Author Archives: Maddie Felton

Congratulations to Emma Hinkle (Jimena Giudice lab), who was awarded an NRSA F31 predoctoral fellowship from the National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases of the National Institutes of Health.  Emma’s project is titled “Alternative splicing regulation and mechanotransduction in skeletal muscle.” Please also see our page on...

Congratulations to Sarah Brotman (Karen Mohlke lab), who was awarded an NRSA F31 predoctoral fellowship from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute of the National Institutes of Health.  Sarah’s project is titled “Analyzing gene expression in adipose tissue to identify candidate genes at cardiometabolic trait GWAS loci.” Please also...

Talia Hatkevich (Jeff Sekelsky lab) published an article titled “A pathway for error-free non-homologous end joining of resected meiotic double-strand breaks” in Nucleic Acids Research (DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkaa1205). Image: Model for error-free repair (click on image to enlarge; see article for details). Please see our page on Publications by GMB Students...

Michelle Potter-Birriel (Bill Marzluff lab) published an article titled “A region of SLBP outside the mRNA processing domain is essential for deposition of histone mRNA into the Drosophila egg” in Journal of Cell Science (DOI: 10.1242/jcs.251728). Image: SLBP (green; DNA in magenta) in Drosophila egg chambers of wild-type (top) and...

Matt Stevenson (Lori O’Brien lab) received an NRSA F31 grant from the National Cancer Institute. The title of Matt’s project is “Elucidating oncogenic mechanisms underlying Wilms tumor using kidney organoids.”   Please see our page on Grants to GMB Students for more.

Kia Perez-Vale (Mark Peifer lab) published a review article titled “Orchestrating morphogenesis: building the body plan by cell shape changes and movements” in Development (DOI:10.1242/dev.191049). Image: A Drosophila embryo during dorsal closure (click to enlarge; see article for details).   Please see Publications by GMB Students page for more.

Matt Niederhuber (Dan McKay lab) published a review article titled “Mechanisms underlying the control of dynamic regulatory element activity and chromatin accessibility during metamorphosis” in Current Opinion in Insect Science (DOI: 10.1016/j.cois.2020.08.007). Image: RNA-seq time course in Drosophila wings spanning from late-larval to adult stages. (see article for details; click...

Patrick Havlik (Aravind Asokan lab) published a paper titled “Coevolution of adeno-associated virus capsid antigenicity and tropism through a structure-guided approach” in Journal of Virology (DOI:10.1128/JVI.00976-20). Image: Anti-AAV8 antibody virus complexes.; click to enlarge; see article for details).   Please see Publications by GMB Students page for more.

Kaitlin Koreski (Bob Duronio lab) published a paper titled “Drosophila histone locus body assembly and function involves multiple interactions” in Molecular Biology of the Cell (DOI:10.1091/mbc.E20-03-0176). Image: FLASH and GAF in polytene chromosomes with a 12x histone array transgene; click to enlarge; see article for details).   Please see Publications...

Nicole Arruda (Jill Dowen lab) published a paper titled “Distinct and overlapping roles of STAG1 and STAG2 in cohesin localization and gene expression in embryonic stem cells” in Epigenetics and Chromatin (DOI:10.1186/s13072-020-00353-9). GMB student Megan Justice is a co-author. Image: Heatmaps of expression changes in Stag1 and Stag2 mutant cells...

Amanda Raimer (Greg Matera lab) published an article titled “Temperature-sensitive spinal muscular atrophy-causing point mutations lead to SMN instability, locomotor defects and premature lethality in Drosophila” in Disease Models and Mechanisms. (DOI: 10.1242/dmm.04330)  Image: Temperature-sensitive protein stability in SMN Tudor domain mutants. Please see our page on Publications by GMB...

Rachel Cherney (Mauro Calabrese lab) received an NRSA F31 grant from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development. The title of Rachel’s project is “Regulation of Polycomb by long noncoding RNAs during pre-implantation development.”   Please see our page on Grants to GMB Students for...