June 20, 2025 — Lab Research Published in iScience
Reduced nephrin tyrosine phosphorylation impairs podocyte force transmission and accelerates…
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June 16, 2025 — Congratulations Casey
Postdoctoral fellow Dr. Casey Williamson is this year's recipient of the…
June 13, 2025 — Lab Research Presented at 15th International Podocyte Conference
Post Doc Dr. Casey Williamson presented a poster on "Reduced nephrin tyrosine phosphorylation impairs podocyte force transmission and accelerates detachment in disease", and PhD Student Alice Wang presented a talk in the Emerging Career Highlights session at this year's International Podocyte Conference in Hamburg, Germany.
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June 5, 2025 — Jones Lab at ICCI Symposium
Jones Lab members Hayley Smith and Erka Shata presented posters…
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June 2, 2025 — Lab Review Published in Biochemical Journal
Revisiting nephrin signaling and its specialized effects on the uniquely…
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May 30, 2025 — Congratulations Cassie!
Congratulations to our newest MSc graduate, Cassandra Clausen, for her successful defense on Investigating the Role of Adaptor Protein ShcD in the Oligodendrocyte Lineage!
May 24, 2025 — Jones Lab at Canadian Association of Neuroscience (CAN) Conference
Jones Lab members Cassandra Clausen, Hyeyun Yang, and Alice Nielissen…
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May 15th, 2025 — Happy end of W25
The Jones Lab celebrates the end of the 2024-2025 academic year in the nice weather with lunch and ice-cream!
May 2, 2025 — Jones Lab at CBS Graduate Student Symposium
The Jones Lab students all presented posters at this year's CBS Graduate Student Symposium. Hayley Smith also presented a brilliant talk!
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May 1, 2025 — Welcome Summer Students
The Jones Lab welcomes our 2025 summer students! Welcome to…
March 28, 2025 — Lab Research Published in Molecular Oncology
ShcD Adaptor Protein Drives Invasion of Triple Negative Breast Cancer…
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March 24, 2025 — Jones Lab at Banff Conference on Signaling in Normal and Cancer Cells
Jones Lab Members Nate Petersen, Erka Shata, and Hayley Smith attended this year's conference where Hayley and Erka presented lightening talks and Nate presented a poster.
March 24, 2025 — BIOM Undergraduate Project Presentations
Jones lab undergrad Alice Nielissen successfully presented her presentation for…
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December 16, 2024 — Happy Holidays
Oct 31, 2024 — Happy Halloween
Happy Halloween from the Jones Lab! We had a fun and festive time dressing up as the Twilight Baseball scene for MCB departmental trick-or-treating.
Oct 2, 2024 — Jones Lab at Vancouver Invadosome Consortium
Hayley Smith and Erka Shata are attending this year's Invadosome Consortium in Vancouver. Today, Erka presented her work on Nck adaptor proteins!
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Sept 29, 2024 — Jones Lab at the Kidney Walk
Thank you to everyone who participated in this year's Kidney Walk!
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Sept 24, 2024 — Kidney “Bake” Sale Fundraiser
Our continuously evolving annual kidney "bake sale" fundraiser is happening today to support the Kidney Foundation of Canada. We had lots of treats, appetizers, and even stickers! At our bake sale, we made just over $800 - wow!
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Sept 20, 2024 — Alice wins MCB Pharmacia Award
Congratulations to Alice Wang for receiving the MCB Pharmacia Poster Award…
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September 5, 2024 — Welcome New Students
The Jones lab is very excited to have Matt Hibbert and Nate Petersen back for an MSc and PhD, respectively. The Jones Lab also welcomes new undergraduate student, Ali Nielissen, and welcomes back Abby Vyn as fourth year project students!
Aug 22nd, 2024— Congratulations Nate!
Congratulations to Jones/Zhang lab's Nate Petersen, for his successful defense on Modulation of Receptor Tyrosine Kinases Using Ubiquitin Variant Induced Proximity!
Aug 13, 2024 — Jones Lab at Ontario Cell Biology Symposium
Jones Lab attended and help hosted the Ontario Cell Biology Symposium at the University of Guelph this year. Many of our students, including Alice, Cassie, Erka, Hayley, and Hyeyun were on the student organizing committee and led several initiatives such as setting up networking BINGO, a photobooth, and lab-equipment based guessing games!
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Aug 9, 2024 — 17th Annual CBS Undergraduate Poster Day
Congratulations to all of the undergraduate students who participated in the College of Biological Science Annual Undergraduate Poster Day today and presented their summer research projects! From the Jones lab, Abby, Nikoo, and Matt presented posters.
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Aug 1, 2024 — Lab Research Published in Endocrinology
Reduced Nephrin Tyrosine Phosphorylation Enhances Insulin Secretion and Increases Glucose…
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July 11, 2024 — Jones Lab Receives CIHR Funding
The Jones Lab is elated to receive $879,750 in federal funding from CIHR to study the molecular mechanisms behind podocyte health and disease.
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