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. Aaron Johnson’s Lab on their recent publication! A pathogenic mechanism associated with myopathies and structural birth defects involves TPM2-directed myogenesis. McAdow J, Yang S, Ou T, Huang G, Dobbs MB, Gurnett CA, Greenberg MJ, Johnson AN. JCI Insight. 2022 Jun 22;7(12):e152466.
Congratulations to Dr. David Ornitz’s Lab on their recent publication! Fibroblast growth factor-9 expression in airway epithelial cells amplifies the type I interferon response and alters influenza A virus pathogenesis. Hiller BE, Yin Y, Perng YC, de Araujo Castro Í, Fox LE, Locke MC, Monte KJ, López CB, Ornitz DM, Lenschow DJ. PLoS Pathog. 2022 […]
Congratulations to Dr. Andrew Yoo’s Lab on their recent publication! Recapitulation of endogenous 4R tau expression and formation of insoluble tau in directly reprogrammed human neurons. Capano LS, Sato C, Ficulle E, Yu A, Horie K, Kwon JS, Burbach KF, Barthélemy NR, Fox SG, Karch CM, Bateman RJ, Houlden H, Morimoto RI, Holtzman DM, Duff […]
Congratulations to Dr. Nerbonne’s Lab on their recent publication! Integrated multiomic characterization of congenital heart disease. Hill MC, Kadow ZA, Long H, Morikawa Y, Martin TJ, Birks EJ, Campbell KS, Nerbonne J, Lavine K, Wadhwa L, Wang J, Turaga D, Adachi I, Martin JF. Nature. 2022 Jun 22.