Carpenter Lab

My department at IU in Bloomington is hiring a 12-month, tenure-track faculty position in Cancer Biology. We seek applicants in all areas of Cancer Biology.

Please share with anyone interested in applying. indiana.peopleadmin.com/postings/31425

Congratulations to Sunandan Chakrabarti from my lab for winning a Travel Award for his abstract and oral presentation at the @stresscell.bsky.social Symposium on HSPs in Biology, Medicine & the Environment this past week in Syracuse, NY. Thanks to the organizers for recognizing his work!

Happy to announce our lab was awarded a Core Pilot Grant from the IndianaCTSI to assess some epigenetic changes associated with HDAC inhibitors in ovarian cancers. Big congratulations to Matt O'Malley in my lab that put in a lot of effort to help write and submit this proposal.

You should have let me know, I would have bought tickets to watch this re-enactment.

My department at Dartmouth Medical School is hiring a tenure-track Assistant Professor. We are looking broadly for a biochemist or cell biologist. Please share this add! apply.interfolio.com/171438
@dartmouthbcb.bsky.social @futurepislack.bsky.social

Lab field trip scheduled for 2027

Congrats Paul!

FEBS Press The heat shock factors (HSFs) are evolutionarily conserved transcription factors best known as regulators of molecular chaperone genes in response to heat shock and other protein-damaging stresses. V...

A really good review on the biology of HSFs was just published by Lea Sistonen and Eva Henriksson and colleagues. Highly recommend checking this one out:

febs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Congratulations to Sunandan Chakrabarti for winning Outstanding CMCB Graduate Student for 2025!

Congratulations to PhD student Haddie DeHart for winning First Prize for Graduate Students in Basic Science at IUSCCC Cancer Research Day!

Congratulations to Dr. Natasha Hockaden who successfully defended her thesis today! Great job Natasha!

You can read about her project involving a role for HSF1 during metastatic colonization here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Happy birthday to PhD student Matt O’Malley!

Welcome Mehdi and congrats to you and Sarah!

Thanks Shefali!

We are very happy that our R01 from @theNCI was officially awarded last week! This award is based on our recent work involving HSF1 in breast cancer. A huge thank you and congrats to all of our lab members that did so much good work to get us to this point.

Congratulations to Haddie DeHart for winning People’s Choice Award in the 3 Minute Thesis Competition!

MYC and HSF1 Cooperate to Drive Sensitivity to Polo-like Kinase 1 Inhibitor Volasertib in High Grade Serous Ovarian Cancer Abstract. Ovarian cancer is a deadly gynecological disease with frequent recurrence. Current treatments for patients include platinum-based therapy regimens with PARP inhibitors specific for HR-defici...

Congrats to our team and collaborators for getting this new paper published in Canc Res Comm!

doi.org/10.1158/2767...

Call your Senators regarding the pause on federal grants and assistance programs. Please and thank you.

Holiday time with (most of) the Carpenter Lab!

I currently have an opening in my lab for a Laboratory Research Assistant. Potential candidates must have their bachelor's. You can find more information here: hrms.iu.edu/psp/PH1PRD_P...

Our lab just moved to the IU Biology Department and we are accepting new graduate students.
biology.indiana.edu

The deadline for applications is Dec 1st.
biology.indiana.edu/graduate/gen...