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2023 Thanksgiving
The lab celebrates Thanksgiving 2023 with a potluck at Gloria's house.
![Katie Pendleton presents a talk about her lipid metabolism research](https://cdn.bcm.edu/sites/default/files/styles/full_width_component_image_standard/public/2023-09/pendleton-echeverria-lab.jpg?itok=73goHNTT&h=19f14c2c)
2023 Metastatic Breast Cancer Research Conference
Katie Pendleton presents a talk about her lipid metabolism research at the 2023 Metastatic Breast Cancer Research Conference in Salt Lake City, Utah.
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2023 Molecular and Cellular Biology Retreat
The lab attends the 2023 Molecular and Cellular Biology Retreat at the Houston Zoo
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Dr. Steven Wall receives T32 funding
Postdoctoral Fellow Dr. Steven Wall was selected to receive T32 Translational Breast Cancer Research Training Program funding. Congrats Steven!
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Dr. Lily Baek Receives Funding Research Award
Postdoctoral fellow Dr. Lily Baek was awarded the inaugural Frank & Sandra Kimmel Postdoc Endowment Award to support her research. Congratulations Lily!
![Postdoc Lily Baek, student Katie Pendelton, and student Mariah Berner present posters at the symposium. Postdoc Lily Baek, student Katie Pendelton, and student Mariah Berner present posters at the symposium.](https://cdn.bcm.edu/sites/default/files/styles/scaled_image_without_crop/public/2022-12/san-antonio-breast-cancer-symposium-2022.png?itok=FeW3qCS3)
San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium 2022
Postdoc Lily Baek, student Katie Pendelton and student Mariah Berner present posters at the symposium.
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Echeverria Lab Holiday Party 2022
The Echeverria Lab members celebrate with a holiday party.
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Thanksgiving 2022
The Echeverria Lab celebrates with a potluck dinner at Gloria's house.
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Katherine Pendleton receives NIH F31 Graduate Research Fellowship
Katherine Pendleton, Genetics and Genomics Program Ph.D. student in the Echeverria lab, receives a National Cancer Institute F31 NRSA Fellowship Award. Congratulations Katie!
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Mariah Berner Receives Graduate Research Fellowship
Mariah Berner, Cancer and Cell Biology Ph.D. student in the Echeverria lab, receives a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship. Congratulations Mariah!
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Karen Wang Awarded Goldwater Scholarship
Karen Wang, undergraduate lab researcher and biochemistry major at Rice University, is awarded the Goldwater Scholarship. Congratulations Karen!
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Poster Presentation
Lily Baek, Ph.D., presents the lab's first-ever poster at the 2021 San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium. Great job, Lily!
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BRASS Scholar Recognition
Celebrating our lab's BRASS Scholar, Mariah Berner, at the 2021 Baylor Research Advocates for Student Scientists Holiday Party
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Thanksgiving 2021
The Echeverria Lab celebrated Thanksgiving with a potluck lunch.
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16th Annual Lester and Sue Smith Breast Center Retreat
For the first time, the lab attends the 16th Annual Lester and Sue Smith Breast Center Retreat.
![Echeverria lab participates in the Komen Race for the Cure Echeverria lab participates in the Komen Race for the Cure](https://cdn.bcm.edu/sites/default/files/styles/full_width_component_image_standard/public/2021-10/20211002_081909.jpg?itok=wTS8PYIl&h=71976bb4)
Race for the Cure
Oct. 2, 2021 - The Echeverria lab participates in its first Komen Race for the Cure in October, which is breast cancer awareness month, along with our Breast Center colleagues.
![The Echeverria lab welcomes graduate students to the lab.](https://cdn.bcm.edu/sites/default/files/styles/scaled_image_without_crop/public/2021-05/20210524_130241.jpg?itok=1kpby6Iu)
Lab Welcomes first Graduate Students
The Echeverria lab welcomes its first two graduate students to the lab, Mariah Berner of the Cancer & Cell Biology Graduate Program, and Katherine Pendleton of the Cancer & Cell Biology Graduate Program.
Echeverria Lab Receives its First Funding
The Breast Cancer Alliance Young Investigator Grant will support the lab's TNBC metabolism research.
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Lab Summer Party 2021
Members of the Echeverria Lab gathered for a summer party to enjoy the outdoors.
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First Lab meeting
June 3, 2021 - Echeverria Lab's first ever in-person lab meeting! It is finally safe for us to learn together in-person!
Metastasis Research Society, Meet Our Members: Dr. Gloria Echeverria
Feb. 16, 2021 - Dr. Echeverria featured in the Metastasis Research Society 'Meet Our Members'
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Lab Holiday Party 2020
The lab held its first ever socially distanced Echeverria Lab holiday party during December 2020.
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Gloria Echeverria Investigates an Insidious Form of Breast Cancer
Dec 1, 2020 - Dr. Echeverria is featured in December 2020's issue of The Scientist, Scientist to Watch. View article.
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Journal Club
May 5, 2020 - Zoom lab journal clubs - learning together remotely!
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Working remotely can't get us down!
April 17, 2020 - Echeverria Lab Meeting Zoom - the team is making lots of lab progress from home!
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Lab setup is moving along!
Feb. 25, 2020 - New lab members, June and Sucheshna, are getting settled and ready for some science.