Author Archives: Maddie Felton

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.

Congratulations to Joy Meserve (Bob Duronio lab), who was awarded an NRSA F31 predoctoral fellowship from the National Institutes of Health.

Congratulations to Esteban Terzo (Bob Duronio lab), who was awarded an NRSA F31 predoctoral fellowship from the National Institutes of Health.

Congratulations to Marta Charpentier (lab of Frank Conlon), first author of a publication in Developmental Cell, titled “CASZ1 promotes vascular assembly and morphogenesis through the direct regulation of an EGFL7/RhoA-mediated pathway.”  Marta’s work was featured as the cover image.

Congratulations to Nick Gomez (lab of Ian Davis), recipient of a 2013 American Association of Cancer Research Minority Scholar in Cancer Research Award for participation in the AACR Special Conference on Chromatin and Epigenetics in Cancer.

Congratulations to Kelsey Gray (Greg Matera lab), who was awarded a Graduate Research Fellowship from the National Science Foundation.

Congratulations to Marta Charpentier (Frank Conlon lab), who was awarded a Dissertation Completion Fellowship from the UNC Graduate School for 2013-2014.

Congratulations to Danielle Rogers (labs ofJeff Sekelsky and Dorothy Erie), who was awarded a Graduate Research Fellowship from the National Science Foundation. Danielle’s project is Crossover formation in Drosophila: Elucidating the Structural Role of Meiotic Resolvases.”

Congratulations to Kate Coleman (Jean Cook lab), who was awarded an NRSA F31 predoctoral fellowship from the National Institutes of Health.

Congratulations to Kathryn Kohl (Jeff Sekelsky lab) for winning the Harold M. Weintraub Graduate Student Award, which recognizes outstanding achievement during graduate studies in the biological sciences. Recipients of this prestigious national award participate in a scientific symposium to be held this spring at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center...

The Curriculum in Genetics and Molecular Biology is listed on a site at the National Institute of General Medical Sciences for “NIGMS-Funded NRSA Training Programs with Notable Records of Diversity Recruitment and Retention“.

Congratulations to Kathryn Kohl for the recent publication of their paper in Science entitled “Evolution of an MCM Complex in Flies That Promotes Meiotic Crossovers by Blocking BLM Helicase”.