News
Read the latest news from the Green Lab. The links below take you to articles where you can learn more about our lab’s latest achievements, awards, and honors.
Announcements
- Congratulations Dr. Hegazy12.6.2022
Congratulations to Dr. Marihan Hegazy who defended her PhD thesis, "Epidermal Stratification Requires Retromer-Mediated Desmoglein-1 Recycling" on November 18, 2022!
- Green Lab Publication in Developmental Cell Catches Northwestern's Media Attention12.13.2022Congratulations to Marihan Hegazy, Jennifer Koetsier, Lisa Godsel, and Kathleen J. Green for their new December, 2022 Developmental Cell Publication entitled "Epidermal Stratification Requires Retromer-Mediated Desmoglein-1 Recycling". This research identifies an endosomal trafficking complex called the retromer as a potential therapeutic target for skin disorders. Read more about this project in media published by the Feinberg School of Medicine at Northwestern University.
- Congratulations to Abbey Perl for new role on SID Board of Directors11.04.2021Congratulations to Abbey Perl, PhD for being nominated as the new Post-doctoral Representative to the Society of Investigative Dermatology's Board of Directors. Abbey will serve a two year term beginning in May, 2022.
- Dr. Quinn Roth-Carter, PhD awarded NRSA07.19.2021Congratulations to Quinn Roth-Carter, PhD on receiving a National Research Service Award to support his Post-Doctoral fellowship for his project entitled "Mechanoregulation of the epidermal immune response: role of Dsg1". The award is funded through the National Institutes of Health, National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases.
- Congratulations to Joshua Broussard, PhD, Jennifer Koetsier, Marihan Hegazy, and Kathleen J. Green, PhD on their newest publication06.10.2021Drs. Joshua Broussard and Kathleen J. Green led a team of colleagues to publish a paper entitled "Desmosomes polarize and integrate chemical and mechanical signaling to govern epidermal tissue form and function" in Current Biology in June, 2021. This research helps explain how the skin structure and function are integrated together. Read more about this project.
- 03.03.2021
The Leo Foundation announced Kathleen Green as awardee of one of their prestigious research grants
- Kathleen Green and Eran Cohen Barak will be awarded Leo Foundation Grant11.09.2020Drs. Kathleen Green (Northwestern) and Eran Cohen Barak (Emek Medical Center, Israel) will be awarded the 2021 Leo Foundation Award for their project entitled, "Keratinocyte contributions to inflammatory skin disease-Desmoglein 1 loss as a model". Leo Foundation Awards aim to recognize scientists around the world, whose work advances the understanding of skin diseases and has the potential to pave the way for new and improved treatments.
- Welcome to new members11.07.2020Welcome to our newest Green Lab Members, Xin Tong, Cody McCullough, and Sophia Svoboda
- Kathy Green receives Honorary Membership to ESDR09.04.2020Congratulations to Kathy Green for receiving an Honorary Membership to the European Society for Dermatological Research (https://www.ESDR.org/about-ESDR)! Honorary Membership is the highest honor awarded by the ESDR. This award is bestowed on any individual who has particularly distinguished themselves in dermatological research and/or has made significant direct or indirect contributions to the society.
- Welcome Green lab members12.09.2019Welcome to our lab members Amber Huffine and Abbey Perl.
- Congratulations to Dr. Broussard for receiving a K01 award12.08.2019Congratulations to Research Assistant Professor Josh Broussard on the reciept of his K01 award titled: Epidermal polarization: the desmosomal cadherin desmoglein 1 regulates tissue mechanics and barrier function.
- Congratulations to Hoda Zarkoob on her new position at the NIH12.07.2019Congratulations to Hoda Zarkoob on her new position at the NIH as a postdoctoral fellow in the group of Marc Ferrer, PhD.
- Congratulations to Dr. Broussard for receiving an award12.07.2019
Congratulations to Dr. Josh Broussard on a Poster Prize at the 17th Meeting of the European Epidermal Barrier Research Network titled “Desmosomes pattern cell mechanics to govern epidermal tissue form and function”. Dr. Broussard also was invited to CECAD, University of Cologne, Germany as an SFB Guest Scientist to present his work.
