Dai lab celebrated holiday with skate party
12-12-2024
Graduate student Hanqiu will give a work-in-progress talk at MCB/CBP on 12/20
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Dr. Dai is invited for seminars on NAVBO and PVRI online symposium
The topic is “Endothelial Dysfunction in Pulmonary Hypertension”
Dai lab attended and presented in 2024 AHA Scientific Session in Chicago
Bin and Hanqiu received awards from AHA conference and ACRE symposium
Bin Liu is promoted to Instructor on 11/15, Congratulations!
Bin also won a poster award at the WashU Center for Cardiovascular Research (CCR) Research Day on 11/6.
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Qi Zheng, PhD, will join Dai lab as a postdoc on 11/18
Qi recently graduated from Beijing University of Chinese Medicine. Her expertise is in hepatology.
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Graduate student Hanqiu Zhao is selected for the Young Investigator Award competition at 2024 CAAC/ACRE/CNAHA Joint Research Symposium in Chicago
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Dr. Dai will give a seminar on Cell Biology & Physiology Seminar series
Title: Introducing Lung Vascular Biology: Insights into Pulmonary Vascular Disease Mechanisms
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Dr. Dai will give a seminar on PCCM LUNG LUNCH
Title: Discovery of Distal Arterialization in Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension
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WashU master graduate Shunning Liang will join Dai lab as a biostatistics research assistant on 8/26
Shunning graduated from University of Colorado as an undergraduate and WashU as a master student
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Bin Liu was selected as the finalist for AHA Cournand & Comroe Early Career Investigator Award at Chicago this November
Bin Liu is a senior scientist in Dai lab. Congratulations!
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Three abstracts from Dai lab were selected for oral presentation at AHA2024, Chicago, IL
Abstract 1: Single-cell and Spatial Transcriptomics Identified Fatty Acid-binding Proteins Controlling Endothelial Glycolytic and Arterial Programming in Pulmonary Hypertension.
Abstract 2: General Capillary Endothelial Cells Undergo Reprogramming into Arterial Endothelial Cells in Pulmonary Hypertension.
Abstract 3: A single-cell lung atlas of human pulmonary arterial hypertension
Graduate student Qiu attended FASEB meeting and presented her work in epithelial and endothelial cell crosstalk
Qiu presented her work on the Faseb meeting Lung Epithelium in Health and Disease at Southbridge, Massachusetts.
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Dr. Xinyi Zhang will join Dai lab on 9/3
Xinyi was a recent graduate from Baylor University. Her expertise is in RNA biology. Welcome to Dai lab!
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Dai lab has open positions for postdocs.
Apply through WashU job system
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Dai lab moved from University of Arizona to Washington University in St. Louis on July 1st, 2024