Author Archives: Maddie Felton

Spencer Nystrom (Dan McKay lab) published an article titled “Memes: A motif analysis environment in R using tools from the MEME Suite” in PLOS Computational Biology (DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1008991). Image: Representative plots generated by Memes. (see article for details; click to enlarge). Please see our page on Publications by GMB Students for...

Congratulations to Marta Cruz Cisneros (Mark Heise lab) on being awarded Graduate Diversity Enrichment Program grant from Burroughs Wellcome Fund. The GDEP is a two-year grant to underrepresented minority PhD students enrolled in NC Institutions of Higher Education. Please also see our page on Grants to GMB Students.

Congratulations to Elyssa Vogt (Amy Gladfelter lab) on being awarded Graduate Diversity Enrichment Program grant from Burroughs Wellcome Fund. The GDEP is a two-year grant to underrepresented minority PhD students enrolled in NC Institutions of Higher Education. Please also see our page on Grants to GMB Students.

Black in Genetics holds their BIG Week Oct 4-10 (please click on the image for list of activities). BIG is an organization dedicated to amplifying voices and work by Black-identifying geneticists. See the Twitter hashtag  #BlackInGenetics and the BlackinGenetics account for more.

Congratulations to Brea Hampton (Mark Heise and Marty Ferris), who was awarded an F99/K00 transition fellowship from the National Institute on Aging. This award supports the transition to the postdoctoral phase by providing funding for the final 1-2 years of graduate studies (F99 phase) and the first two years of postdoctoral...

Congratulations to Carolyn Turcotte (Jeff Sekelsky lab), who was awarded an NRSA F31 predoctoral fellowship from the National Institute on Aging of the National Institutes of Health.  Carolyn’s project is titled “Mechanisms and regulation of meiotic recombination.”   Please also see our page on Grants to GMB Students.

Nila Pazhayam and Carolyn Turcotte (Jeff Sekelsky lab) published a review of genome-wide meiotic crossover patterning processes in Fronteirs in Cell and Developmental Biology (DOI: 10.3389/fcell.2021.681123).  Image: Suppression of crossovers in peri-centromeric regions (click to enlarge; see article for details). Please see our page on Publications by GMB Students for more.

Kandace Thomas (Michael Bressan lab) published a paper titled “Adherens junction engagement regulates functional patterning of the cardiac pacemaker cell lineage” in Developmental Cell (DOI: 10.1016/j.devcel.2021.04.004). Image: Graphical abstract summarizing key discoveries (see article for details; click to enlarge). Please see our page on Publications by GMB Students for more.  

Hannah Wiedner (Jimena Giudice lab) published a review titled “It’s not just a phase: function and characteristics of RNA-binding proteins in phase separation” in Nature Structural and Molecular Biology (DOI: 10.1038/s41594-021-00601-w). Image: Cellular condensates and their proposed functions (see article for details; click to enlarge). Please see our page on...

Emma Hinkle (Jimena Giudice lab), wrote a guest post for the Genes to Genomes blog of the Genetics Society of America, titled Three ways that the field genetics can be more equitable. She discusses this through the topics of genetics education, genetics research, and representation within the field.  

Natalie Rittenhouse (Jill Dowen lab) published a paper titled “Functional impact of cancer-associated cohesin variants on gene expression and cellular identity” in Genetics (DOI: 10.1093/genetics/iyab025). Image: Summary of the impact of Cohesin variants on transcriptional insulation (see article for details; click to enlarge). Please see our page on Publications by GMB...

Juan Carvajal Garcia (Dale Ramsden lab and Jeff Sekelsky lab) published an article titled “DNA polymerase theta suppresses mitotic crossing over” in PLOS Genetics (DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1009267).  Image: Disrupted abdominal patterning and cell death in mutants lacking Slx4 (Mus312) and PolQ; see article for details. Please see our page on Publications...