- New Paper Published in Pigment Cell & Melanoma Research09.28.2019Congratulations to Jodi Johnson, Chris Arnette, Quinn Roth-Carter, Hope Burks, Jen Koetsier, Kathleen Cheng, Christine Amadi and Josh Broussard for acceptance of their manuscript on Keratinocyte-Melanocyte interactions in the journal Pigment Cell & Melanoma Research!
- Kathleen Green Receives Driskill Graduate Program Faculty Service Award09.12.2019Kathleen Green, PhD, the Joseph L. Mayberry, Sr., Professor of Pathology and Toxicology, received a Driskill Graduate Program (DGP) Faculty Service Award on September 10, 2019 for her longtime educational support of the DGP, helping shape it’s curriculum while teaching courses.
- New Paper Published in Journal of Investigative Dermatology08.26.2019Congratulations to Eran Cohen-Barak, his Green lab colleagues and collaborators for publication of their work in the Journal of Investigative Dermatology, demonstrating that Desmoglein 1 controls gap junctions!
- Marihan Hegazy Wins Third Place in Poster Competition07.12.2019Congratulations to Green Lab graduate student, Marihan Hegazy, for winning third place in a poster session at the Epithelial Differentiation and Keratinization Gordon Research Conference held in Newry, Maine, USA from July 7 through July 12, 2019. The title of Merihan's project was The role of the endosomal trafficking complex, the retromer, in regulating desmoglein-1 and Arp2/3 plasma membrane localization during epidermal differentiation and morphogenesis.
- Dr. Green Selected for Aaron Lerner Memorial Discovery Lecture04.11.2019Dr. Kathleen Green was selected for the Twelfth Annual Aaron Lerner Memorial Discovery Lecture at Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut. She presented her topic, Surprising Roles for Desmogleins in Skin Biology and Disease, on April 10, 2019.
- Dr. Green Wins 2019 Tripartite Prize04.04.2019
Kathleen Green, PhD, the Joseph L. Mayberry, Sr., Professor of Pathology and Toxicology and professor of Dermatology, has been named the winner of the 2019 Tripartite Legacy Faculty Prize in Translational Science and Education.
- Green Lab Members to Present at 2019 SID Annual Meeting04.02.2019
Green Lab members, Joshua Broussard, Quinn Roth-Carter, and Marihan Hegazy will present at the 2019 Society for Investigative Dermatology Meeting, May 8-11, 2019:
Joshua Broussard, PhD: Desmosomes pattern cell mechanics to govern epidermal tissue form and function
Quinn Roth-Carter, PhD: Keratinocyte desmoglein 1 controls keratinocyte/melanocyte paracrine signaling to regulate the tanning response
Marihan Hegazy: The role of the endosomal trafficking complex, the retromer, in regulating desmoglein-1 localization
- Dr. Joshua Broussard Awarded a K0104.01.2019Congratulations to Green Lab research assistant professor, Joshua Broussard, PhD, on receiving a K01 award from the NIAMS/NIH for his project, Epidermal polarization: the desmosomal cadherin desmoglein 1 regulates tissue mechanics and barrier function.
- Paper Published in Molecular Cancer Research03.29.2019Green Lab alumna, Alejandra Valenzuela-Iglesias, PhD, has published in Molecular Cancer Research: Desmoglein 1 Regulates Invadopodia by Suppressing EGFR/Erk Signaling in an Erbin-Dependent Manner.
- Avinash Jaiganesh, PhD, awarded a 2019 AHA Postdoctoral Fellowship11.19.2018Congratulations to Green lab postdoctoral fellow, Avinash Jaiganesh, PhD, who received a 2019 American Heart Association Postdoctoral Fellowship award for his project titled, "AKAP-mediated desmoplakin modification: impact on cardiac desmosomes and hypertrophic signaling".
- Welcome to new postdoctoral fellow Quinn Roth-Carter10.09.2018The Green Lab welcomes new postdoctoral fellow, Quinn Roth-Carter. Dr. Roth-Carter received his PhD in Cell and Developmental Biology from Oregon Health and Science University.
