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John Runge receives McClendon-Thomas Award

February 2, 2015
Congratulations to John Runge (Terry Magnuson lab), winner of the Bullit History of Medicine Club’s McClendon-Thomas Award. This award recognized scholarly excellence in the history of health sciences. John’s essay “Character Trials: Managing Epidemic Disease in the 19th Century American South” describes efforts to stop Yellow Fever from spreading across...

Julie Holsclaw awarded NRSA F31 fellowship

December 3, 2014
Congratulations to Julie Holsclaw (Jeff Sekelsky lab), who was awarded an NRSA F31 predoctoral fellowship from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences of the National Institutes of Health.  Her project is titled “Determining the role of Blm and Marcal1 helicases in replication fork remodeling and progression“. Please also see...

Christian Parobek awarded off-campus dissertation fellowship

November 27, 2014
Christian Parobek (Jon Juliano lab) was awarded an Off-Campus Dissertation Research Fellowship by The Graduate School. Christian will work in Cambodia during Spring 2015 collecting mRNA from the malaria vector P. vivax for his dissertation research.

Crystal Waters publishes paper in Nature Communications

August 27, 2014
Crystal Waters (Dale Ramsden lab) published an article titled “The fidelity of the ligation step determines how ends are resolved during nonhomologous end joining” published in Nature Communications 5: 4286. (Image: Model for organization of enzymatic steps during NHEJ.) Please see our page on Publications by GMB Students for more.

Jennifer Kulzer wins Cotterman Award for her Publication

August 27, 2014
Congratulations to Jennifer Kulzer (Karen Mohlke lab), whose was selected as a winner of the Cotterman Award.  This award is given annually by the American Society of Human Genetics, which selects two articles published in the American Journal of Human Genetics in the previous year that best represent outstanding scientific...

Laura Tollini publishes paper in Cancer Cell

August 21, 2014
Laura Tollini (Yanping Zhang lab) published an article titled “Regulation of p53 by Mdm2 E3 ligase function is dispensable in embryogenesis and development, but essential in response to DNA damage” published in Cancer Cell 26: 235-247. (Image: Mdm2:MdmX heterodimer regulation of p53.) Please see our page on Publications by GMB...

Glenn Wozniak publishes paper in Genes and Development

August 12, 2014
Glenn Wozniak (Brian Strahl lab) published an article titled “Catalysis-dependent stabilization of Bre1 fine-tunes Histone H2B ubiquitylation to regulation gene transcription” published in Genes and Development 28: 1647-1652. (Image: Model for Bre1 function.) Please see our page on Publications by GMB Students for more.

Alicia Greenwalt awarded NRSA F31 fellowship

July 14, 2014
Congratulations to Alicia Greenwalt (Cyrus Vaziri lab), who was awarded an NRSA F31 predoctoral fellowship from the National Cancer Institute of the National Institutes of Health.  Her project is titled “Targeting trans-lesion synthesis (TLS) for cancer therapy”.

Matt Simon publishes paper in Cell Reports

June 24, 2014
Matt Simon (Shawn Ahmed lab) published an article titled “Reduced insulin/IGF-1 signaling restores germ cell immortality to Caenorhabditis elegans Piwi mutants.” published in Cell Reports 7: 762-773. (Image: Changes in expression of tandem repeat loci, genome-wide.) Please see our page on Publications by GMB Students for more.

David Wyatt awarded American Heart Association fellowship

June 24, 2014
Congratulations to David Wyatt (Dale Ramsden lab), who was awarded a grant from the American Heart Association.  His project is titled “Mechanisms and Requirements of Alternative End Joining”.

Seven students appointed to genetics training grant

June 20, 2014
Seven students were selected to appointment to the T32 training grant, now entering it’s 40th year of NIGMS funding. These students were chosen from 22 highly qualified applicants: Salma Azam, lab of Chad Pecot Mike Conlin, lab of Dale Ramsden Philip Coryell, lab of Jeremy Purvis Julia DiFiore, lab of...

Noelle Romero receives Royster Society Dissertation Completion Fellowship

April 25, 2014
Congratulations to Noelle Romero (labs of Steve Matson and Jeff Sekelsky), who was awarded a Royster Society of Fellows Dissertation Completion Fellowship from the Graduate School for 2014-2015.