Date Speaker, Title, Department Workshop Title 01/25/2022 Dr. Pam Geyer, Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology "Disease variants of barrier-to-autointegration Factor alter nuclear structure and genome stability" 02/02/2022 Juan Santana, Biochemistry and Molecular...
Ben Hinz, undergraduate Biomedical Engineering Major, in the laboratory of Lori Wallrath received a "Dare to Discover" award from the Office of the Vice President for Research. Ben discovered how mutations in the LMNA gene cause rare types of muscular dystrophy. He recently published a...
Caridad Noelle Naanep, an undergraduate student in the DeMali laboratory, has received an award from the John and Slsie Mae Ferentz Research Fund for the Fall 2021 semseter. The John and Elsie Mae Ferentz Research Fellowship was established by Mr. Kirk Ferentz as a memorial to his...
Jose Rios-Monterrosa , a Research Distinction Track Medical Student in the laboratory of Lori Wallrath, was awarded a Society for Redox Biology and Medicine (SfRBM) Young Investigator Award for his presentation "Modeling LMNA-associated muscular dystrophy in Drosophila and iPS cell...
Jose Rios-Monterrosa, a fourth-year Medical student performing a Research Distinction Track in the laboratory of Lori Wallrath, received a first-place award for his oral presentation titled "Suppression of muscle dysfunction caused by mutant lamins" at the 2021 virtual Midwest Drosophila...
Congratulations to Nicholas Hammons, Rebecca Splitt, and Grace Ciampa for receiving the Dr. Lois Gehring Graduate Student Scholarship! This scholarship is given to the most meritorious second year Biochemistry graduate students based on academic and research achievements.
The prize is...