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Katie Headley publishes paper in Stem Cell Research

June 5, 2019
Katie Headley (Nate Hathaway lab) published a paper titled “Chemical screen for epigenetic barriers to single allele activation of Oct4“ in Stem Cell Research (DOI: 10.1016/j.scr.2019.101470). Image: Results of a small molecule screen for chemical facilitators of CiA:Oct4 activation; see article for details. Please see our page on Publications by...

Eliza Thulson awarded NSF Graduate Research Fellowship

May 25, 2019
Congratulations to Eliza Thulson (Doug Phanstiel lab), who was awarded a Graduate Research Fellowship from the National Science Foundation. Please also see our page on Grants to GMB Students.

Hannah Wiedner awarded NSF Graduate Research Fellowship

May 25, 2019
Congratulations to Hannah Wiedner (Jimena Giudice lab), who was awarded a Graduate Research Fellowship from the National Science Foundation. Please also see our page on Grants to GMB Students.

Salma Azam publishes paper in Oncogene

May 6, 2019
Salma Azam (Chad Pecot lab) published an article titled “Quaking orchestrates a post-transcriptional regulatory network of endothelial cell cycle progression critical to angiogenesis and metastasis” in Oncogene. (DOI: 10.1038/s41388-019-0786-6)  Image:Perturbation of the Quaking/miR-200 pathway inhibits endothelial sprouting; click to enlarge; see article for details. Please see our page on Publications...

Chris Uyehara publishes paper in PNAS

May 1, 2019
Chris Uyehara (Dan McKay lab) published a paper titled “Direct and widespread role for the nuclear receptor EcR in mediating the response to ecdysone in Drosophila” in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1900343116). Image: Expression of the broad gene without and with expression of an ecdysone receptor;...

Casey Schmidt publishes paper in Nucleic Acids Research

May 1, 2019
Casey Schmidt (Greg Matera lab) published an article titled “Molecular determinants of metazoan tricRNA biogenesis” in Nucleic Acids Research. (DOI: 110.1093/nar/gkz311)  Image: tRNA splicing pathways; click to enlarge; see article for details. Please see our page on Publications by GMB Students for more.

Kelsey Gray awarded Fulbright Fellowship

March 8, 2019
Kelsey Gray (recent graduate of Greg Matera lab) was awarded a Fulbright Fellowship to do education research at Tibetan monasteries in India. After receiving her PhD in Genetics and Molecular Biology in 2017, Kelsey did postdoctoral research with the Emory-Tibet Science Initiative. The Fulbright Fellowship allows her to continue and expand...

Megan Justice selected for Yale Ciencia Initiative

March 8, 2019
Megan Justice (Jill Dowen lab) was selected to participate in the Yale University Ciencia Initiative. Throughout 2019, Megan will participate in a program designed “to expand access to scientific knowledge, experiences, and careers among communities or populations traditionally underrepresented in, or underserved by, the scientific enterprise.”

Tim Dinh publishes paper in Cell. Molec. Gastroenterology and Hepatology

March 8, 2019
Tim Dinh (Praveen Sethupathy lab) published an article titled “MicroRNA-375 Suppresses the Growth and Invasion of Fibrolamellar Carcinoma” in Cellular and Molecular Gastroenterology and Hepatology. Image: miR-375 is a candidate master regulator of cancer pathways in FLC; click to enlarge; see article for details.) Please see our page on Publications...

Kristi Schaefer publishes review in Developmental Cell

March 8, 2019
Kristi Schaefer (recent graduate of Mark Peifer lab) published a review article titled “Wnt/Beta-Catenin Signaling Regulation and a Role for Biomolecular Condensates” in Developmental Cell (DOI:10.1016/j.devcell.2019.01.025). Image: textbook model of Wnt signalling; click to enlarge; see article for details.) Please see our page on Publications by GMB Students for more.

Lauren Donoghue wins outstanding presentation award at Mammalian Genome Conference…TWICE!

January 31, 2019
Lauren Donoghue (Samir Kelada lab) received the Lorraine Flaherty Award for outstanding oral presentation in the Trainee Symposium at the 32nd International Mammalian Genome Conference in Puerto Rico. As winner of that award, Lauren was selected to give her presentation again in the main conference section, where she again was selected...

Talia Hatkevich receives DeLill Nasser Award

January 31, 2019
Talia Hatkevich (Jeff Sekelsky lab) was selected for a DeLill Nasser Award for Professional Development in Genetics from the Genetics Society of America. Talia will use the award to travel to the Drosophila Research Conference where she has been selected to give a talk. Please also see our page on...