Congratulations to Jeffrey I. Gordon, MD, former Chair of the Department of Developmental Biology! Dr. Gordon has won the 2023 Princess of Asturias Award for Technical and Scientific Research. Gordon is being honored for spearheading the discovery and understanding of the human microbiome, the vast collection of microbes that live in and on the body […]
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Dr. Tony Tsai has been named a 2023 Pew Scholar
Congratulations to Dr. Tony Tsai! Tony Tsai, M.D., Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Developmental Biology, has been named a 2023 Pew Scholar in the Biomedical Sciences. Click here to see the 2023 Class of Pew Scholars
Dr. Stacey Rentschler’s New Publication
Congratulations to Dr. Stacey Rentschler’s Lab on their recent publication! Guidelines for assessment of cardiac electrophysiology and arrhythmias in small animals. Ripplinger CM, Glukhov AV, Kay MW, Boukens BJ, Chiamvimonvat N, Delisle BP, Fabritz L, Hund TJ, Knollmann BC, Li N, Murray KT, Poelzing S, Quinn TA, Remme CA, Rentschler SL, Rose RA, Posnack NG. […]
Brian Lananna has received a three-year Postdoctoral Fellowship Award
Congratulations to Brian Lananna, Postdoctoral Research Scholar in Dr. Shin Imai’s Lab! Brian Lananna, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Research Scholar, has received a three-year $215,478 Postdoctoral Fellowship Award from the NIH/NIA beginning January 1, 2023 for his project entitled “Investigating a role for eNAMPT-containing extracellular vesicles in mitigating age-and Alzheimer Disease-related cognitive decline”.
Dr. Helen McNeill has received a five-year grant award
Congratulations to Dr. Helen McNeill! Dr. Helen McNeill, Ph.D., Professor of Developmental Biology, has received a five-year $2,840,254 grant award from the NIH/Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health & Human Development beginning December 15, 2022 for her project entitled “Dissecting the function of Nemp1, a nuclear envelope protein critical for mammalian fertility”.
Dr. Mayssa Mokalled’s New Publication
Congratulations to Dr. Mayssa Mokalled’s Lab on their recent publication! Myostatin is a negative regulator of adult neurogenesis after spinal cord injury in zebrafish. Muraleedharan Saraswathy V*, Zhou L*, Burris B, Dogra D, Reischauer S and Mokalled MH.Cell Reports. 2022. 41(8):111705. PMID:36417881.
Dr. Kroll’s New Publications
Congratulations to Dr. Kristen Kroll’s Lab on their recent publications! Regulation of human cortical interneuron development by the chromatin remodeling protein CHD2. Lewis EMA, Chapman G, Kaushik K, Determan J, Antony I, Meganathan K, Narasimhan M, Gontarz P, Zhang B, Kroll KL. Sci Rep. 2022 Sep 17;12(1):15636. doi: 10.1038/s41598-022-19654-y. PMID: 36115870. The H3K27M mutation alters […]
Maddy Ryan was awarded the Viktor Hamburger Award for Best Student Oral Presentation
Congratulations to Maddy Ryan! Maddy Ryan, Postbaccalaureate Researcher in Tony Tsai’s Lab, was awarded the Viktor Hamburger Award for Best Student Oral Presentation for her talk “An adhesion code coordinates precise pattern formation and proper morphogenesis of the zebrafish neural tube.”
Abira Ganguly was awarded the Viktor Hamburger Award for Best Postdoc Oral Presentation
Congratulations to Abira Ganguly! Abira Ganguly, Ph.D., Postdoc Research Associate in Helen McNeill’s Lab, was awarded the Viktor Hamburger Award for Best Postdoc Oral Presentation for her talk “Nemp1 regulates mechanotransduction responses to substrate stiffness by controlling Yap1 and rescues fertility in a mechanically soft ovary model”
Didier Hodzic was awarded the Rita Levi-Montalcini Award for Best Instructor Poster Presentation
Congratulations to Didier Hodzic! Didier Hodzic, Associate Professor in Dr. Helen McNeill’s Lab, was awarded the Rita Levi-Montalcini Award for Best Instructor Poster Presentation for his poster “The inner nuclear membrane protein NEMP1 supports nuclear envelope openings and enucleation of erythroblasts”.