LIFE INSIDE LAB | Scott Williams UNC

New paper alert!

Congrats to Carlos and his team on a new publication in eLife this month. The paper describes the antagonistic role of AGS3 against LGN...

Way to go, Dr. Patiño Descovich!

On May 5th 2022, Carlos successfully defended his dissertation! Carlos gave a wonderful talk to family, friends, and colleagues on his...

Congrats newly minted Dr. Brown!

Bethany successfully defended her dissertation work titled, "Novel Mouse Models for Investigating Genetic Drivers and Influencers of Oral...

Kendall (re)joins the lab!

Kendall's post-doctoral work will aim to uncover the mechanisms guiding the formation and function of the gut-brain axis during...

Juliet chosen for the Cellular Systems and Integrative Physiology training grant!

Congratulations to Juliet for being chosen to be part of the Cellular Systems and Integrative Physiology (CSIP) training grant! This is...

Juliet joins the lab!

The lab is delighted to welcome Juliet King! Over the course of her thesis project, Juliet plans to uncover the mechanisms by which cell...

It’s all unicorns and rainbows!!!

Scott just received a terrific score on his R01 submission to NIAMS. Thanks to everyone in the lab for working hard to generate the data...

Bethany wins PumpkinOff VI

Congratulations Bethany on being the repeat winner of the 6th annual Williams lab Pumpkin cook off! Bethany’s creation this year was...

Kevin starts new research scholar position at the ADA

Congratulations Kevin on accepting your new faculty position at the American Dental Association! Kevin is the Anthony R. Volpe Research...

Kevin wins AAP Regeneration Research Award

Congratulations to Kevin Byrd for winning yet another award. This time it’s the James T. Mellonig Regeneration Research Award from the...

Team Kendall’s paper on the role of Nectin mutations in cleft palate published in Development

Disruption of the nectin-afadin complex recapitulates features of the human cleft lip/palate syndrome CLPED1 Congratulations to Kendall...

Abby joins Julie Baker’s lab at Stanford

Former standout Williams lab undergrad Abby Bergman has realized her life-long dream of studying placental biology by joining Julie...

Kendall starts a postdoctoral position with Xiling Shen at Duke

Congratulations Kendall on starting a post-doc with Xiling Shen. Kendall will be working on projects related to both epidermal...

Kendall successfully dissertates! With actual people in the room!

Congratulations Kendall on a wildly successful thesis defense. Who knew it would be the last one before the pandemic made everything...

Kendall’s telophase correction paper published in eLife

Telophase correction refines division orientation in stratified epithelia Congratulations to Kendall and crew for his exciting new paper...