April 2024. Zach gives a talk in Baltimore, MD on the lab’s research at Pathobiology 2024, Mechanisms of Disease: The Annual Meeting of the American Society for Investigative Pathology.

April 2024. Multiple members of the Schafer Lab attend the AACR Annual Meeting in San Diego, CA. Congrats to Jianping He and Mackenzie Kelleher on presenting their research!

March 2024. Jamie Schofield successfully defends his dissertation. He is the 10th Ph.D. to graduate from the Schafer Lab! Congrats Dr. Schofield!

March 2024. The Schafer Lab attends the Annual Amelia Project Conference at Indiana University-Kokomo, where Zach gives a talk on the lab’s research. This conference brings together breast cancer researchers from Indiana University-Bloomington, Indiana University School of Medicine, Purdue University, and Notre Dame.

March 2024. Congrats to Jamie Schofield on the publication of his paper on Acod1-mediated immune evasion in Cell Reports! Other Schafer Lab members who are co-authors include undergraduate student Emma Albano and former Ph.D. student Mark Hawk. Special thanks to our collaborators at the Van Andel Institute: Rusty Jones, Joe Longo, Ryan Sheldon, and Abigail Ellis. Additional collaborators include Xin Lu, Sean Murphy, Loan Duong, and Sharif Rahmy from Notre Dame. Full text here.

March 2024. The Schafer Lab officially welcomes Michael Douglas, who has joined the Schafer Lab for his Ph.D. studies!

February 2024. Zach gives a talk on the lab’s research in the Department of Pathology Seminar Series at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, TX.

January 2024. The Schafer Lab welcomes Carlos Arias Matus and Michael Douglas for their 3rd rotations.

December 2023. The Schafer Lab officially welcomes Zhengrong Huang, who has joined the Schafer Lab for her Ph.D. studies!

December 2023. The Schafer Lab officially welcomes Lauren Young, who has joined the Schafer Lab for her Ph.D. studies!

November 2023. Congrats to Matthew Fink on passing his qualifying exams and becoming a Ph.D. candidate!

November 2023. Congrats to Hannah Tanczos on passing her qualifying exams and becoming a Ph.D. candidate!

October 2023. Zach speaks about the lab’s research in the inaugural CoE-III Symposium at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital in Memphis, TN.

October 2023. The Schafer Lab welcomes Lauren Young and Anna Wenninger for their 2nd rotations.

September 2023. Graduate student Jamie Schofield gives a talk on his research at the Aegean Conference on the Tumor Microenvironment and Cellular Stress in Kalamata, Greece.

August 2023. The Schafer Lab welcomes Zhengrong Huang for her 1st rotation.

July 2023. Congrats to Dr. Lisa Hom on the publication of her paper in the Journal of Biological Chemistry! ND student authors include Sunny Sun, Jamie Campbell, Shannon Culbert, and Ireland Murphy. Full text here.

June 2023. The Schafer Lab welcomes Jayden Wang (Penn High School) and Laura Rodriguez Hernandez (Goshen College) as summer students.

May 2023. Congrats to Dr. Jianping He on the publication of his paper in iScience. Thanks to Ryan Sheldon and Rusty Jones from the Van Andel Institute for collaborating with us on this study. ND student authors include Abigail Abikoye, Brett McLaughlin, and Ryan Middleton. Full text here.

May 2023. Graduating senior Isabella Gomez receives the award for “Outstanding Biological Scientist” from the Department of Biological Sciences at Notre Dame. Congrats to Isabella! She is off to Pitt for medical school.

May 2023. Graduate student Matthew Fink receives the Teaching Assistant Award from Notre Dame Graduate Student Government. Congrats Matthew!

May 2023. Graduate student Hannah Tanczos gives a superb talk at the Midwest Imaging & Microanalysis Workshop hosted by NDIIF.

