Department News

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”.

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.”

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”

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”.

Congratulations to Dr. Dave Butler! Dave Butler, MD, in Dr. Andrew Yoo’s Lab, received a one-year $50,000 Grant Award through the McDonnell Center for Cellular and Molecular Neurobiology, entitled “Aging-associated mitochondrial dysregulation in response to hypoxic-ischemic brain injury in human neurons.”

Congratulations to Dr. Andrew Yoo! Andrew Yoo, PhD, received a five-year $9,085,972 multi–PI R01 (Cruchaga-contact, Frost, Karch, Wang, Yoo) from the National Institutes of Health National Institute on Aging beginning August 15, 2022, for their project entitled, “Identification and Characterization of Cell-Specific Transposable Elements Implicated on Alzheimer Disease and Healthy Aging.”

Congratulations to Dr. Solnica-Krezel! Lilianna Solnica-Krezel, PhD, received a five-year $2,285,119 competitive renewal from the National Institute of Health’s Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health & Human Development, beginning June 15, 2022, for her project entitled “Forward and reverse genetic studies of AIS and spine development in zebrafish.”  This project is part of […]

Congratulations to Adelita Mendoza! Adelita Mendoza, Ph.D., Postdoc Research Associate in Dr. Kerry Kornfeld’s Lab, received a two-year $200,000 grant from the National Institute of Health, National Institute of General Medical Sciences, beginning August 1, 2022 for her project entitled “Regulation of zinc-dependent lysosome morphological restructuring, zinc trafficking and low zinc homeostasis in C. elegans […]

Congratulations to Dr. Kerry Kornfeld! Kerry Kornfeld, M.D., Ph.D., received a four-year $1,464,024 research grant from the National Institute of Health, National Institute of General Medical Sciences, beginning September 1, 2022, for his project entitled “Lysosome remodeling mediates high zinc homeostasis”.

Congratulations to Dr. Mayssa Mokalled! Mayssa has been chosen to receive The Rising Star Award by the International Society for Regenerative Biology. Her award will be presented at the EMBO Workshop “The molecular and cellular basis for tissue regeneration and repair” September 26-30, Barcelona, Spain.