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Congratulations to Dr. Andrew Yoo! Andrew Yoo, Ph.D., Professor of Developmental Biology, has been honored with the Hereditary Disease Foundation (HDF) Transformative Research Award.This prestigious award includes support of $1.1 million over two years which he is sharing with another PI at Columbia University. 

Congratulations to Mayssa Mokalled, PhD., Associate Professor in the Department of Developmental Biology and her lab on their research. From the article publish by the Washington University School of Medicine: “A new study from Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis maps out a detailed atlas of all the cells involved — and how […]

Congratulations to Dr. Mokalled’s Lab on their recent publication! Single-cell analysis of innate spinal cord regeneration identifies intersecting modes of neuronal repair. Saraswathy VM, Zhou L, Mokalled MH. Nat Commun. 2024 Aug 15;15(1):6808. doi: 10.1038/s41467-024-50628-y.PMID: 39147780

Congratulations to Joowon Um! Joowon Um,  Graduate Research Assistant  in Dr. Elizabeth Pollina’s Lab, have been named as a Dean’s Distinguished Graduate Fellow (DDGF)

Congratulations to Dr. Covey’s Lab on their recent publication! Neurosteroids mediate and modulate the effects of pro-inflammatory stimulation and toll-like receptors on hippocampal plasticity and learning. Izumi Y, O’Dell KA, Cashikar AG, Paul SM, Covey DF, Mennerick SJ, Zorumski CF. PLoS One. 2024 Jun 14;19(6):e0304481. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0304481. eCollection 2024.PMID: 38875235 

Congratulations to Dr. Morris’s Lab on their recent publication! Single-cell lineage capture across genomic modalities with CellTag-multi reveals fate-specific gene regulatory changes. Jindal K, Adil MT, Yamaguchi N, Yang X, Wang HC, Kamimoto K, Rivera-Gonzalez GC, Morris SA. Nat Biotechnol. 2024 Jun;42(6):946-959. doi: 10.1038/s41587-023-01931-4. Epub 2023 Sep 25.PMID: 37749269