Author Archives: Maddie Felton

Nicole Tackmann (Yanping Zhang lab) published an article titled “RPL23 links oncogenic RAS signaling to p53-mediated tumor suppression” in Cancer Research (online ahead of print). (Image: Ki-67 staining of skin tumors in mice, showing the effect of Mdm2m/m genotype; see article for details.) Please see our page on Publications by...

Nicole Tackmann (Yanping Zhang lab) has received a Horizon Award fellowship from the Department of Defense for her project titled, “Characterizing the Role of Hep27 in Liver and Colorectal Cancer Stress Tolerance.” Please also see our page on Grants to GMB Students.

Congratulations to Tamara Roman (Karen Mohlke lab), whose was selected as a winner of the Cotterman Award.  This award is given annually by the American Society of Human Genetics, which selects two articles published in the American Journal of Human Genetics in the previous year that best represent outstanding scientific...

Congratulations to Maren Cannon (Karen Mohlke lab), who was selected as a finalist for the Charles J. Epstein Trainee Award for Excellence in Human Genetics Research. The American Society of Human Genetics honors excellence in trainee research through awards that recognize highly competitive abstracts submitted and presented at the ASHG...

David Wyatt (Dale Ramsden lab) published an article titled “Essential roles for polymerase θ-mediated end joining in the repair of chromosome breaks” in Molecular Cell (online ahead of print). (Image: Schematic showing when theta-mediated end joining is important.) Please see our page on Publications by GMB Students for more.

Noelle Romero (Steve Matson lab and Jeff Sekelsky lab) published an article titled “Biochemical activities and genetic functions of the Drosophila melanogaster Fancm helicase in DNA repair” in Genetics (online ahead of print). (Image: Mitotic crossovers in different Fancm mutants.) Please see our page on Publications by GMB Students for...

Steven McDaniel (Brian Strahl lab) published an article titled “Combinatorial histone readout by the dual plant homeodomain (PHD) fingers of Rco1 mediates Rpd3S chromatin recruitment and the maintenance of transcriptional fidelity” in Journal of Biological Chemistry 291: 14796-802. (Image: Model for how the PHD fingers in Rpd3S and Rpd3L engage...

Pedro Pozo (Jean Cook lab) was awarded an F31 fellowship from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences. The title of his project is “Elucidating Cdt1 function using naturally occurring disease-associated mutations.“ Please also see our page on Grants to GMB Students.

Talia Hatkevich (Jeff Sekelsky lab) was awarded an F31 fellowship from the National Institute of Aging. The title of her project is “Preventing Aneuploidy in Aging Oocytes: Investigating the effects and mechanisms of cohesion enrichment in Drosophila melanogaster.“ Please also see our page on Grants to GMB Students.

Congratulations to Lyndsay Wylie (Vicki Bautch lab), who was awarded a grant from the American Heart Association.  Her project is titled “SMAD6 Function in Endothelial Cells.” Please also see our page on Grants to GMB Students.

Jordan Kardos (William Kim lab) published an article titled “Claudin-low bladder tumors are immune infiltrated and actively immune suppressed” in JCI Insight. Image: Box plot of immune suppression gene signature z scores across the Pan-Cancer tumor types. See paper for details.   Please see our page on Publications by GMB...

Li-Chung Tsao (Lishan Su lab) published an article titled “CCR5 interaction with HIV-1 Env contributes to Env-induced depletion of CD4 T cells in vitro and in vivo” in Retrovirology 13: 22. Image: FACS plots of CD4 and CD8 staining live CD3(+) T cells infected with a highly pathogenic HIV-1 isolate....