After 26 months (!) from initial submission to publication, our PANX1 study is finally out in Nature Communications! The extremely long review process made this a truly memorable experience (for better or worse), and the team’s persistence and dedication carried it through.

Thanks to everyone on the PANX1 team for their hard work and resilience!

Through our collaboration with the Kannan lab at the University of Georgia, we reveal conserved gating determinants in understudied CALHM ion channels using an evolutionary analysis approach combined with electrophysiology.

A major milestone — She is now officially a PhD candidate!

Welcome Anna Gilstrap and Tisha Dash!

She has also been appointed as a trainee on Northwestern’s NIH-funded Molecular Biophysics Training Program (MBTP, T32). Congratulations, Sarah!

Today is Richard’s last day in the lab. He will be joining St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital as a PhD student. We wish him the best in his future endeavors!

We’re excited to welcome Anna Gilstrap to the lab! She joined today as a student temp before starting the IBiS PhD program at Northwestern in the fall of 2025.

Caitlin Tramont, Katherine Moran, and Sarah Keuning (second rotation in the lab).