Congratulations to Grace Ciampa for being awarded an NIH F31 fellowship! Grace's project is "Examining the Function of a Novel Protein in the Cardiac Junctional Membrane Complex". Grace is a graduate student in the Biochemistry and Molecular Biology program. She is advised by Dr. Long-Sheng Song.
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Dr. Sarah Bergeron, Assistant Professor of Chemistry at Nicholls State University, was named the Louisiana Science Teachers Association William Craig Outstanding University Education Award winner for 2023. The Louisiana Science Teachers Association instituted the William Craig Outstanding University Educator Award in memory of the late Dr. William W. Craig, a distinguished Geology Professor at the University of New Orleans. Dr. Craig’s legacy as a research scientist deeply influenced K-12 educators, making a lasting impact on the field of education. The award serves as a testament to the outstanding university faculty members who, like Dr. Craig, have significantly contributed to the development and advancement of K-12 educators. Dr. Bergeron's advisor was Peter Rubenstein. Read more about Dr. Bergeron and the activities that led to this award at https://houmatimes.com/news/nicholls/...
Congratulations to our labs with new publications! Lavering ED , Gandhamaneni M , Weeks DL . (2023) Intrinsically disordered regions are not sufficient to direct the compartmental localization of nucleolar proteins in the nucleus.(Accepted PLOS Biology 10/12/2023) Gall-Duncan T, Luo J, Jurkovic CM, Fischer LA, Fujita K, Deshmukh AL, Harding RJ, Tran S, Mehkary M, Li V, Leib DE, Chen R, Tanaka H, Mason AG, Lévesque D, Khan M, Razzaghi M , PrasolavaT, Lanni S, Sato N, Caron MC, Panigrahi GB, Wang P, Lau R, López Castel A, Masson JY, Tippett L, Turner C, Spies M , La Spada AR, Campos EI, Curtis MA, Boisvert FM, Faull RLM, Davidson BL, Nakamori M, Okazawa H, Wold MS , Pearson CE. (2023) Antagonistic roles of canonical and Alternative-RPA in disease-associated tandem CAG repeat instability. Cell , 186 (22):4898-4919.e25. ISSN 0092-8674. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2023.09.008
Nathan Mohar (Wallrath Lab) won 2nd place oral presentation at the Interdisciplinary Graduate Program in Genetics retreat on September 29, 2023. The title of Nathan's presentation was "DNA sequence variation in SMAD7 enhances LMNA-associated skeletal muscle disease severity and implicates TGFβ signaling as a therapeutic target. Congratulations Nathan!
Graduate student Logan Dawson is named first-author on a new publication by the DeMali lab in Current Opinion in Cell Biology . Congratulations Logan! "Mechanotransduction: Forcing a change in metabolism" Dawson LW, Cronin NM, DeMali KA https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ceb.2023.102219
Congratulations to the Pufall lab for their new 3-year grant from the National Science Foundation! "The effect of transcription factor binding on UV lesion accumulations"
Lori Wallrath, Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, was awarded a three-year grant from the Muscular Dystrophy Association to study genetic modifiers of LMNA-associated muscular dystrophy. Congratulations!
Lori Wallrath (BMB) was appointed as the new Director of the Interdisciplinary Graduate Program in Genetics and Bryan Phillips (Biology) was appointed as the new Associate Director. Together, they will build upon the strong program that Daniel Eberl (Biology) has directed since 2008. Congratulations to you both!
Congratulations to Drs. Sheila Baker, Brandon Davies, Kris DeMali and Ernesto Fuentes for being selected for Iowa MADE Grants! Iowa MADE, Iowa M edical A dvances, D iscoveries, and E xplorations, Grants are possible due to the generosity of the Walder Charitable Foundation.
Congratulations to the recipients of the best poster awards at the 2023 75th Anniversary and Scientific Retreat! Undergraduate: Katie Piaszynski (Geyer lab) Research Intern: Isa Perales (Geyer lab) Graduate Student: Rebecca Splitt (DeMali lab) and Nathan Mohar (Wallrath lab) Postdoc: Kelli Davie, PhD (Davies lab)