October 2025
We had a great time at the PCB Department Retreat at Wrightsville Beach. Brielle and Meagan represented the lab with excellent posters – we are very proud of Meagan for being selected as a poster prize winner!
September 2025
We welcomed our first postdoc, Chloe Barrington-Ham. Chloe did her Ph.D. with Olivia Rissland at the University of Colorado School of Medicine and is an expert on translational control feedback loops between elongation and initiation. We are lucky to have her join the team!
July 2025
We said goodbye to Carolyn at a Durham Bulls game and her final poster session – Carolyn was incredibly productive this summer and we will miss her in the lab very much! Good luck with graduate school applications Carolyn!
May 2025
Welcome Carolyn Waldie, an AMGEN Scholar visiting our lab for the summer from Southwestern University. Carolyn will be studying the consequences of ribosome fall-off for the production of specific groups of arginine-rich proteins during arginine limitation.
Welcome Brielle-Anne Michel, our second graduate student! Brielle comes from the Duke University Program in Genetics and Genomics (UPGG) and will be studying how changes to tRNA abundance and modification state regulate ribosome stalling and fall-off upon arginine deprivation.
April 2025
Welcome Riya Sangwan, our first undergraduate student! Riya is a sophomore at Duke, majoring in Biology and minoring in Global Health and Medical Sociology, who will be working with Alicia and Meagan to develop a senior thesis project.
March 2025
Welcome Brielle-Anne Michel, Elizabeth Florida, and Haleigh Wooters, rotation students!
January 2025
Welcome Debbie Kitzler and Megan Benz, rotation students!
December 2024
Welcome Meagan Luck – our first graduate student! Meagan is a Pharmacology student and will be studying how ribosome ubiquitination triggers quality control during arginine limitation.
October 2024
Our lab won Most Scientific Pumpkin in the PCB Dept. pumpkin carving contest, and we are very proud. It was a ribosome pumpkin (or more specifically, a 60S large pumpkin subunit stacked on top of the Chidley lab’s smaller 40S pumpkin).
Welcome Jeff Maycock, our lab manager and first official lab member!
Welcome Cat Emanuel and Meagan Luck, our first rotation students!
September 2024
Alicia was notified that she was selected to be a Whitehead Scholar for the first 5 years at Duke. Very grateful to this support for our start-up from the Whitehead family through the School of Medicine.
July 2024
The PCB Department announced Alicia and Chris‘s appointment!
