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NIH funding to Amacher lab!
Congratulations to Sharon Amacher whose lab recently renewed their NIH R01 funding for their project “Developmental regulation of oscillatory gene expression”, through May 2025. This project…

Molecular Genetics departmental members earn awards at RNA meeting
The Rustbelt RNA meeting was held September 10th and 11th 2021, and was attended by many members of the Department. Among those, we would like to highlight the following:
William Marshall (…
NIH funding to Anita Hopper
Congratulations to Anita Hopper, whose NIH grant entitled "tRNA processing and nuclear-cytoplasmic dynamics" has been renewed for an additional four years. The work in the Hopper lab…

NIH funding to Craig Burd
Congratulations to Craig Burd, on the recent funding of his NIH grant entitled "Defining the role of in utero estrogenic endocrine disruption on mammary gland stiffness and breast cancer risk".…

NIH grant to Cole lab
Congratulations to Susan Cole, whose NIH grant entitled "Identification and analysis of chicken DLL3 as a segmentation clock component" was recently funded for two years. The Cole lab is…

Ruben Petreaca Highlighted in Columbus Dispatch and Marion Star!
We are so proud of Ruben Petreaca whose work was recently highlighted in the Columbus Dispatch and the Marion Star! Working together with two colleagues in Chemistry and Biochemistry at the Marion…

Congratulations to Guramrit Singh
We are delighted to announce that Dr. Guramrit Singh has been promoted to the position of Associate Professor with tenure. Dr. Singh's laboratory studies the post-transcriptional fate of mRNAs,…

Amacher awarded President's Research Excellence Accelerator award
Congratulations to Sharon Amacher, who is the Principal Investigator on one of the first round of Accelerator grants from the President's Research Excellence program. Entitled "Accelerating new…

NIH funding to Petreaca Lab
Well deserved congratulations to Dr. Ruben Petreaca, whose NCI grant entitled "The role of chromatin remodeling factors in DNA double strand break repair" was recently funded. Working with co-…