Recent Lab News

8/2025 — Welcome to the lab, Miriam Stevens!

8/2025 — Congratulations to Michelle Barbeau for her Science Signaling publication… and her 4i images are on the front page of Science Signaling! (as of August 12 2025) Thank you to Alex for showing us - see here.

7/2025 — Congratulations to Michelle Barbeau, Ph.D. for successfully defending her dissertation titled, “Systems-level Characterization of the Transcriptional and Signaling Basis of EMT Heterogeneity in PDAC.” Also, congratulations to Dr. Barbeau for her recent manuscript acceptance!

7/2025 — Fantastic job at the SASCO Symposium 2025: Congratulations to Alex DeWalle & Allison Hacherl (co-authors) for their poster and Max Mendrzycki & Dr. Sarah Lee for their platform presentation at SASCO.

7/2025 — Congratulations to Alex DeWalle, who was awarded the SOAR (Science Olympiad Alumni Research) grant!

7/2025 — Welcome to Lazzara Lab, Seth Boehringer!

6/2025 — We welcome Dr. Chris Bolden - SASCO Scholar, Dr. Zuping Wang - Postdoc, and Allison Hacherl to Lazzara Lab!

5/2025 — Congratulations to Sarah Lee, Ph.D. and Karl Kowalewski, Ph.D. for successfully defending their dissertations! Dr. Lee’s dissertation title: “Modeling Context-dependent Regulatory Mechanisms in Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor Signaling.” Dr. Kowalewski’s dissertation title: “The Hypoxic Tumor Microenvironment Regulates Fibroblast-Mediated Epithelial-Mesenchymal Transition in Pancreatic Cancer.”

2/2025 — Sarah Lee presents her work on our lab’s collaborative project with colleagues at Bristol Myers Squibb at the 21st Annual Human Proteome (HUPO) Conference in Philadelphia.

12/2024 — Check out an article on Teaching Triangles, a model adopted from Duke University and implemented in UVE ChemE recently by Matt. The model is now being promoted university-wide through a new collaboration with the Center for Teaching Excellence.

11/2024 — Michelle Barbeau presented a poster and Karl Kowalewski had a platform presentation at the TEMTIA Society Meeting, held at the Allen Institute in Seattle, WA.

11/2024SASCO Center releases new educational video on cancer cell systems biology.

11/2024 — Check out a nice article published by the UVA School of Engineering on Brooke Brown’s recent paper in Cancer Research.

7/2024
— The Center for Systems Analysis of Stress-adapted Cancer Organelles (SASCO) held its first Center-wide research symposium in July 2025. NCI visitors and External Advisory Board members joined Center personnel for a day-long program of talks, posters, and social time. Read the UVA School of Medicine article about the event here.