Tag: Conlon Laboratory

Congratulations to Wei Shi, Ph.D., alumnus postdoctoral fellow, formerly in the Conlon Lab, in collaboration with Mason Sweat, Ph.D., postdoctoral fellow, in the Lab of William Pu, Ph.D. (Boston Children’s Hospital), for submitting preprint, titled “CHD4 Interacts with TBX5 to Maintain the Gene Regulatory Network of Postnatal Atrial Cardiomyocytes” to...

Congratulations to Kayla Mason, Cell Biology and Physiology graduate student, in The Conlon Lab, for recently receiving first place in the poster presentation competition at the 2025 National RNA Society Annual Meeting. Kayla’s winning poster is titled “Post-transcriptional Regulation of Cardiac Sex Differences by DDX3X.

Congratulations to Kayla Mason, Cell Biology and Physiology graduate student, in The Conlon Lab, for recently receiving the 2025 Marzluff RNA Fellowship Award from the UNC RNA Discovery Center. Kayla is the recipient of this fellowship award, a 1-year grant, which provides stipend support for her studies of the role...

Congratulations to James Isaiah (Ike) Emerson, a graduate student and research assistant in the Conlon Lab, and Wei Shi, Ph.D., alumnus postdoctoral fellow, formerly in the Conlon Lab, for publishing article, titled “Sex-specific response to A1BG loss results in female dilated cardiomyopathy”, in the journal Biology of Sex Differences. This...

Congratulations to James Isaiah (Ike) Emerson, a graduate student and research assistant in the Conlon Lab, and Frank L. Conlon, Ph.D., Professor of Biology and Genetics, for being featured on the February 2025, Episode 69, AHA Apple Podcast, Discover CircRes. On the podcast, they discussed their latest work, “X-Chromosome-Linked miRNAs Regulate...

Congratulations to James Isaiah (Ike) Emerson, a graduate student and research assistant in The Conlon Lab, in collaboration with William Marzluff, Ph.D., Kenan Distinguished Professor of Biochemistry and Biophysics; Biology-Joint Appointment (Ph.D.–Duke University), and Ileana M. Cristea, Ph.D., Henry L. Hillman Professor of Molecular Biology; Director of Graduate Studies, Molecular...

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 predoctoral fellowship from AHA. Ms. Grandison’s research explores sex-based differences in cardiovascular disease...

Congratulations to Kayla Mason, graduate student & James Isaiah (Ike) Emerson, graduate student and research assistant, both in the Conlon Lab, for the receipt of 2024 Weinstein Cardiovascular Development and Regeneration Conference Awards in Montreal Canada. Kayla was awarded “Best Oral Presentation”, and Ike received the top-posted prize.

Congratulations to Wei Shi, a postdoctoral fellow in the Conlon Lab, in collaboration with the Lab of Ian Davis, M.D., Ph.D., Chief, Pediatric Hematology-Oncology; G. Denman Hammond Professor of Childhood Cancer, UNC Children’s Research Institute and the Lab of Christine Edry Seidman, M.D., Director, Cardiovascular Genetics Center; Professor, Harvard Medical...

Congratulations to James Isaiah (Ike) Emerson, a graduate student and research assistant in the Conlon Lab, Pablo Ariel, Ph.D., Director, Microscopy Services Laboratory, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Wei Shi, a postdoctoral fellow in the Conlon Lab, and Frank L. Conlon, Ph.D., Professor of Biology and Genetics, for publishing...