- Christopher Arnette moves to Wiley Publishing09.01.2018Green Lab postdoctoral fellow, Christopher R. Arnette, PhD, will be moving to Wiley Publishing as a developmental editor. The Developmental Editor not only acts as a liaison between authors and the editorials boards, but also provide an in-depth editing that aims to improve the content and structure of the manuscript for its target audience. Dr. Arnette will manage several journals simultaneously and work with authors to carry manuscripts through the process of submission all the way to publication.
- Chen Kam’s Journal of Cell Biology paper highlighted by Feinberg, the Chicago Biomedical Consortium and Faculty 100009.01.2018Dr. Kam showed that desmoplakin is important for maintaining gap junctions by inhibiting Ras/MAP and lysosomal turnover of Connexin 43 (J. Cell Biol. 2018. doi: 10.1083/jcb.201710161). Read more at the Northwestern Medicine Feinberg School of Medicine, the Chicago Biomedical Consortium, and the Faculty of 1000 websites.
- Green Lab uses basic science research to fight cancer with H Foundation support as a member of the Lurie Cancer Center08.21.2018See the Green Lab in action in this H Foundation video describing the importance of Basic Science Research in the Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center in understanding, diagnosing and treating cancer.
- Dr. Zarkoob awarded AHA Postdoctoral Fellowship07.06.2018Hoda Zarkoob was awarded the American Heart Association Postdoctoral Fellowship for the funding years of 2018-2020. Her work is focused on Cardiomyocyte Mechanotransduction through the Desmoplakin/RhoGEF Ect2 Interaction.
- 06.28.2018Marihan Hegazy received the Lurie Cancer Center Symposium & Scientific Poster Travel Award for her poster “Trafficking and positioning of desmoglein-1 during desmosome assembly” at the symposium poster session held on June 28, 2018.
- Welcome to the newest members of the Green Lab: Saki Amagai and Avinash Jaiganesh06.02.2018
Welcome to the newest members of the Green Lab:
Saki Amagai and Avinash Jaiganesh, PhD.
News
- Green Lab Publication in Developmental Cell Catches Northwestern's Media Attention12.13.2022Congratulations to Marihan Hegazy, Jennifer Koetsier, Lisa Godsel, and Kathleen J. Green for their new December, 2022 Developmental Cell Publication entitled "Epidermal Stratification Requires Retromer-Mediated Desmoglein-1 Recycling". This research identifies an endosomal trafficking complex called the retromer as a potential therapeutic target for skin disorders. Read more about this project in media published by the Feinberg School of Medicine at Northwestern University.
- Congratulations to Abbey Perl for new role on SID Board of Directors11.04.2021Congratulations to Abbey Perl, PhD for being nominated as the new Post-doctoral Representative to the Society of Investigative Dermatology's Board of Directors. Abbey will serve a two year term beginning in May, 2022.
- Dr. Quinn Roth-Carter, PhD awarded NRSA07.19.2021Congratulations to Quinn Roth-Carter, PhD on receiving a National Research Service Award to support his Post-Doctoral fellowship for his project entitled "Mechanoregulation of the epidermal immune response: role of Dsg1". The award is funded through the National Institutes of Health, National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases.
- Congratulations to Joshua Broussard, PhD, Jennifer Koetsier, Marihan Hegazy, and Kathleen J. Green, PhD on their newest publication06.10.2021Drs. Joshua Broussard and Kathleen J. Green led a team of colleagues to publish a paper entitled "Desmosomes polarize and integrate chemical and mechanical signaling to govern epidermal tissue form and function" in Current Biology in June, 2021. This research helps explain how the skin structure and function are integrated together. Read more about this project.
Honors
- Kathleen Green Receives Driskill Graduate Program Faculty Service Award09.12.2019Kathleen Green, PhD, the Joseph L. Mayberry, Sr., Professor of Pathology and Toxicology, received a Driskill Graduate Program (DGP) Faculty Service Award on September 10, 2019 for her longtime educational support of the DGP, helping shape it’s curriculum while teaching courses.
- Dr. Green Wins 2019 Tripartite Prize04.04.2019
Kathleen Green, PhD, the Joseph L. Mayberry, Sr., Professor of Pathology and Toxicology and professor of Dermatology, has been named the winner of the 2019 Tripartite Legacy Faculty Prize in Translational Science and Education.