Echeverria Lab News

Lily, Mariah and Steven present their research at the 2026 Keystone Meeting for Mitochondrial Biology in Health and Disease.

Lab attends dinner with Janice Cowden, breast cancer patient research advocate and collaborator.

• Farewell party, wishing Audra good luck in her M.D./Ph.D. program at BCM, and Karen, best wishes for her Ph.D. program at UNC!
• Our 19th retreat was a huge success with excellent science, networking, and socializing. The lab won several awards:
  • Katie Pendleton, 3rd place oral talk award
  • Mariah Berener, 3rd place poster award
  • Lily Baek, 1st place poster award
  • Steven Wall, Best karaoke award
• Cancer and Cell Biology graduate student Mariah Berner presents her poster at the 2025 Keystone Conference for Precision Oncology

• Dr. Steven Wall awarded the American Cancer Society Postdoctoral Fellowship. The fellowship will fund his research into mechanisms of electron transport chain regulation in TNBC. Congratulations, Steven!
• Katie Pendleton G&G student presents her poster at the 2024 Cancer Biology Training Consortium Conference
• Graduate student Mariah Berner wins first place poster presentation at the 2024 Metabolism in Cancer Symposium at MDACC
• Postdoc Dr. Lily Baek wins first place in the scientific image contest for the 2024 Dan L Duncan Cancer Center Research Symposium
• Lab attends 2024 Mitochondria in Cancer Symposium at MD Anderson

• The lab participated in the poster session and ugly sweater contest. Postdoc Dr. Lily Bake won 3rd place for her poster and student Katie Pendleton won the ugly sweater contest!
• The lab celebrates Thanksgiving 2023 with a potluck at Gloria's house
• The lab dressed up as Snow White and the Seven Dwarves for the 2023 MCB Department Halloween Party
• The lab participates in the 2023 Komen Race for the Cure
• Katie Pendleton presented her lipid metabolism research at the 2023 Metastatic Breast Cancer Research Conference in Salt Lake City, Utah
• The lab attends the 2023 Molecular and Cellular Biology Retreat at the Houston Zoo
• Postdoctoral Fellow Dr. Steven Wall was selected to receive T32 Translational Breast Cancer Research Training Program funding. Congrats Steven!