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Congratulations to MCDB graduate student Daniel Arango who received a Food and Innovation Center Travel Award to attend the Experimental Biology meeting in San Diego, CA 4/12.
Congratulations to MCDB graduate student Daniel Arango who received a Food and Innovation Center Travel Award to attend the Experimental Biology meeting in San Diego, CA 4/12.

MCDB graduate student Hsiao-Yun (Ivy) Huang receives a travel award to the RNA Society meeting.
Congratulations to MCDB graduate student Hsiao-Yun (Ivy) Huang in A. Hopper's lab for receiving a travel award to the RNA Society meeting to be held in Ann Arbor, MI 6/12.

Congratulations to Dave Bisaro who learned that his NSF grant "Viral Chromatin Methylation as a Host Defense Against Geminiviruses" will be renewed for three years!
Congratulations, again to Dave Bisaro, and to Debbie Parris whose collaborative work that crosses the mammalian and plant kingdoms has resulted in a new publication "Characterization of the…

Another NSF award for Grotewold
Congratulations to Erich who received notice that his NSF application "Making the Arabidopsis Biological Resource Center Business Model Possible" will be funded. This grant (PI Grotewold; Co-PI…

Xiao Zhou won the 2nd prize in the Biological Sciences category at the Edward F. Hayes Graduate Research Forum.
Xiao Zhou won the 2nd prize in the Biological Sciences category at the Edward F. Hayes Graduate Research Forum.

Congratulations to Amit Sharma who is first author of a paper that is in press in PLoS Pathogens
Congratulations to Amit Sharma who is first author of a paper that is in press in PLoS Pathogens - Sharma, Yilmaz, Marsh, Cochrane, and Boris-Lawrie "HIV-1 infection modifies the…

Another high profile publication from the Leone lab!!
Ouseph, Li et al., "Atypical E2F Repressors and Activators Coordinate Placental Development” has been accepted for publication in Dev Cell. Co–first author Jing Li was an MG…

Nripesh Dhungel's manuscript was accepted for publication in Genes and Development
Congratulations to Nripesh Dhungel in Anita Hopper's lab whose manuscript "Beyond tRNA cleavage: novel essential function for yeast tRNA splicing endonuclease unrelated to tRNA processing" was…

New SiGue Program to Aid Underrepresented Groups.
SiGue ProgramThis is a new post-BS program for underrepresented groups . The program is part of a new NSF research grant we obtained with Erich Grotewold. The goal of the program is to help…