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Oscar Arroyo named HHMI Gilliam Fellows with Mentor Dan McKay

August 3, 2023
ºÚÁÏÍø graduate student Oscar Arroyo from Daniel McKay’s lab was among 50 students across the United States named as Gilliam Fellows by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. The Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) announced the 2023 class of 50 Gilliam Fellows conducting outstanding research in their respective scientific...

Jeanne-Marie McPherson awarded NRSA F31 Fellowship

March 31, 2023
Congratulations to Jeanne-Marie McPherson (Bob Duronio and Dan McKay labs), who was awarded an NRSA F31 predoctoral fellowship from the National Institute on Aging of the National Institutes of Health. Jeanne-Marie’s project is titled “Interrogating the roles of canonical versus variant histone H3 in genome function during aging.”     Please also...

Nila Pazhayam awarded NRSA F31 Fellowship

August 10, 2022
Congratulations to Nila Pazhayam (Jeff Sekelsky lab), who was awarded an NRSA F31 predoctoral fellowship from the National Institute on Aging of the National Institutes of Health.  Nila’s project is titled “Preventing Age-Associated Oocyte Aneuploidy: Mechanisms Behind the Drosophila melanogaster Centromere Effect.”   Please also see our page on Grants...

Marta Cruz Cisneros awarded Graduate Diversity Enrichment grant from BWF

October 1, 2021
Congratulations to Marta Cruz Cisneros (Mark Heise lab) on being awarded Graduate Diversity Enrichment Program grant from Burroughs Wellcome Fund. The GDEP is a two-year grant to underrepresented minority PhD students enrolled in NC Institutions of Higher Education. Please also see our page on Grants to GMB Students.

Elyssa Vogt awarded Graduate Diversity Enrichment grant from BWF

October 1, 2021
Congratulations to Elyssa Vogt (Amy Gladfelter lab) on being awarded Graduate Diversity Enrichment Program grant from Burroughs Wellcome Fund. The GDEP is a two-year grant to underrepresented minority PhD students enrolled in NC Institutions of Higher Education. Please also see our page on Grants to GMB Students.

Brea Hampton awarded F99/K00 transition grant from NIA

September 15, 2021
Congratulations to Brea Hampton (Mark Heise and Marty Ferris), who was awarded an F99/K00 transition fellowship from the National Institute on Aging. This award supports the transition to the postdoctoral phase by providing funding for the final 1-2 years of graduate studies (F99 phase) and the first two years of postdoctoral...

Carolyn Turcotte awarded NRSA F31 Fellowship

August 10, 2021
Congratulations to Carolyn Turcotte (Jeff Sekelsky lab), who was awarded an NRSA F31 predoctoral fellowship from the National Institute on Aging of the National Institutes of Health.  Carolyn’s project is titled “Mechanisms and regulation of meiotic recombination.”   Please also see our page on Grants to GMB Students.

Emma Hinkle awarded NRSA F31 Fellowship

March 16, 2021
Congratulations to Emma Hinkle (Jimena Giudice lab), who was awarded an NRSA F31 predoctoral fellowship from the National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases of the National Institutes of Health.  Emma’s project is titled “Alternative splicing regulation and mechanotransduction in skeletal muscle.” Please also see our page on...

Sarah Brotman awarded NRSA F31 fellowship

February 15, 2021
Congratulations to Sarah Brotman (Karen Mohlke lab), who was awarded an NRSA F31 predoctoral fellowship from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute of the National Institutes of Health.  Sarah’s project is titled “Analyzing gene expression in adipose tissue to identify candidate genes at cardiometabolic trait GWAS loci.” Please also...

Matt Stevenson awarded F31 grant from NCI

January 19, 2021
Matt Stevenson (Lori O’Brien lab) received an NRSA F31 grant from the National Cancer Institute. The title of Matt’s project is “Elucidating oncogenic mechanisms underlying Wilms tumor using kidney organoids.”   Please see our page on Grants to GMB Students for more.

Rachel Cherney awarded F31 grant from NICHD

July 25, 2020
Rachel Cherney (Mauro Calabrese lab) received an NRSA F31 grant from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development. The title of Rachel’s project is “Regulation of Polycomb by long noncoding RNAs during pre-implantation development.”   Please see our page on Grants to GMB Students for...

Nisitha Sengottuvel awarded F30 fellowship

May 1, 2020
Nisitha Sengottuvel (Chad Pecot lab) was awarded an NRSA F30 fellowship from NIH’s National Cancer Institute. Nisitha’s project is titled “The role of SPON1 expressing inflammatory monocytes in promoting lung cancer metastasis.” Please also see our page on Grants to GMB Students.