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Five GMB students were selected to receive Dissertation Completion Fellowships by The Graduate School: Josh Lawrimore (Kerry Bloom lab) – Royster Society of Fellows Katy Curry (Bob Duronio lab) Mike Meers (Greg Matera lab) Katie Rehain (Amy Maddox lab) Lydia Smith (Paul Maddox lab)

Josh Lawrimore (Kerry Bloom lab) published a paper titled “Microtubule dynamics drive enhanced chromatin motion and mobilize telomeres in response to DNA damage” in聽Molecular Biology fo the Cell (DOI: 10.1091/mbc.E16-12-0846). Image: Positioning of the telomere (green) within the nucleus; see paper for details. Please see our page on Publications by...

John Noto (Greg Matera lab) published a review titled “Engineering and expressing circular RNAs via tRNA splicing“ in RNA Biology (DOI: 10.1080/15476286.2017.1317911). Image: In vivo RNA circularization pathways; see article for details. Please see our page on Publications by GMB Students for more.

Sarah Renner (Jay Brenman lab) published a paper titled “Carbonic anhydrase III (Car3) is not required for fatty acid synthesis and does not protect against high-fat diet induced obesity in mice“ in PLOS One (DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0176502). Image: Alignment of cytosolic anhydrase sequences; see paper for details. Please see our page...

Joe Durand (Al Baldwin lab) published a chapter titled “Targeting IKK and NF-魏B for Therapy“ in Advances in Protein Chemistry and Structural Biology:聽Chromatin Proteins and Transcription Factors as Therapeutic Targets (DOI: 10.1016/bs.apcsb.2016.11.006). Image: Canonical and non-canonical NF-魏B pathways; see article for details. Please see our page on Publications by GMB...

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.