Every year, the McArdle Lab makes awards for the best trainee presenters of research presentations, in two categories: 1) Junior (first two years of graduate work) and 2) Senior (3+ years of graduate work). Our research presentations run weekly for both semesters. This year we will have 50 presentations from 28 different research groups, on a large range of cancer research topics.
Congratulations to our most recent award winner, Caleb Carlsen from the Weaver lab, as the winner of the senior category (awarded in December 2025). He gave a seminar describing new ways to kill breast cancer cells with taxol drugs. He showed that breast cancer cells, already taking chances with rapid and sloppy assembly of their mitotic spindles, can be sensitized to taxol drugs using auxiliary treatments that destabilize spindle assembly in other ways. Our congratulations to Caleb and to his mentor, Dr. Beth Weaver!