UAMS Student Research Day
March 2024
The Koss lab was represented well at this year’s Student Research Day, with trainees Sydnye, Jake, and Bria presenting posters. We look forward to seeing great contributions to cancer immunotherapy from these promising students.
Fall Mentor Award
December 2023
The Fall Mentor Award was presented to Dr. Brian Koss from Jessica Kelliher.
Congratulations Brian.
Congratulations, Jessica!
December 2023
Jessica defended her thesis “Molecular Mechanisms of the Phospho-Ubiquitin Axis in the Response to Double-Stranded Breaks.”
The Koss lab welcomes Jessica Lynn Kelliher, PhD as a postdoctoral fellow to the lab in January 2024.
Annual Biomedical Research Conference for Minoritized Scientists (ABRCMS)
November 2023
Bria Hampton, PhD Student
At this conference, Bria worked as a graduate student recruiter for UAMS alongside Dean Taverna. There were thousands of undergraduates interested in pursuing research and Bria informed them of the awesome graduate programs and PIs that UAMS has to offer.
SITC 2023
November 2023
38th Annual Meeting of the Society for Immunotherapy of Cancer (SITC 2023) San Diego, CA
- “EZH2 senses metabolic stress to restore MHC-I antigen presentation and ICB response in metastatic melanoma”, Jacob Edmondson
- “Defining the role for PCK2 in T-cell metabolic plasticity in Glioblastoma”, Bria Hampton
- “Induction of an intrinsic DNA damage response during T cell exhaustion”, Jessica Kelliher
- “Discovering T cell proteome turnover dynamics to enhance persistence in solid tumors”, Sydnye Shuttleworth
- “Functional and multi-omic characterization of CAR T cells across healthy donors”, Daniel Fil and Lora Rogers
Sydnye’s summer PCAR program
August 2023
Sydnye Shuttleworth, MD/PhD student
Sydnye participated in an eight-week summer internship supported by a grant from the NIH Partnership in Cancer Research (PCAR) program. She worked on innovative approaches to engineer T cells specifically for the treatment of solid tumors. The internship included training in the IDeA National Resource for Quantitative Proteomics, housed in the UAMS Cancer Institute. Sydnye is seen pictured running her samples on the Bruker timsTOF.
Hsu and Koss Labs receive ABCRP Grant
August 2023
“Precision Environmental Health to Tackle High Early-Onset Breast Cancer in Arkansas Rural Community Health Study (ARCH)."
Burdine and Koss labs receive R21
July 2023
DNA-PKcs Regulation of LAT-Mediated Early TCR Signaling in CD4+ and CD8+ T Cells.
NIH NIAID R21AI173759
Jessica Wins WPRCI Student Poster Competition
May 2023
Congratulations to Jessica who won the award for the best student poster at the Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute retreat for her poster entitled, “Induction of an intrinsic DNA damage response during T cell exhaustion.”