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Congratulations to Pooja Gangras
We would like to highlight Pooja Gangras' recent award from the Office of Student Life recognizing her outstanding leadership. Pooja is a graduate student in the Singh lab, but also was the…
NSF funding to Anna Dobritsa
Congratulations to Anna Dobritsa whose three-year grant entitled "Molecular mechanisms of cell polarity and development of distinct plasma membrane domains during formation of pollen apertures"…
ASC Staff Professional Development grants
We are happy to announce that two research staff from the department were awarded funds to support their professional development.
Uyen Tram will use this funding to receive training…
Congratulations to Priscila Rodriguez Garcia!
Priscila Rodriguez Garcia (Ph.D. Candidate in the Mackey Lab) recently attended a the SACNAS (Society for Advancement of Chicanos/Hispanics and Native Americans in Science) conference, and…
NIH funding to Christin Burd
Congratulations to Christin Burd whose four year grant entitled "Impact of senescence on T-cell function and immunotherapeutic response" was recently funded by the National Institutes of Health.…
Molecular genetics graduate student named Yale Ciencia Fellow
We are delighted to note that in February, Marcos Corchado (Ph.D. candidate in the Chamberlin lab attended the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Annual Meeting in…
Undergraduates do great things at the Denman Research Forum
This year’s Denman Undergraduate Research forum was held on February 20th. Several students from the Molecular Genetics major and from Molecular Genetics Departments won awards for their…
Molecular Genetics at Midwest for Society for Developmental Biology Meeting
Congratulations to all the members of the department who participated in the Midwest meeting of the Society for Developmental Biology in September 2018. Susan Cole and Adriana Dawes served as…
NIH Grant to Hay-Oak Park (PI) and P.J. Kang (Co-I).
The Park lab has received an R21 grant (entitled ‘Cell polarity signaling in lifespan control’) from NIH/ National Institute on Aging (NIA). This new grant extends their on-going investigation on…