Congratulations to the Lab of Jonathan Schisler, MS, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Pharmacology, in collaboration with Afshin Beheshti, Ph.D., Bioinformatician and Principal Investigator, Blue Marble Space Institute of Science/NASA Ames Research Center; Visiting Researcher, Broad Institute; President, COVID-9 International Research Team, for the receipt of space biology research grant, entitled “Spaceflight and Regolith Induced … Read more

Congratulations to Gabrielle M. Gentile, B.Sc., a Genetics and Molecular Biology (GMB) graduate student in the Giudice Lab, for recently receiving a F31 predoctoral fellowship award from NIH’s NHLBI. The fellowship provides ongoing stipend support for her project, titled “Alternative splicing regulation of CLTC in the heart”.

Congratulations to Whitney Edwards, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Cell Biology and Physiology, and Frank L. Conlon, Ph.D., Professor of Biology and Genetics, for publishing article, titled “The Tbx20-TLE interaction is essential for the maintenance of the second heart field”, in the journal Development. The authors generated a mouse model with a two amino acid substitution in … Read more

  Congratulations to Jonathan Schisler, MS, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Pharmacology, in collaboration with Nathaniel J. Moorman, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Microbiology & Immunology, for publishing article, titled “Core mitochondrial genes are down-regulated during SARS-CoV-2 infection of rodent and human hosts”, in the journal Science Translational Medicine. This was an epic effort, but Drs. Schisler … Read more

Congratulations to Karina Kinghorn, a Cell Biology and Physiology (CBP) graduate student, in the Bautch Lab, for publishing new paper, titled “A defined clathrin-mediated trafficking pathway regulates sFLT1/VEGFR1 secretion from endothelial cells”, in Angiogenesis.   The work describes how soluble VEGFR1 is secreted to regulate VEGF signaling. Critical modeling support came from Amy Gill, Ph.D. … Read more

    Congratulations to the Lab of Brian C. Jensen, M.D., Associate Professor of Medicine and Pharmacology, in collaboration with Kelsey Fisher-Wellman, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Physiology, Eastern Carolina University (ECU), and William (Billy) Y. Kim, M.D., Rush S. Dickson Distinguished Professor of Medicine; Professor, Department of Genetics, UNC-Chapel Hill; Urologic Oncology Program; Cancer … Read more

Congratulations to Lucia Grandison, a Ph.D. student, who received a Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree in Philosophy-Neuroscience-Psychology from the Washington University In St. Louis, St. Louis, MO, a member of Dr. Conlon’s Lab, for recently receiving a 2023 Katherine Pryzwansky Young Investigator Award from UNC’s Pathobiology and Translational Science Graduate Program. The Katherine Pryzwansky Young … Read more

Congratulations to Wei Shi, a postdoctoral fellow in the Conlon Lab, and Frank L. Conlon, Ph.D., Professor of Biology and Genetics, in collaboration with the Lab of Christine Edry Seidman, M.D., Director, Cardiovascular Genetics Center; Professor, Harvard Medical School; Cardiovascular Medicine, and Jonathan G. Seidman, Ph.D., Henrietta B. and Frederick H. Bugher Foundation Professor of … Read more

Congratulations to Whitney Edwards, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Cell Biology and Physiology, formerly in the Conlon Lab, and Frank L. Conlon, Ph.D., Professor of Biology and Genetics, in collaboration with the Labs of Sarah Cohen, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Cell Biology and Physiology, and Ileana M. Cristea, Ph.D., Henry L. Hillman Professor of Molecular Biology ROLE; Director … Read more