Category: Award

Brea Hampton (co-mentored by Mark Heise and Marty Ferris) was selected to receive a Gilliam Fellowship for Advanced Study from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. The goal of the program is “to increase the diversity among scientists who are prepared to assume leadership roles in science, particularly as college and...

Kelsey Gray (recent graduate of Greg Matera lab) was awarded a Fulbright Fellowship to do education research at Tibetan monasteries in India. After receiving her PhD in Genetics and Molecular Biology in 2017, Kelsey did postdoctoral research with the Emory-Tibet Science Initiative. The Fulbright Fellowship allows her to continue and expand...

Megan Justice (Jill Dowen lab) was selected to participate in the Yale University Ciencia Initiative. Throughout 2019, Megan will participate in a program designed “to expand access to scientific knowledge, experiences, and careers among communities or populations traditionally underrepresented in, or underserved by, the scientific enterprise.”

Lauren Donoghue (Samir Kelada lab) received the Lorraine Flaherty Award for outstanding oral presentation in the Trainee Symposium at the 32nd International Mammalian Genome Conference in Puerto Rico. As winner of that award, Lauren was selected to give her presentation again in the main conference section, where she again was selected...

Talia Hatkevich (Jeff Sekelsky lab) was selected for a DeLill Nasser Award for Professional Development in Genetics from the Genetics Society of America. Talia will use the award to travel to the Drosophila Research Conference where she has been selected to give a talk. Please also see our page on...

Lauren Donoghue (Samir Kelada lab) received the Jo Rae Wright Young Investigator of the Year Award at the FASEB Lung Epithelium in Health and Disease conference. This award is given to one trainee in recognition of outstanding work described in an oral presentation. Lauren’s presentation was entitled “Genetic Analysis of Secreted Airway Mucins...

Michelle Hoffner (Shehzad Sheikh lab) and Dean Nehama (Barbara Savoldo lab) were inducted into the Frank Porter Graham Graduate and Professional Student Honor Society. This award recognizes “outstanding service provided to the University and community by graduate and professional students.” Please also see our page on Awards to GMB Students.

Talia Hatkevich (Jeff Sekelsky lab) was inducted into the Frank Porter Graham Graduate and Professional Student Honor Society. This award recognizes “outstanding service provided to the University and community by graduate and professional students.”  Professors Jeff Sekelsky and Greg Copenhaver were also inducted for “outstanding contributions to the development of...

Congratulations to Mira Pronobis (PhD 2016, Mark Peifer 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 internationally.

Congratulations to Rowan Beck (Praveen Sethupathy and Mirek Styblo labs), who was awarded 1st prize for the Metals Specialty Section Graduate Student Awards for the annual Society of Toxicology meeting. Rowan’s poster was on her research into microRNAs as potential mediators of the effects of arsenicals on pancreatic beta cell function.

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...