2024
03/01/2024: We welcome Peter and Malarie as our newest team members!
01/30/2024: Congrats to Matt on being awarded an ASPET Travel Award to attend the annual society meeting, where he will also be giving an oral presentation on his work on unraveling GPCR-dependent translational regulation of gene expression!
01/23/2024: Matt and Blair’s review on the functions and mechanisms of intracellular GPCR signaling is out in JBC.
01/09/2024: Malarie is our Spring rotation student. Fun fact: Malarie is also the first Duke UPGG student to rotate with us!
2023
10/23/2023: We welcome Nora as our Winter rotation student.
08/24/2023: We welcome our Fall rotation students, Peter and Mariel.
08/07/2023: Nisa and Angelica’s study describing RBM12 as a novel repressor of GPCR/cAMP signaling is out in JBC! Go team!
07/27/2023: Blair’s paper on endosome localization and spatial encoding of GPCR activity is officially out in Nature Chemical Biology. Congrats on your outstanding work, Blair!
06/02/2023: Katherine successfully passed her prelim!
06/01/2023: We welcome our new technician, Kathryn.
03/23/2023: Blair is now officially a Doctor of Philosophy after an excellent thesis defense. Go Blair!
03/21/2023: We welcome Meagan as a permanent member of our team.
03/02/2023: Congrats to our amazing technician Angelica on her graduate school admissions.
02/14/2023: Nisa successfully defended her thesis today! Congrats, Dr. Semesta!
2022
10/24/2022: We are excited to welcome Pharm student Meagan for her rotation in the lab.
09/12/2022: We welcome our very first Duke undergraduate, James!
04/05/2022: Blair and Nisa win first and third place, respectively, at the ASPET Mol Pharm grad student/postdoc poster competition held at the annual EB meeting. Almost a podium sweep :-). Big congrats to both!
03/16/2022: Katherine joins the lab! Welcome!
03/15/2022: Matt and Blair are selected to give oral presentations at the upcoming GRS and GRC 'Mechanisms in G-Protein and Kinase-Mediated Signaling' in early June. Stay tuned!
01/2022: Nisa is selected ASPET Washington Fellow.
2021
12/15/2021: Nisa is awarded the AHA Predoctoral Fellowship. A fantastic way to end the year!
08/20/2021: We welcome our fall rotation student, Katherine (Pharm Graduate Program).
07/01/2021: We welcome Angelica as our new research technician.
06/10/2021: Congrats to Matt on passing his prelim with flying colors!
04/30/2021: Congrats to Nisa on winning 1st place at the ASPET 2021 Molecular Pharmacology Poster competition.
04/27-04/30, 05/10-05/11/2021: We will be presenting our work at EB/ASPET 2021. Be sure to check out our talks and posters. Nina will be chairing the Intracellular GPCR Signaling session, Nisa and Caitlin’s projects have been selected for short talks at the GPCR Colloquium: Evolving Insights from Pharmacology, Biochemistry and Physiology.
04/15/2021: Nisa has been selected a recipient of the AAUW International Fellowship. Big congrats!
02/26/2021: Back-to-back awards for Blair! She receives the Ruth L. Kirschstein NRSA Predoctoral Fellowship (sponsored by NINDS).
02/22/2021: The lab’s first pre-doctoral fellowship: Blair has been awarded the Duke E. Bayard Halsted Scholarship. Congratulations!
02/17/2021: Nina Tsvetanova is elected Secretary/Treasurer of ASPET’s Molecular Pharmacology Division.
2020
11/09/2020: Nisa’s flash talk at the 9th GDR GPCR international meeting was awarded one of five poster prizes.
10/15/2020: Our first paper is out in PLoS Genetics. Congrats to the first author, Nisa Semesta, and thanks to our collaborators.
05/14/2020: ASPET 2020 selected Nisa’s abstract as one of it’s Blue Ribbon picks, used to signify the highest scoring/most exciting pharmacology research abstracts.
05/11/2020: Congrats to Blair on passing her prelim!
05/07/2020: Congratulations to Nisa on passing her prelim exam!
03/31/2020: Congratulations to Blair on receiving an NSF honorable mention.
01/23/2020: Matt joins the lab!
2019
08/28/2019: We welcome our fall rotation student, Matt (Pharm Graduate Program).
04/19/2019: Nisa and Blair join the lab!
03/25/2019: Caitlin will be joining us in May as our research technician.
02/19/2019: Nina Tsvetanova is selected to be a Duke Whitehead Scholar.
02/01/2019: We welcome our two spring rotation students, Blair (Pharm Graduate Program) and Belinda (DSCB Graduate Program).
2018
11/01/2018: We welcome our first rotation student, Nisa (CMB Graduate Program).
09/03/2018: It’s the official first day of the Tsvetanova lab!