Author Archives: Maddie Felton

Bailey Peck (Praveen Sethupathy lab) is co-first author on an article titled “microRNA-29 fine-tunes the expression of key FOXA2-activated lipid metabolism genes and is dysregulated in animal models of insulin resistance and diabetes” published in Diabetes (published online ahead of print, April 2014). (Image: Schematic of the FOXA2:miR-29 regulatory circuit...

Dr. Bob Duronio, Professor of Biology and Director of the Curriculum in Genetics and Molecular Biology from 2003 until 2012, was inducted into the Frank Porter Graham Honor Society, in recognition of his outstanding contributions to graduate education.

Congratulations to Casey Schmidt (Greg Matera lab), who was awarded a Graduate Research Fellowship from the National Science Foundation.  Casey’s project is titled, “Analyzing transcriptome changes in response to the loss of transcriptional regulators.” Please also see our page on Grants to GMB Students.

Congratulations to Kristi Schaefer (Mark Peifer lab), who was awarded a Graduate Research Fellowship from the National Science Foundation. Kristi’s project is titled, “Defining how the destruction complex is regulated and transfers beta-catenin to the E3 Ligase.” Please also see our page on Grants to GMB Students.

Jennifer Kulzer(Karen Mohlke lab) published a paper titled “A common functional regulatory variant at a type 2 diabetes locus upregulates ARAP1 expression in the pancreatic beta cell” in American Journal of Human Genetics (v. 94, pp 186-197). (Image: Association of SNPs with fasting proinsulin levels; see article for details.) Please...

Christian Parobek (Jon Juliano lab) published a paper titled “A multilocus microsatellite genotyping array to investigate the genetic epidemiology of Pneumocystis jirovecii” in Journal of Clinical Microbiology (published ahead of print Feb 12). (Image: Potential mutational paths from haplotypes from Uganda, Spain, and San Francisco.) Please see our page on...

Kate Hacker (Kim Rathmell lab) is co-first author on a paper titled “Variation in chromatin accessibility in human kidney cancer links H3K36 methyltransferase loss with widespread RNA processing defects” in Genome Research (v. 24, pp 241-250). (Image: H3K36me3 staining in clear cell renal carcinoma – normal kidney pairs; see article...

Jeffrey Damrauer (Billy Kim lab) published a paper titled “Intrinsic subtypes of high-grade bladder cancer reflect the hallmarks of breast cancer biology” in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA (v. 111, pp 3110-3115). (Image: proposed model of urothelial tumorigenesis; see article for details.)

Congratulations to Mike Meers (Greg Matera lab), who was awarded an NRSA F31 predoctoral fellowship from the National Cancer Institute of the National Institutes of Health.  His project is titled “Studying the role of H3K36 methylation in development and gene expression”.

Congratulations to Kathryn Kohl (PhD 2013, Jeff Sekelsky lab) who was named runner up for the Larry Sandler Award. This award is given annually by the Genetics Society of America for the most outstanding dissertation in any area of Drosophila research.  This year there were 23 nominations from around the...

Congratulations to Tikvah Hayes (Channing Der lab), who was awarded an NRSA F31 predoctoral fellowship from the National Institutes of Health.  Tiki’s project is titled “Targeting K-RAS Effector Signaling for Pancreatic Cancer Treatment.”

Marta Charpentier (Frank Conlon lab) and Laura Tollini (Yanping Zhang lab) were awarded the 2013 Sarah Graham Kenan-Edwards Hobgood Award.  This honor is awarded each year to one or two outstanding students in the Curriculum in Genetics and Molecular Biology.