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”.
Dave Butler has received a one-year $50,000 Grant Award
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.”
Andrew Yoo, PhD, received a five-year $9,085,972 multi–PI R01
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.”
Lilianna Solnica-Krezel, PhD, received a five-year $2,285,119 competitive renewal
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 […]