Congratulations to Dr. Helen McNeill! “Election as a Fellow honors members whose efforts on behalf of the advancement of science or its applications in service to society have distinguished them among their peers and colleagues.” McNeill, the Larry J. Shapiro and Carol-Ann Uetake-Shapiro Professor in the Department of Developmental Biology at WashU Medicine, is recognized for […]
Congratulations to Dr. Liz Pollina! Pollina honored for innovations in neuroscience MIND Prize funds research into neurodegenerative diseases Elizabeth Pollina, PhD, an assistant professor of developmental biology at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, has received the 2025 MIND Prize from the Pershing Square Foundation. The MIND (Maximizing Innovation in Neuroscience Discovery) Prize […]
Congratulations to Dr. Kroll’s Lab on their recent publication! Lifespan in rodents with MYT1L heterozygous mutation. Schreiber A, Swift RG, Wilson L, Kroll KL, Dougherty JD, Maloney SE. Sci Rep. 2025 Feb 10;15(1):4998. PMID: 39930023
Congratulations to Dr. Theunissen’s Lab on their recent publication! Tracking and mitigating imprint erasure during induction of naive human pluripotency at single-cell resolution. Fischer LA, Meyer B, Reyes M, Zemke JE, Harrison JK, Park KM, Wang T, Jüppner H, Dietmann S, Theunissen TW. Stem Cell Reports. 2025 Feb 8:102419. PMID: 39952244
Congratulations to Dr. Kroll’s Lab on their recent publication! Autism- and intellectual disability-associated MYT1L mutation alters human cortical interneuron differentiation, maturation, and physiology. Prakasam R, Determan J, Chapman G, Narasimhan M, Shen R, Saleh M, Kaushik K, Gontarz P, Meganathan K, Hakim B, Zhang B, Huettner JE, Kroll KL. Stem Cell Reports. 2025 Feb 15:102421. […]
Congratulations to Dr. Covey’s Lab on their recent publication! Phosphorylation of CRYAB induces a condensatopathy to worsen post-myocardial infarction left ventricular remodeling Islam M, Rawnsley DR, Ma X, Navid W, Zhao C, Guan X, Foroughi L, Murphy JT, Navid H, Weinheimer CJ, Kovacs A, Nigro J, Diwan A, Chang RP, Kumari M, Young ME, Razani […]
Congratulations to Dr. Ornitz’ and Dr. McNeill’s Labs on their recent publication! Gastric hypoplasia in mice lacking fibroblast growth factor 9 – PubMed Mills JC, Thanintorn N, Yin Y, McNeill H, Ornitz DM, Willet SG. Dev Dyn. 2025 Mar 1. PMID: 38602479
Congratulations to Dr. DiAntonio’s Lab on their recent publication! SARM1 Inhibition Maintains Axonal Integrity After Rat Sciatic Nerve Transection and Repair Sachar R, Lee TY, DiAntonio A, Dy CJ, Wever J, Milbrandt J, Brogan DM. J Hand Surg Am. 2025 Jan 29:S0363-5023(24)00617-8. PMID: 39895440
Congratulations to Dr. DiAntonio’s Lab on their recent publication! PMP2+ Schwann cells maintain the survival of large-caliber motor axons Kozlowski MM, Strickland A, Morales Benitez A, Schmidt RE, Bloom AJ, Milbrandt J, DiAntonio A. J Neurosci. 2025 Jan 29:e1362242025. PMID: 39880678
Congratulations to Dr. Rentschler’s Lab on their recent publication! RSK1 is an exploitable dependency in myeloproliferative neoplasms and secondary acute myeloid leukemia Kong T, Laranjeira ABA, Letson CT, Yu L, Lin S, Fowles JS, Fisher DAC, Ng S, Yang W, He F, Youn M, Mark K, Jose AS, Liu J, Kim AB, Cox MJ, Fulbright […]