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Lauren Donoghue (Samir Kelada lab) has been selected to attend the Leena Peltonen School of Human Genomics program in Switzerland in August. Graduate and postdoctoral trainees gather with leading experts in the field for interactive discussions and presentations on cutting-edge topics in human genetics and genomics. Participants also receive one-to-one...

Kale Hartmann and Talia Hatkevich (Jeff Sekelsky lab) published an article titled “Meiotic MCM proteins promote and inhibit crossovers during meiotic recombination.” in Genetics (DOI: 10.1534/genetics.119.302221). Image:Schematic of meiotic MCM protein structures; see article for details. Please see our page on Publications by GMB Students for more.

Lauren Donoghue (Samir Kelada 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...

Brea Hampton (co-mentored by Mark Heise and Marty Ferris) was selected to receive a Gilliam Fellowship for Advanced Study from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. The goal of the program is “to increase the diversity among scientists who are prepared to assume leadership roles in science, particularly as college and...

Kia Perez-Vale (Mark Peifer lab) was awarded an NRSA F31 fellowship from NIH’s National Institute for General Medical Sciences. Kia’s project is titled “Defining the molecular mechanisms underlying apical-basal polarity establishment and morphogenesis.”聽 (Photo: Kia received the funding notification while participating in the Gordon Research Conference on Cell Contact and...

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...

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.

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

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聽Emory-Tibet Science Initiative. The Fulbright Fellowship allows her to continue and expand...