Welcome Michelle

Michelle Phan, first-year DBBS student, joined our lab as a rotation student. She will be playing with microscopes and helping us expand our research questions on beta cell cilia. Lab lunch today to celebrate Michelle (first from the right in photo).

Jeong Hun wins Proteintech imaging contest

Our postdoc Jeong Hun was the winner of the 2023 Microscopy Image Competition. Thanks Proteintech! Mouse islet; green, acetylated alpha tubulin; red, FOP basal body marker; blue, DAPI

Hughes Lab represented at ICDM 2023

Jing and Eun Young both gave invited talks at the International Congress of Diabetes and Metabolism (ICDM) in October 2023 in Gyeongju, Korea. Picture of attendees at the Presidential Dinner.

Welcome Jon, rotation student

We are excited to host Jon Beirne for his PhD rotation. Jon is a seasoned experimentalist and has aspirations toward studying RNA biology in metabolism.

Welcome Shannon, new postdoc

The lab went out for lunch to celebrate our new postdoc Shannon Townsend. Shannon did her PhD with Maureen Gannon at Vanderbilt and is originally from Queens, NY.

Xinhang joins the lab as masters student

Xinhang Dong from McKelvey School of Engineering joins as a new graduate student in the lab. She received her undergrad degree from ShanghaiTech University and is wicked good at programming. Welcome to the group!

Scanning EM paper published

Team work makes the dream work – cover story in PNAS this week! Read the paper here: https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2302624120

New review article in DMJ

Eun Young’s review article “Rediscovering Primary Cilia in Pancreatic Islets” is now published in Diabetes & Metabolism Journal. Download PDF here: https://doi.org/10.4093/dmj.2022.0442

Samantha receives K12 Award

Dr. Samantha Adamson, PGY6 fellow and soon to be instructor, receives the National NIH Physician Scientist DiabDocs-K12 program award for 2023-2024. She joins a select group of future leaders in diabetes research and clinical care. Congratulations Samantha!

Hughes Lab goes to ASCI

Samantha and Jing attended the 2023 American Society for Clinical Investigation (ASCI) meeting in Chicago. The WashU MSTP community was well-represented at the meeting. Photographed: Samantha Adamson, Jing Hughes, Max Petersen

Goodbye Eun Young

A bittersweet send-off to Dr Eun Young Lee, who returns to Korea to resume clinical work in diabetes. She will be missed dearly.

Farewell Lifei

We send Lifei our very best wishes as she begins her postdoctoral position in the Department of Pediatrics at Washington University.

Bella joins as MSTP student

Bella Melena, 2nd year WUSM student, joins the lab as a PhD student. We are so happy for Bella entering the MSTP program and staying for her thesis work!

Our work featured at ADA

Our lab’s work was featured at the 2022 American Diabetes Association meeting in New Orleans, LA. Read coverage here.