Maia (Mace) Gabriela Clare

Curious about all, currently wondering about lactate metabolism in NSCLC | @UChicagoCCB

[Leah Ziolkowski @LeahZiolkowski]

For anyone in the area, Chicago is gathering at 12PM at the Federal Plaza on March 7th to #StandUpForScience2025!

[Maia (Mace) Gabriela Clare @ClareMaia]

@NiaHammond6 @SigmaAldrich yes please!!!

[UChicagoCancerCenter @UCCancerCenter]

The @Brandon_Faubert lab is investigating how alterations in the metabolism of cells can affect tumor growth. We visited the lab to learn more about their work. #cancermetabolism #UChiCancer50 #NothingWillStopUs

[Macleod Lab - University of Chicago @LabMacleod]

Final “Pitch” talks of our Translational Approaches in Cancer Research class with valuable feedback from Eleonara and Amanda from ⁦@CBC_ChiBiomed⁩ and ⁦@BarbaraLKee⁩ Thanks to ⁦@UChicagoCCB⁩ Big shoutout to ⁦@acerobed⁩ for being a great TA this quarter.

[UChicago Committee on Cancer Biology @UChicagoCCB]

Today, CCB students, faculty, and friends visited the Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education Center @ihmec. Thank you to the docents for the tour, Dr. Wei-Jen Tang for organizing the event, and to @DiversInclBSD for the support.

“Remember the Past, Transform the Future.”

[UChicago Committee on Cancer Biology @UChicagoCCB]

We had so much fun at the annual CCB Holiday Party!! Pizza, pipette and flask-shaped cookie decorating, and ugly sweaters… stay tuned for more photos!

[Maia (Mace) Gabriela Clare @ClareMaia]

@feridbalci @JasmineP7278 @eLife To answer your other question, I’m no expert in that specific area but quickly reading that paper, it seems to happen through a process called “entosis.” This happens when protein bridges connecting cells contract and one cell essentially eats the other. It’s wacky!

[Maia (Mace) Gabriela Clare @ClareMaia]

@feridbalci @JasmineP7278 @eLife Hello! So cell division as a process does generally happen in the same way across circumstances but it has many many steps that if any of them become unregulated, it throws off the whole process. Think of it like dominos, all of them important but separate.

[Maia (Mace) Gabriela Clare @ClareMaia]

@Muir_Lab Thank you for the opportunity!!

[Maia (Mace) Gabriela Clare @ClareMaia]

Just taught my first ever lecture! Still shaky from the adrenaline…but for my first time I think I did pretty good!! Here’s to many more :-) 👩‍🏫🧬🥼

[Maia (Mace) Gabriela Clare @ClareMaia]

Very excited to see my primary undergrad work come to fruition! https://t.co/5Tl10pjabu @LifeAtPurdue @OlsonLabPU @DalejandroCG @BYan46362780

[Maia (Mace) Gabriela Clare @ClareMaia]

@JasmineP7278 @eLife For example, chemotherapies target cells that are dividing a lot, hence why it works against cancer. The issue is that many other normal cells types are also dividing, which also get killed - hence the toxicity and how harsh it is on the patient.

[Maia (Mace) Gabriela Clare @ClareMaia]

@JasmineP7278 @eLife Of course! Yeah that’s the trick of it. Many currently used treatments exploit that idea, the cancer just gets smart and figures out how to grow without whatever it is targeting. Not all hope is lost! with machine learning/AI growing in the field, who knows!!

[Maia (Mace) Gabriela Clare @ClareMaia]

@JasmineP7278 @eLife So: we will never find a “cure” (at least in my opinion) but will further optimize the ways we treat to be specific to each cancer type, and even more, each individual. 3/3

[Maia (Mace) Gabriela Clare @ClareMaia]

@JasmineP7278 @eLife That’s why many things are said to “cause” cancer because there are many things that could potentially change your cells into uncontrollable growing machines but overall the likelihood is actually rare. Due to the nature of this variability, we can’t treat them all the same.

[Maia (Mace) Gabriela Clare @ClareMaia]

@joce_hsu @UChicago @UChicagoCCB Excited to have you here!!!

[Tomás Gomes (@tomsgoms.bsky.social) @tomsgoms]

Research can be hard, but there are ways to make it simpler.

Here are some tips for working in the lab

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[Elf Lab 🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️⚧️👊🏾👊🏽🌈🟧💊🍉💉 @TheElfLab]

Big hooray for all the first years in @UChicagoCCB passing their prelim exams! 🥳🍾🎉 @NiaHammond6 @ClareMaia Kasia K, Kasia Z, Sidney, and Will!

[Paul Vulliamy @Paulvulliamy]

White Blood Cells in Colour