year Bonus Award at GSBS Student Research Day, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center UTHealth GSBS. Congratulations!

05/2021
Both Sherry and Shannon won Third-place Award at SCBA -Texas Chapter 2021 Annual Symposium. Congratulations!

04/2021
Jun will be promoted to Associate Professor effective 09/2021. Congratulations!

04/2021
Sherry was recipient of American Association for Anatomy (AAA) Registration Award for Experimental Biology 2021. Congratulations!

11/2020

Jun won the Rising Star Award for the 2020 Women Faculty Forum. Congratulations!

02/2020

Birthday party for Grace and Joan, what a fun to have close birthdays and celebrate together!

10/15/2019
Sherry gave a platform talk at the 42nd Annual Meeting of the Society for Craniofacial Genetics and Developmental Biology (SCGDB) and won award from the Society for Developmental Biology (SDB). Congratulations!

8/9/2019
Jun is officially on the Editorial Board of Frontiers in Physiology as a Review Editor. She looks forward to serving the scientific community!

6/15/2019
Sherry gave her first platform talk in US at Society of Chinese Bioscientists in America (SCBA) -Texas Chapter 2019 Annual Symposium. Congratulations!

5/10/2019
Sherry gave her first poster presentation in US at 2019 Scientific Retreat – The Bone Disease Program of Texas.  Congratulations!

04/15/2019
Jun is featured in the Pediatric Research Center News Letter April – May 2019 Vol. 8, No. 5

10/9/2018
Bao published his first authored paper on J Vis Exp. Congratulations!

9/19/2018
Jun is awarded for The University of Texas System Rising STARs award 2018-2021 and will join UTH at 12/01/2018. Congratulations!