Author Archives: Jonathon Cornett

Office of Graduate Education issues community standards document, explaining expectations for the research training environment, expectations of basic science research advisors and faculty expectations of BBSP-affiliated students.

NIH released NOT-OD-21-073 in March 2021 announcing revised guidelines for the NIH Biosketch and Other Support document for any submission with a due date on or after May 25th, 2021.

Dr. Martin Ferris Promoted to Associate Professor in the Department of Genetics.

Department of Genetics faculty, postdocs, students and collaborators published ten papers during March 7-20, 2021.

Highlights, service awards, personal reflections on the past year, covid vaccination updates, performance review process.

Avani Saraswatula, an undergraduate student in the laboratory of Dr. Fernando Pardo Manuel de Villena, together with fellow Biomedical Engineering students Maddie Smith and Anne Hope Cooper created POPSolutions, a group with a goal to provide a better, non-surgical solution to pelvic organ prolapse.

Dr. Keriayn Smith (Assistant Professor, Genetics) serves as the Board Chair for the Society for Scientific Advancement (SOSA),currently celebrating its ten-year anniversary. 

Department of Genetics faculty, postdocs, students and collaborators published twelve papers during February 21 – March 6, 2021.

The laboratory of Dr. Shawn Ahmed (Professor, Genetics and Biology) has published two papers in Nature journals in the past month.

The courses will teach new concepts, broaden perspectives and provide the campus community with a common set of terms.