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04/11/2025 Eric presented his research at the Undergraduate Research Symposium titled: "Drivers of Metabolic Heterogeneity in Triple Negative Breast Cancer Subclonal Populations"
04/09/2025 Congrats to Daylin Morgan for successfully defending his thesis: "Uncovering The Heterogenous Response To Chemotherapy In A Clonally Resolved Triple Negative Breast Carcinoma Cell Model”!
04/2025 We're excited to share a preprint showcasing the application of ClonMapper to study clone-specific responses to chemotherapy in TNBC cells.
03/2025 Thank you to the UCSF Single Cell Seminar Series for inviting Amy as a speaker!
12/2024 We're excited to share a preprint showcasing the development and application of ClonMapper Duo to track cell-cell fusion at single-cell resolution.
12/2024 Nuha presented her research at the Undergraduate Research Symposium titled: "Investigating the Fusion Rate and Population Dynamics of Heterogeneous 1806 TNBC Cells without Chemotherapeutic Treatment"
12/2024 Didi presents work on mapping cell-cell fusion at single-cell resolution at ACSB Cell Bio 2024 in San Diego as a part of the Emergent Functions in Syncytia Subgroup
11/2024 - Joshua was awarded the Undergraduate Research Fellowship Award
11/2024 Congrats to Michael, Kennedy, and Sarah for passing their proposals!
08/22/2024 Caro presented her research at the 2024 National Cancer Institute Junior Investigator Meeting!
07/30/2024 Congratulations to Didi Gardner for successfully defending her thesis: "Investigating cell-cell interactions in the generation and maintenance of heterogeneity in cancer cell populations"!
07/15/2024 Congratulations to Tyler Jost for successfully defending his thesis: "Tools and Methods for Surveying Heterogeneity in Breast Cancer"!
04/20/2023 Amy is a keynote speaker at the CPRIT Symposium on "Expanding Texas Leadership in Computational Oncology throughout the Cancer Continuum" today at Dell Medical School, UT Austin.
04/13/2023 Amy will be giving a talk and Carolina, Daylin, Didi, and Tyler will present posters at AACR 2023. Come visit with us!
02/2023 Congratulations to Didi on receiving the NOA for her F31 fellowship!
09/2022 The lab welcomes new graduate student Audrey Freischel!
08/2022 Congratulations to Sarah Meng, Michael Cotner and Kennedy Howland on passing their BME qualifying exams!
9/2021 Congratulations to Eric Brenner on the successful defense of his PhD!!
4/2020 Congratulations to Kaitlyn on the defense of her PhD!! More than 70 colleagues from across the US joined us for her virtual thesis seminar.
2/14/2020 Amy receives tenure and will be promoted to Associate Professor (effective 9/2020)!
12/2019 Congratulations to Grant Howard on the successful defense of his PhD!!!
11/2019 Amy presented at the NCI/NIH Innovative Molecular Analysis (iMAT) program PI meeting. Fun to attend with other UT BME faculty, Drs Jiang and Zoldan!
10/2019 Eric's paper with the UT Waggonner Center reports on the first single cell analysis of gene expression changes in the brains of individuals with alcoholism. This has been a great collaborative team!
09/2019 We're excited to share a preprint of our collaborative study with DFCI using COLBERT barcodes to track CLL cells responding to chemotherapy.
08/2019 Amy gave an invited presentation on "Functionalized barcodes to reveal evolutionary clonal dynamics" at the Next-Generation Genomics meeting organized by Nature Conferences at NYU.
08/2019 Congratulations to Dr. Aziz Al'Khafaji for passing his thesis defense! We wish him well as he heads to the Broad Institute for a postdoc position.
08/2019 Congrats to Daylin for passing his BME qualifying exam!
06/2019 We welcome PhD student Andrea (Didi) to the lab!
06/2019 Kaitlyn presented at the Integrated Math Oncology seminar series at Moffitt Cancer Center.
06/2019 Best wishes to Edward as he begins a postdoctoral position in the DeGregori lab at UC Denver!
04/2019 Amy gave an invited seminar at the Quantitative Systems Biology Center at Vanderbilt Medical Center. Thank you to wonderful hosts in the Quaranta lab and the whole department!
03/2019 Can the growth dynamics of species in ecosystems give us new insights into the early growth of tumors? Our latest preprint tackles this question.
02/2019 Our COLBERT barcoding platform is a Top 10 Finalist for the SLAS Innovation Award at the SLAS Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C.
01/2019 Amy was the "Student's Choice" speaker in the BME department at the U of Maryland, College Park. Thank you to the grad student organizers!
12/2018 Congratulations to Aziz on receiving the UT Graduate School Dissertation Writing Fellowship!
11/2018 Amy presented a talk at the Systems Approaches to Cancer Biology in Wood's Hole, MA and Kaitlyn was awarded a Best Poster award at the meeting.
7/2018 Congratulations to Eric on being selected for the F.M. Jones and H.L. Bruce Endowed Graduate Fellowship!
