Ben Hinz, Biomedical Engineering major, was awarded the Iowa Center for Research by Undergraduates' (ICRU) 2022-23 Excellence in Undergraduate Research Award (EURA) for his research in the laboratory of Lori Wallrath. The award provides Ben with a travel scholarship to attend a scientific conference and a 2022-23 Academic Year ICRU Fellowship to continue his research in the Wallrath lab. Congratulations!
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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 Biology Research Associate, Lab: Dr. David Price "Differential dependencies of human RNA polymerase II promoters on TBP, TAF1, TAF4, TFIIB, and XPB" 02/08/2022 Cade Rahlf, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Undergraduate, Lab: Dr. Madeline Shea "Calmodulin Binding to Intrinsically Disordered Domains of Highly Conserved Intracellular Fibroblast Growth Factors" 03/01/2022 Dr. Dustin Bosch, Assistant Professor, Pathology "Competition among Bacteroides species: Ntox15 effectors and immunity proteins" 03/08/2022 Divya Bhat, Cancer Biology Graduate Student, Mentor: Dr. Maria Spies "RAD52 inhibition as a new...
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 first author paper on these findings in the International Journal of Molecular Sciences.
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 parents, John and Elsie Mae Ferentz. Mr. Ferentz’s goal is to provide support and encouragement to undergraduate students who conduct research under the guidance of a tenured or tenure track faculty in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. Congratulations!
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 derived cardiomyocytes revealed loss of redox homeostasis" at the 2021 SfRBM Annual Conference. Jose and co-authors identified biological pathways that contribute to poor health of muscles caused by mutations in the LMNA gene, which encodes nuclear envelope proteins called lamins. Jose will receive free registration at next year's conference and a cash award.
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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 Conference. Congratulations!
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 named in honor of Lois Bigger Gehring, an extremely talented biochemist and graduate of the University of Iowa. Lois is a native of Mt. Vernon, Iowa. She attended Cornell College and majored in biology and chemistry. Lois earned her M.S. in bacteriology from the University of Iowa in 1949 and a PhD in biochemistry from Cambridge University in 1952. Her scientific achievements include a Fullbright Scholarship, a Public Health Service Pre-Doctoral Fellowship, a Carlisle Fellowship, and an Ernst Post-Doctoral Fellowship. Congratulations!