The Wallrath lab members scored big at the Midwest Drosophila Conference! Nathan Mohar (Genetics Graduate Program) was awarded a best oral presentation for his research on SMAD signaling in skeletal muscle disease. Hailey McCoy-Munger (Biomedical Engineering U2G student) was awarded a best poster presentation and first place in the microscopy art competition.
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BMB undergraduate Brenna Powers (Wallrath Lab) received a Best Poster Award at the 2024 Winchell Undergraduate Research Symposium held at St. Mary's University, Winona, MN. The title of her poster was "Identifying candidate drugs to treat rare types of muscular dystrophy". Congratulations Brenna!
Congratulations to Dr. Lori Wallrath for being elected to the Class of 2023 Fellows of the American Association of the Advancement of Science (AAAS)! This honor recognizes Dr. Wallrath for her "distinguished contributions to the fields of heterochromatin function and nuclear envelope biology in development and disease."
Congratulations to Dr. Pamela Geyer on being selected to receive the 2024 JP Long Teaching Award in the Basic Sciences! This award recognizes a basic science faculty member who emulates Dr. Long's devotion to education, teaching, research and service to the University. The award will be presented at the Carver College of Medicine Celebration of Research, Scholarship, Teaching and Service on Monday, April 29th at 3:30pm in the Prem Sahai Auditorium (1110 MERF).
Congratulations to Dr. Maria Spies for her R35 funding from the National Institutes of Health! "Assembly and Dynamics of Molecular Machines in Genome Maintenance" NIH R35 Competitive Renewal
BMB major Brenna Powers (Wallrath laboratory) was awarded a Research Supply Grant from the Office of Undergraduate Studies. Brenna will use the funds to continue testing drugs that improve muscle function in a Drosophila model of LMNA-associated muscular dystrophy. Congratulations Brenna!
Congratulations to our faculty and staff with new publications! Plapp BV (2024) Solvent isotope and mutagenesis studies on the proton relay system in yeast alcohol dehydrogenase 1, Chem.-Biol. Interact. 388, 110853 (11 pp) (on-line, Dec.25, 2023) doi.org/10.1016/j.cbi.2023.110853. Santana JF , Spector BM , Suarez GA, Luse DS, Price DH. (2024) NELF focuses sites of initiation and maintains promoter architecture. Nucleic Acids Res. doi: 10.1093/nar/gkad1253.
Congratulations to Sydney Walker for being selected for an AHA fellowship award! Sydney's project is "Uncoupling the physiological functions of ANGPTL3". Sydney is a graduate student in the Biochemistry and Molecular Biology program. She is advised by Dr. Brandon Davies.
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.
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/...