Four CBP PhD Curriculum students received this year’s Cellular Systems and Integrative Physiology (CSIP) T32 (NIH/NIGMS) Training Awards.
The mission of the CSIP T32 Training Program is to develop a robust pool of responsible, rigorous scientists who have the skills to investigate the integrative, regulatory, and developmental physiology of higher organisms and their organ systems by elucidating the functional cellular components of these processes and furthermore, can transition these skills into a wide variety of careers in the biomedical workforce and overall society.
This year the Cell Biology and Physiology CSIP Review Committee received sixteen highly competitive applications for four available slots. Congratulations to the below recipients of this year’s CSIP T32 (NIH/NIGMS) Training Awards!
2025 CSIP T32 (NIH/NIGMS) Training Grant Award Recipients
Kavya Balasubramanian
Mentor: Shahzad Khan
Research: Investigating how intraflagellar transport complex dysfunction causes primary cilium elongation and G protein-coupled receptor accumulation in Alzheimer’s disease
Mady Chlebowski
Mentors: Celia Shiau & Jiakun Chen
Research: Leveraging a larval zebrafish model system to characterize the cell-cell interactions and vesicle trafficking dynamics underpinning progressive peripheral neuron degeneration
Katie Holmes
Mentor: Katie Baldwin
Research: Investigating the morphological and molecular development of the brain’s white matter astrocytes throughout postnatal mouse development, using a combination of novel viral tools, sophisticated microscopy, and spatial proteomics
Annalee Schmidt
Mentor: Rob Dowen
Research: Exploring the mechanisms by which consumption of Kombucha-associated microbes reshapes host metabolic pathways to increase longevity