News
Departmental PhDs 2018/19
In the 2018/19 academic year, 18 students (!) earned a PhD in Molecular Genetics or while working in a lab in the Department of Molecular Genetics. Together, those students have so far contributed…
Ruben Petreaca appointed to OSU Comprehensive Cancer Center
Congratulations to Dr. Ruben Petreaca, who was recently appointed to membership in the Comprehensive Cancer Center at the James. Dr. Petreaca's research focuses on the role of chromatin structure…
Graduate Fellowships to students in Molecular Genetics
The department would like to recognize the following graduate students who were supported by new fellowship support in the past year:
Zhongxia Yi (Molecular Genetics student, Singh Lab):…
Jian-qiu Wu receives Sanford Goldston Award
On July 25th, at their 28th annual Star Award event, Ohio Cancer Research (OCR) conferred the Sanford Goldston Memorial Research Award on Jian-qiu Wu. Ohio Cancer Research is an independent,…
Congratulations to Anna Dobritsa
We are delighted to announce that Dr. Anna Dobritsa has been promoted to the position of Associate Professor with tenure. Dr. Dobritsa's laboratory studies the formation of complex extracellular…
NIH funding to Herman Lab
Congratulations to Paul Herman, who was awarded a four-year NIH grant entitled "An analysis of the regulation and functions of a novel family of membraneless organelles in eukaryotic cells".This…
Molecular Genetics Fellowships and Scholarships awarded
We are delighted to congratulate the recipiants of the following Molecular Genetics Fellowships and Scholarships:
Herta Camerer Gross Summer postdoctoral fellowship:
Dr…
A record number of graduate degrees for Molecular Genetics
The Department would like to congratulate all of the students who earned graduate degrees in Molecular Genetics labs this Spring. To the best of our knowledge, we set a new record this year, with…
Amacher lab highlights muscle precursors on the move!
Congratulations to the Sharon Amacher lab, whose recent article in Development was highlighted on the journal cover. Led by postdoctoral fellow Jared Talbot they tracked the long-distance…