We are thrilled to present Dr. Shannon Rhoads as the second Cohen Lab PhD graduate! Co-mentored by Todd Cohen, Shannon used multispectral imaging to reveal that neurons and astrocytes have distinct organelle signatures and responses to neurodegenerative disease-associated stress. Congratulations, Dr. Rhoads!
Lab Attends Cell Bio 2024
The Cohen Lab had a spectacular time at Cell Bio 2024 in San Diego. Sarah co-chaired a session on “Lipids in Organelle Form and Function,” Shannon and Maria Clara gave talks, and Sherry and Vickie presented posters. Plus yummy Italian food. See y’all next year in Philadelphia!
Lab Retreat 2024
We enjoyed a joint Lab Retreat with the Diering Lab. We held Night Science workshops on “Improvisational Science” and “The Two Languages of Science,” before heading to Jordan Lake for a picnic and stand-up paddle boarding.
Lab Celebrates Paper Acceptances
Cohen Lab Attends Cell Bio 2023
We had a great time at Cell Bio 2023 in Boston, MA. Sarah co-chaired a session on “Lipids in Organelle Form, Function, and Communication,” and gave a talk in the “Beyond Pretty Pictures” Subgroup, while Maria Clara, Shannon, and Sherry presented posters. A highlight was seeing Maria Clara and Sherry’s gorgeous images on the Zeiss Microscopy WOW Wall!!
Congratulations, Dr. Windham!
Lab Retreat in Saxapahaw
We had a fantastic Lab Retreat in Saxapahaw! We did a Strengthsfinder activity that allowed us to learn about the shared and unique strengths of our team members. Then we had lunch at the Saxapahaw General Store and paddled on the Haw River.
Cohen Lab Takes Cell Bio 2022 by Storm
We had a great time attending Cell Bio 2022, an ASCB/EMBO Meeting, in Washington, DC. Ian gave a talk and Greg, Maria Clara, Shannon, and Joey presented posters. We also ate lots of yummy food and saw the monuments on the National Mall at night!
Happy Halloween from the Cohen Lab!
We had so much fun dressing up as organelles for Halloween! Sherry is a microtubule; Greg is mitochondria; Maria Clara is peroxisomes; Alex is lipid droplets; Joey is a lysosome; Vickie is the Golgi; Shannon is a stress granule; Ian is a chloroplast; and Sarah is the ER! So much creativity in these costumes!
PS What do you call an elevator full of organelles? A CELL-evator!
Cohen and Deshmukh labs featured in CZI Medium post
Our collaborative project with the Deshmukh lab was featured in a recent Medium post describing how scientists are using a new library of stem cells with neurodegeneration-associated mutations to study neurodegenerative disease. Check out Maria Clara’s beautiful video!