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Michaelyn Hartmann (Jeff Sekelsky lab) published an article titled “The absence of crossovers on chromosome 4 in Drosophila melanogaster: Imperfection or interesting exception?“ in Fly (DOI: 10.1080/19336934.2017.1321181). Image: Comparison of crossover rates on proximal 2L and 4; see article for details. Please see our page on Publications by GMB Students...

Talia Hatkevich (Jeff Sekelsky lab) was inducted into the Frank Porter Graham Graduate and Professional Student Honor Society. This award recognizes “outstanding service provided to the University and community by graduate and professional students.”聽 Professors Jeff Sekelsky and Greg Copenhaver were also inducted for “outstanding contributions to the development of...

Stephanie Bellendir (Jeff Sekelsky lab) and Danielle Rognstad (Jeff Sekelsky and Dorothy Erie labs) published an article titled “Substrate preference of Gen endonucleases highlights the importance of branched structures as DNA damage repair intermediates.” in Nucleic Acids Research (DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkx214). Image: Model for cleavage of Holliday junctions and flap substrates;...

Mike Meers (Greg Matera lab) published an article titled “Histone gene replacement reveals a post-transcriptional role for H3K36 in maintaining metazoan transcriptome fidelity” in eLife. (DOI: 10.7554/eLife.23249)聽 Image: Hex-plot heatmap plotting novel, unannotated transcription start sites by their location relative to the boundaries of the nearest gene and change in...

Becky Bigler (Anne Taylor lab) published an article titled “Messenger RNAs localized to distal projections of human stem cell derived neurons” in Scientific Reports (DOI: 10.1038/s41598-017-00676-w) Image: Micrographs of somatic, axon, and dendritic compartments of聽neurons cultured within a microfluidic chambers during maturation; see article for details. Please see our page...

Congratulations to Mira Pronobis (PhD 2016, Mark Peifer lab) who was named runner up for the Larry Sandler Award. This award is given annually by the Genetics Society of America for the most outstanding dissertation in any area of Drosophila research internationally.

Kendall Lough (Scott Williams lab) was awarded an NRSA F31 fellowship from the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research. Kendall is researching the role of nectin adhesion proteins and their downstream effector afadin in palate closure. Please also see our page on Grants to GMB Students.

Tim Dinh (Praveen Sethupathy聽lab) published an article titled “Comprehensive analysis of The Cancer Genome Atlas reveals a unique gene and non-coding RNA signature of fibrolamellar carcinoma” in Scientific Reports (DOI: 10.1038/srep44653) Image: Hierarchical clustering of fibrolamellar carcinoma, hepatocellular carcinoma, and cholangiocarcinoma samples in TCGA.; see article for details. Please see...

Julie Korda Holsclaw (Jeff Sekelsky lab) published an article titled “Annealing of Complementary DNA Sequences During Double-Strand Break Repair in Drosophila Is Mediated by the Ortholog of SMARCAL1″ in Genetics (DOI: 10.1534/genetics.117.200238). Image: Reduction in SDSA in Marcal1 and BRCA2 mutants; see article for details. Please see our page on...

Rowan Beck (Praveen Sethupathy and Mirek Styblo labs) published a review article titled, “Arsenic exposure and type 2 diabetes: MicroRNAs as mechanistic links?” in Current Diabetes Reports (DOI: 10.1007/s11892-017-0845-8).    

Congratulations to Rowan Beck (Praveen Sethupathy and Mirek Styblo labs), who was awarded 1st聽prize for the Metals Specialty Section Graduate Student Awards for the annual聽Society of Toxicology meeting. Rowan’s poster was on her research into microRNAs as potential mediators of the effects of arsenicals on pancreatic beta cell function.

Carrie Wilczewski (Frank Conlon lab) was awarded an NRSA F31 fellowship from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute. The title of her project is “Transcriptional repression by the Nucleosome Remodeling and Deacetylase (NuRD) complex in cardiac development and human disease.“ Please also see our page on Grants to GMB...