The Matson Lab

Congratulations to Matson Lab post-doc Dr. Trey Gilpin, who has accepted a job at ThermoScientific and had his last day in the lab today. Very well done Trey! You will be missed but we reserve the right to invite you back to talk with the students about your work in industry.

Sushi for lab lunch today. Celebrating Brittany and Usha, who both won recent awards for their research. Well done!

The Matson lab would like to welcome Natalie, an undergraduate who will be helping us optimize tumor spheroids for use in tissue-relevant hydrogel systems. Welcome to the lab Natalie!

A quick sendoff for Aditi Sharma, our star undergraduate researcher and hematology nurse! Some medical school is going to be very lucky to have you in their incoming class Aditi! Stay in touch!

Ruth Dickie Awards Ruth Dickie Awards Ruth Straethern Dickie, a life member of GWIS, passed away on December 24, 1993 at the age of 80, a Professor Emeritus at the UW‐Madison at the time. Professor Dickie became a me…

Congratulations to Brittany Baikie and Usha Polaki, who both won awards from the Graduate Women in Science organization. Brittany won a Ruth Dickie Grants-in-Aid award, while Usha won the Ruth Dickie Research Scholarship. Great work! For more on Ruth Dickie's legacy: www.gwisbeta.org/awards/ruth-...

Dr. Jeff Nirschl is a physician-scientist starting his lab at UW-Madison. If you are interested in computational neuropathology then you should check out these postings...

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Congratulations to recent lab alumnus Jordan Morrissey on her acceptance to the UW-Madison MS in Pharmaceutical Sciences: Applied Drug Development program. Glad to have you staying here at UW-Madison for a bit longer!

Congratulations to Brittany and Usha on their excellent poster presentations at the 2025 AACR Annual Meeting. Looking forward to following up on the many exceptional conversations that these generated. Also really enjoyed the hot pot at Haidilao!

Thrilled to be participating in the 2025 ASCI/AAIM/BWF Physician-Scientist Pathways Annual Workshop this morning in Chicago. It has never been more critical to support physician-scientist training and careers.

Will you be at the upcoming AACR Annual Meeting in Chicago? We would love to connect in-person, including at our two posters on Monday. www.abstractsonline.com/pp8/#!/20273... and www.abstractsonline.com/pp8/#!/20273...

Congratulations to Cady for winning a coveted Hilldale Undergraduate Research Fellowship! Excellent work!

Anu had a great poster presentation today at SciMed GRS Annual Poster Session!

Check out our new study in JCI Insight, in which we show how GATA2 suppresses invasion and can predict recurrence and survival in uterine serous carcinoma. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40168074/

Great talk this morning from María Virumbrales-Muñoz for Path Department Seminar. Amazing how successful she has been adapting her technology to so many important biological and clinical questions.

Congratulations to the Matson Lab's own Apoorva Patil on her acceptance to graduate school! Apoorva will be matriculating into the Cellular & Molecular Pathology graduate program here at UW-Madison. Congratulations on this very well-deserved acceptance!

Kudos to the CMP graduate students for organizing a perfect de-stress event today, including a visit from local service dogs.

Happy Birthday Brittany! Thanks Usha for getting the mini bundt cakes. So good!

This year was the first Interdisciplinary Biological and Health Sciences Consortium Welcome Dinner at the Memorial Union. A great chance for applicants to hear more about the excellent mentors and training environment available to them at UW-Madison.

Excellent talk by CMP graduate student Marienela Heredia. I am always so impressed by the students in our program!

Kicking the tires on the lab's brand new BSC, just delivered and certified today. It's safe to say we had grow beyond the needs of our single unit. We decided to go with the GT trim this time for more rapid airflow spool ups off the line.

Congratulations to Usha and Brittany for having their abstracts accepted for presentation at 2025 AACR Annual Meeting! See you in Chicago!