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Christian Parobek publishes paper in PNAS

December 13, 2016
Christian Parobek (Jonathon Juliano lab) published an article titled “Selective sweep suggests transcriptional regulation may underlie Plasmodium vivax resilience to malaria control measures in Cambodia” in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (Early Edition). Image: Manhattan plot of sites under strong selection; see article for details. Please see our...

Christian Parobek publishes paper in Molecular Ecology Resources

December 13, 2016
Christian Parobek (Jonathon Juliano lab) published an article titled “skelesim: an extensible, general framework for population genetic simulation in R” in Molecular Ecology Resources. Image: Output from skelesim simulations. See article for details. Please see our page on Publications by GMB Students for more.

AMY GLADFELTER NAMED HHMI FACULTY SCHOLAR

September 23, 2016
Congratulations to GMB faculty member Dr Amy Gladfelter (Department of Biology), who has been named a Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) Faculty Scholar. This designation is awarded to early-career scientists who have great potential to make unique contributions to their field. Dr. Gladfelter’s research focuses on how multinucleate cells are organized...

Catherine Fahey and Julia DiFiore publishes paper in Journal of Biological Chemistry

September 22, 2016
Catherine Fahey (Kim Rathmell and Ian Davis labs) and Julia DiFiore (Brian Strahl lab) published an article titled “Structure/function analysis of recurrent mutations in SETD2 reveals a critical and conserved role for a SET domain residue in maintaining protein stability and H3K36 trimethylation” in Journal of Biology Chemistry (online ahead...

Taylor Penke publishes paper in Genes and Development

September 7, 2016
Taylor Penke (Bob Duronio lab) published an article titled “Direct interrogation of the role of H3K9 in metazoan heterochromatin function” in Genes and Development 30: 1866-1880. (Image: Cover showing Drosophila polytene chromosome from an H3K9R mutant stained with antibody for H3K9me3; see article for details.) Please see our page on...

Aminah Wali publishes paper in PNAS

September 7, 2016
Aminah Wali (Ian Davis lab) published an article titled “High-throughput small molecule screen identifies inhibitors of aberrant chromatin accessibility” in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 113: 3018-23. (Image: Heat map of normalized FAIRE enrichment; see article for details.) Please see our page on Publications by GMB Students for...

Nicole Tackmann publishes paper in Cancer Research

August 22, 2016
Nicole Tackmann (Yanping Zhang lab) published an article titled “RPL23 links oncogenic RAS signaling to p53-mediated tumor suppression” in Cancer Research (online ahead of print). (Image: Ki-67 staining of skin tumors in mice, showing the effect of Mdm2m/m genotype; see article for details.) Please see our page on Publications by...

Nicole Tackmann receives Horizon Award Fellowship from DoD

August 22, 2016
Nicole Tackmann (Yanping Zhang lab) has received a Horizon Award fellowship from the Department of Defense for her project titled, “Characterizing the Role of Hep27 in Liver and Colorectal Cancer Stress Tolerance.” Please also see our page on Grants to GMB Students.

Tamara Roman wins Cotterman Award for her Publication

August 15, 2016
Congratulations to Tamara Roman (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...

Maren Cannon selected as finalist for the Charles J. Epstein Trainee Award for Excellence in Human Genetics Research

August 15, 2016
Congratulations to Maren Cannon (Karen Mohlke lab), who was selected as a finalist for the Charles J. Epstein Trainee Award for Excellence in Human Genetics Research. The American Society of Human Genetics honors excellence in trainee research through awards that recognize highly competitive abstracts submitted and presented at the ASHG...

David Wyatt publishes paper in Molecular Cell

August 14, 2016
David Wyatt (Dale Ramsden lab) published an article titled “Essential roles for polymerase θ-mediated end joining in the repair of chromosome breaks” in Molecular Cell (online ahead of print). (Image: Schematic showing when theta-mediated end joining is important.) Please see our page on Publications by GMB Students for more.

Noelle Romero publishes paper in Genetics

August 14, 2016
Noelle Romero (Steve Matson lab and Jeff Sekelsky lab) published an article titled “Biochemical activities and genetic functions of the Drosophila melanogaster Fancm helicase in DNA repair” in Genetics (online ahead of print). (Image: Mitotic crossovers in different Fancm mutants.) Please see our page on Publications by GMB Students for...