6/2018 Our barcoding technology, COLBERT, is discussed in Nature Methods and you can learn more here
5/2018 The lab is very happy to welcome graduate student Eric Brenner! Read more about his work on the Team page!
5/2018 Aziz presented the multi-functional capabilities of his cell barcoding platform at the Fifth International Workshop in Mammalian Synthetic Biology in Boston.
April 2018 Kaitlyn has been awarded a competitive NSF Graduate Research Fellowship! Congratulations to Kaitlyn on this recognition of her research and leadership contributions!
March 2018 The lab has been awarded funding by the Department of Defense (DOD) Peer-Reviewed Cancer Research Program to investigate colorectal carcinoma responses to chemotherapy. We will partner with the Livestrong Cancer Center at Dell Medical School for these studies.
First R01 Jan 2018 awarded to the lab! We are grateful to the National Cancer Institute at NIH for funding to carry out a 5-year study of the role of heterogeneity in tumor initiation.
Poster Award Nov 2017 At the first annual Livestrong Cancer Center/ Dell Medical School retreat, Grant Howard was awarded Top Poster in the Graduate Student Division!
NIH Funds New Project in the Brock Lab August 2017. We're excited to announce that the lab has been awarded a three-year grant from NIH to develop a novel tool for the analysis of heterogeneous tumor cell populations. This work will be supported by the iMAT (Innovative Molecular Analysis Technologies) program of the National Cancer Institute.
Workshop on Preclinical Breast Cancer Models April 2017
Dr. Brock was an invited speaker at the Preclinical Models of Breast Cancer workshop at EPFL Lausanne in Switzerland. It was a wonderful opportunity to meet with students and postdoc visitors from across Europe and North America and to learn about their work. Thank you to Prof. Cathrin Brisken for hosting!
Congrats to new NSF Fellow! We congratulate Rebecca Ho, former undergraduate research student in the lab, on her NSF Fellowship. Rebecca is headed to MIT next fall to begin a PhD program in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (Course 6). Way to go Rebecca!
Paper Accepted! Apr 2017 Look for our upcoming manuscript in Cancer Research!
Abstracts Accepted! Feb 2017 Kaitlyn Johnson and Grant Howard will present their work on chemoresistant breast cancer at the American Association for Cancer Research Annual Meeting in Washington D.C.
International Symposium on the Breast, Dr. Susan Love Foundation, Feb 2017
Amy was an invited speaker at the 9th International Symposium on the Breast, organized by Dr. Susan Love. This was a fantastic, high-energy program with many opportunities for discussions among the 125 participants. Thank you to Dr. Love for bringing together this group, which included some of the most innovative scientists in the cancer field.
04/09/2025 Congrats to Daylin Morgan for successfully defending his thesis: "Uncovering The Heterogenous Response To Chemotherapy In A Clonally Resolved Triple Negative Breast Carcinoma Cell Model”!
04/2025 We're excited to share a preprint showcasing the application of ClonMapper to study clone-specific responses to chemotherapy in TNBC cells.
03/2025 Thank you to the UCSF Single Cell Seminar Series for inviting Amy as a speaker!
12/2024 We're excited to share a preprint showcasing the development and application of ClonMapper Duo to track cell-cell fusion at single-cell resolution.
12/2024 Nuha presented her research at the Undergraduate Research Symposium titled: "Investigating the Fusion Rate and Population Dynamics of Heterogeneous 1806 TNBC Cells without Chemotherapeutic Treatment"
12/2024 Didi presents work on mapping cell-cell fusion at single-cell resolution at ACSB Cell Bio 2024 in San Diego as a part of the Emergent Functions in Syncytia Subgroup
11/2024 - Joshua was awarded the Undergraduate Research Fellowship Award
11/2024 Congrats to Michael, Kennedy, and Sarah for passing their proposals!
08/22/2024 Caro presented her research at the 2024 National Cancer Institute Junior Investigator Meeting!
07/30/2024 Congratulations to Didi Gardner for successfully defending her thesis: "Investigating cell-cell interactions in the generation and maintenance of heterogeneity in cancer cell populations"!
07/15/2024 Congratulations to Tyler Jost for successfully defending his thesis: "Tools and Methods for Surveying Heterogeneity in Breast Cancer"!
04/20/2023 Amy is a keynote speaker at the CPRIT Symposium on "Expanding Texas Leadership in Computational Oncology throughout the Cancer Continuum" today at Dell Medical School, UT Austin.
04/13/2023 Amy will be giving a talk and Carolina, Daylin, Didi, and Tyler will present posters at AACR 2023. Come visit with us!
02/2023 Congratulations to Didi on receiving the NOA for her F31 fellowship!
09/2022 The lab welcomes new graduate student Audrey Freischel!
08/2022 Congratulations to Sarah Meng, Michael Cotner and Kennedy Howland on passing their BME qualifying exams!
9/2021 Congratulations to Eric Brenner on the successful defense of his PhD!!
4/2020 Congratulations to Kaitlyn on the defense of her PhD!! More than 70 colleagues from across the US joined us for her virtual thesis seminar.