April 2023. Graduate student Jamie Schofield receives two awards at the annual Cancer Research Day hosted by the Harper Cancer Research Institute: 1st place Poster Award and Exceptional Team Science Award. Congrats Jamie!

April 2023. Multiple Schafer Lab members present their research at the AACR Annual Meeting in Orlando, Florida. Great job by Jamie Schofield, Jianping He, and Lisa Hom!

April 2023. Lisa Hom successfully defends her dissertation. She is the 9th Ph.D. to graduate from the Schafer Lab. This summer she will be starting a postdoctoral fellowship with Dr. Athanasia Panopoulos at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. Congrats Dr. Hom!

March 2023. Zach speaks about the lab’s research in the Breast Disease Research Seminar Series at Baylor College of Medicine.

February 2023. Zach speaks at Yale University School of Medicine to the Notre Dame Clubs of New Haven, Southeastern Connecticut, and Greater Hartford as part of the Hesburgh Lecture Series.

October 2022. Zach gives a talk on the lab’s research at the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at Drexel College of Medicine in Philadelphia, PA.

September 2022. Zach and and Lisa Hom attend the Metastatic Breast Cancer Research Conference in Park City, Utah. Congrats to Lisa on a well-received poster presentation.

September 2022. Jamie Schofield and Jianping He present their research at the Tumor Metabolism Keystone Meeting in Keystone, Colorado.

May 2022. Graduating senior Abigail Abikoye receives the Richard J. Wood Student Community Commitment Award from Community-Engaged Alliance. She is only the 13th student from Notre Dame to receive this prestigious recognition. Abigail is also the recipient of the Outstanding Biology Student Leader award. Congrats Abigail!

May 2022. Graduating senior Casey Leimbach is recognized with the Braco Honors Research Award for her work in the lab. Congrats Casey!

May 2022. Zach and Lisa Hom both give talks at the Gordon Research Conference on Cell Death in Les Diablerets, Switzerland.

May 2022. Jordan Cockfield receives the Exemplary Graduate Career Award from the Department of Biological Sciences at Notre Dame. Congrats Jordan!

April 2022. Jamie Schofield gives a talk at the Cancer Metabolism Showcase. Congrats Jamie!

February 2022. Zach gives a talk on the lab’s research at the Department of Pathology & Microbiology at the University of Nebraska Medical Center.

January 2022. Zach gives a talk on the lab’s research at the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at Brigham Young University in Provo, UT.

December 2021. Zach is profiled by Notre Dame Research in an article entitled “Routine of a Cancer Cell Biologist”. Link to article here. Thanks to Matt Cashore for taking time from his busy schedule taking photos of much more interesting things to tag along with Zach for a couple of days.

November 2021. Jordan Cockfield successfully defends her dissertation. She is the 8th Ph.D. student to graduate from the Schafer Lab. Jordan is off to start a postdoctoral fellowship with Dr. Charles Roberts at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. Congrats Dr. Cockfield!

September 2021. Congrats to Matyas Abel Tsegaye on the publication of his paper in Scientific Reports. Other authors include lab members Jianping He, Kyle McGeehan, Ireland Murphy, and Mati Nemera. Full text here.

September 2021. Zach gives a talk on the lab’s research at the Metastatic Breast Cancer Research Conference in Park City, Utah.

May 2021. Matyas Abel Tsegaye successfully defended his dissertation. He is the 7th Ph.D. to graduate from the Schafer Lab. Matyas will be moving to Chicago to start work as a Consultant with Boston Consulting Group. Congrats Dr. Tsegaye!

March 2021. Congrats to Josh Mason and Jordan Cockfield on the publication of their paper in Cell Reports! Great collaboration with Inma Martinez-Reyes and Nav Chandel from Northwestern as well as Juan Liu, Xiaojing Liu, and Jason Locasale from Duke. Lots of ND student authors as well: Daniel Pape, Hannah Meissner, Michael Sokolowski, and summer students Taylor White and Jose Valentin-Lopez. Full text here.