Department News

Congratulations to Dr. Kristen Kroll! Dr. Kristen Kroll’s research was recently published in the Associated Press. To read the full article, click here Click here to listen to Dr. Kroll’s radio interview with 3AW Breakfast with Ross and Russel in Melbourne, AU. The interview starts at about 1:07.

Congratulations to Victoria Church! Victoria Church, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Research Scholar in Andrew Yoo’s Lab, was granted the Early Career Investigators Innovation Award from the William N. and Bernice E. Bumpus Foundation.

Congratulations to Luci Capano! Luci Capano, Graduate Student in Dr. Andrew Yoo’s Lab, has been selected as one of the winners of the 30th Anniversary Tau Leadership Awards. This honor comes with a $10,000 award (for technology; books; or travel and registration for courses or scientific conferences related to continued scientific discovery in tauopathy research) […]

Congratulations to Dr. Mayssa Mokalled! Mayssa Mokalled has just received the 2022 Junior Faculty Award of Excellence from the Zebrafish Disease Models Society at the virtual ZDM14 conference. 

Assistant Professor of Developmental Biology, Washington University in St. Louis, School of Medicine The Department of Developmental Biology at Washington University School of Medicine invites applications at the level of assistant professor on the tenure track.  We are seeking outstanding colleagues with an interest in any area of developmental biology, including the genetic and epigenetic […]

Congratulations to Dr. Kerry Kornfeld! Kerry Kornfeld, MD, PhD, Professor of Developmental Biology, has received a one-year, $205,000 grant award from the National Institutes of Health, National Institute of Aging, starting September 30, 2021 for his project entitled “Control of reproductive aging by germline stem cells”.

Congratulations to Dr. Geoffrey Goodhill! Geoffrey J Goodhill, Ph.D., Professor of Developmental Biology, has received a two-year, $674,000 grant award from the National Institutes of Health, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, starting September 1, 2021 for his project entitled “ Revealing neural circuits underlying zebrafish behavior using mesoscopic light field microscopy

Congratulations to Dr. Andrew Yoo! Dr. Andrew Yoo, Associate Professor of Developmental Biology, has been selected to serve as a member of the Molecular Neurogenetics Study Section, Center for Scientific Review starting August 2 and ending on June 30, 2025. Members for this committee are selected on the basis of their demonstrated competence and achievement […]

Congratulations to Dr. Bo Zhang! Bo Zhang, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Developmental Biology, has received a five-year, $1,890,000 R35 Maximizing Investigator’s Research Award (MIRA) for Early Stage Investigators from the National Institutes of Health, National Institute of General Medical Sciences, beginning August 1, 2021, for his project entitled Transcriptional regulation of domesticated transposable elements-derived promoters […]

Congratulations to Dr. Andrew Yoo! Andrew Yoo, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Developmental Biology has received a one-year $75,000 grant award from Hereditary Disease Foundation starting 8/1/2021 for his project entitled “Modifying resilience to neurodegeneration in Huntington’s disease patient-derived neurons”.