Van Landeghem Lab

Congratulations to Chloe Mariant who won 1st place poster for Life Sciences at the 17th Annual NCSU Graduate Student Research Symposium! 🎉🎉

Congratulations to Dr. Greg Bacola who brilliantly defended his PhD work today! We are very proud of you Greg!

Congratulations to Greg who presented his latest work at the FASEB summer research conference The Gastrointestinal Tract XX Conference: Making and Breaking the Gut!

Congratulations to Sydney who presented her summer research project at the summer platform for undergraduate research programs of the University of Texas at Dallas in the lab and under the direction of Dr. Heather Hayenga and Dr. Leonidas Bleris

Congratulations to Elyse and Caleb who presented their summer work at the NC State 2022 Summer Undergraduate Research & Creativity Symposium!

It has been too long since we took a lab picture… here is the current crew of the lab, from left to right: Sydney Zacher, Laurianne Van Landeghem, Greg Bacola, Jonah Herwick, Mylene Egensperger, Chloe Mariant, Samantha Klimczak, Caleb Cook and Elyse Wood

Congratulations to Greg who won the 2021 UNC CGIBD Research Competition!!!

Well done Greg!🎉🎊🎈

Beautiful small intestinal organoid grown by Mylene Egensperger, our newest Master’s student. It feels like this organoid is trying to tell her something?

Congratulations to Greg, Kaitlin, Brad and Chloé who gave fantastic presentations at the 2021 Annual CVM Litwack Research day!

Congratulations Elle! Outstanding defense! We are very proud of you, Dr Glenny!

Very happy to announce Simon’s PhD work is finally online!

https://www.ebiomedicine.com/article/S2352-3964(19)30652-8/fulltext

https://news.ncsu.edu/2019/10/glia-cancer/

Tumor cells hijack enteric glia to activate colon cancer stem cells and stimulate tumorigenesis Altogether, our results show that EGCs, once activated by the tumor, acquire a pro-tumorigenic phenotype and stimulate CSC-driven tumorigenesis via a PGE2/EP4/EGFR-dependent pathway.

Congratulations to Elle and Greg who did a fantastic job giving short talks and presenting posters about stem cells and glia in cancer and anorexia nervosa at the 2019 FASEB conference The Gastrointestinal Tract XVIII Conference: Integrated Biology of that GI Super Organ at Steamboat, Co. We are very proud of our graduate students!