Congratulations to Dr. Shin Imai! Dr. Shin-ichiro Imai, M.D., Ph.D., Professor of Developmental Biology has received a two-year $300,000 research grant from WUCATR – WashU Center for Autophagy Therapeutics and Research beginning December 1, 2020, for his project entitled “Elucidating the functional connection between NAD+ metabolism and autophagy in metabolism and aging”
Samantha A. Morris, Assistant Professor of Developmental Biology and of Genetics, has received a five-year, $1,500,000, New York Stem Cell Foundation Robertson Stem Cell Investigator Award starting on January 1, 2021, for her project entitled “New single-cell genomic technologies to dissect and enhance cell fate reprogramming”.
Congratulations to he labs of Drs. Johnson, Mokalled and Solnica-Krezel! MYH3-associated distal arthrogryposis zebrafish model is normalized with para-aminoblebbistatin. Whittle J, Antunes L, Harris M, Upshaw Z, Sepich DS, Johnson AN, Mokalled M, Solnica-Krezel L, Dobbs MB, Gurnett CA. EMBO Mol Med. 2020 Oct 5;12(11):e12356.
Congratulations to Dr. Alison Snyder-Warwick’s Lab on their recent publication! Incidence of Nerve Injury After Extremity Trauma in the United States. Padovano WM, Dengler J, Patterson MM, Yee A, Snyder-Warwick AK, Wood MD, Moore AM, Mackinnon SE. Hand (N Y). 2020 Oct 21:1558944720963895.
Congratulations to Dr. Kerry Kornfeld’s Lab on their recent publication! Zinc homeostasis and signaling in the roundworm C. elegans. Earley BJ, Mendoza AD, Tan CH, Kornfeld K. Biochim Biophys Acta Mol Cell Res. 2020 Oct 2;1868(1):118882.
Congratulations to Dr. Aaron DiAntonio’s Lab on their recent publication! SARM1 depletion rescues NMNAT1-dependent photoreceptor cell death and retinal degeneration. Sasaki Y, Kakita H, Kubota S, Sene A, Lee TJ, Ban N, Dong Z, Lin JB, Boye SL, DiAntonio A, Boye SE, Apte RS, Milbrandt J. Elife. 2020 Oct 27;9:e62027.
Congratulations to Dr. Andrew Yoo’s Lab on their recent publication! Burst mitofusin activation reverses neuromuscular dysfunction in murine CMT2A. Franco A, Dang X, Walton EK, Ho JN, Zablocka B, Ly C, Miller TM, Baloh RH, Shy ME, Yoo AS, Dorn GW 2nd. Elife. 2020 Oct 19;9:e61119.
Congratulations to Dr. Doug Covey’s Lab on their recent publications! Membrane organization and intracellular transport of a fluorescent analogue of 27-hydroxycholesterol. Szomek M, Moesgaard L, Reinholdt P, Haarhøj Hald SB, Petersen D, Krishnan K, Covey DF, Kongsted J, Wüstner D. Chem Phys Lipids. 2020 Oct 31;233:105004. A neuroactive steroid with a therapeutically interesting constellation of […]
Congratulations to Dr. David Ornitz’s Lab on their recent publication! The Fgf8 subfamily (Fgf8, Fgf17 and Fgf18) is required for closure of the embryonic ventral body wall. Boylan M, Anderson MJ, Ornitz DM, Lewandoski M. Development. 2020 Oct 19;147(21):dev189506.
Congratulations to Dr. Shin Imai’s Lab on their recent publication! SS-31 and NMN: Two paths to improve metabolism and function in aged hearts. Whitson JA, Bitto A, Zhang H, Sweetwyne MT, Coig R, Bhayana S, Shankland EG, Wang L, Bammler TK, Mills KF, Imai SI, Conley KE, Marcinek DJ, Rabinovitch PS. Aging Cell. 2020 Oct;19(10):e13213.