2/14/2020 Amy receives tenure and will be promoted to Associate Professor (effective 9/2020)!
12/2019 Congratulations to Grant Howard on the successful defense of his PhD!!!
11/2019 Amy presented at the NCI/NIH Innovative Molecular Analysis (iMAT) program PI meeting. Fun to attend with other UT BME faculty, Drs Jiang and Zoldan!
10/2019 Eric's paper with the UT Waggonner Center reports on the first single cell analysis of gene expression changes in the brains of individuals with alcoholism. This has been a great collaborative team!
09/2019 We're excited to share a preprint of our collaborative study with DFCI using COLBERT barcodes to track CLL cells responding to chemotherapy.
08/2019 Amy gave an invited presentation on "Functionalized barcodes to reveal evolutionary clonal dynamics" at the Next-Generation Genomics meeting organized by Nature Conferences at NYU.
08/2019 Congratulations to Dr. Aziz Al'Khafaji for passing his thesis defense! We wish him well as he heads to the Broad Institute for a postdoc position.
08/2019 Congrats to Daylin for passing his BME qualifying exam!
06/2019 We welcome PhD student Andrea (Didi) to the lab!
06/2019 Kaitlyn presented at the Integrated Math Oncology seminar series at Moffitt Cancer Center.
06/2019 Best wishes to Edward as he begins a postdoctoral position in the DeGregori lab at UC Denver!
04/2019 Amy gave an invited seminar at the Quantitative Systems Biology Center at Vanderbilt Medical Center. Thank you to wonderful hosts in the Quaranta lab and the whole department!
03/2019 Can the growth dynamics of species in ecosystems give us new insights into the early growth of tumors? Our latest preprint tackles this question.
02/2019 Our COLBERT barcoding platform is a Top 10 Finalist for the SLAS Innovation Award at the SLAS Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C.
01/2019 Amy was the "Student's Choice" speaker in the BME department at the U of Maryland, College Park. Thank you to the grad student organizers!
12/2018 Congratulations to Aziz on receiving the UT Graduate School Dissertation Writing Fellowship!
11/2018 Amy presented a talk at the Systems Approaches to Cancer Biology in Wood's Hole, MA and Kaitlyn was awarded a Best Poster award at the meeting.
7/2018 Congratulations to Eric on being selected for the F.M. Jones and H.L. Bruce Endowed Graduate Fellowship!
6/2018 Our barcoding technology, COLBERT, is discussed in Nature Methods and you can learn more here
5/2018 The lab is very happy to welcome graduate student Eric Brenner! Read more about his work on the Team page!
5/2018 Aziz presented the multi-functional capabilities of his cell barcoding platform at the Fifth International Workshop in Mammalian Synthetic Biology in Boston.
April 2018 Kaitlyn has been awarded a competitive NSF Graduate Research Fellowship! Congratulations to Kaitlyn on this recognition of her research and leadership contributions!
March 2018 The lab has been awarded funding by the Department of Defense (DOD) Peer-Reviewed Cancer Research Program to investigate colorectal carcinoma responses to chemotherapy. We will partner with the Livestrong Cancer Center at Dell Medical School for these studies.
First R01 Jan 2018 awarded to the lab! We are grateful to the National Cancer Institute at NIH for funding to carry out a 5-year study of the role of heterogeneity in tumor initiation.
Poster Award Nov 2017 At the first annual Livestrong Cancer Center/ Dell Medical School retreat, Grant Howard was awarded Top Poster in the Graduate Student Division!
NIH Funds New Project in the Brock Lab August 2017. We're excited to announce that the lab has been awarded a three-year grant from NIH to develop a novel tool for the analysis of heterogeneous tumor cell populations. This work will be supported by the iMAT (Innovative Molecular Analysis Technologies) program of the National Cancer Institute.
Workshop on Preclinical Breast Cancer Models April 2017
Dr. Brock was an invited speaker at the Preclinical Models of Breast Cancer workshop at EPFL Lausanne in Switzerland. It was a wonderful opportunity to meet with students and postdoc visitors from across Europe and North America and to learn about their work. Thank you to Prof. Cathrin Brisken for hosting!
Congrats to new NSF Fellow! We congratulate Rebecca Ho, former undergraduate research student in the lab, on her NSF Fellowship. Rebecca is headed to MIT next fall to begin a PhD program in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (Course 6). Way to go Rebecca!
Paper Accepted! Apr 2017 Look for our upcoming manuscript in Cancer Research!
Abstracts Accepted! Feb 2017 Kaitlyn Johnson and Grant Howard will present their work on chemoresistant breast cancer at the American Association for Cancer Research Annual Meeting in Washington D.C.
International Symposium on the Breast, Dr. Susan Love Foundation, Feb 2017
Amy was an invited speaker at the 9th International Symposium on the Breast, organized by Dr. Susan Love. This was a fantastic, high-energy program with many opportunities for discussions among the 125 participants. Thank you to Dr. Love for bringing together this group, which included some of the most innovative scientists in the cancer field.