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Read about what our GCDB graduate students’ achievements and activities.
Read about what our GCDB graduate students’ achievements and activities.
Congratulations to Dorian Dale for receiving a John R. and Wendy L. Kindig Fellowship. The Kindigs donated this gift to the IU College of Arts and Sciences to support rising third-year students in the Departments of Biology, Biochemistry and Chemistry. Dorian is pursuing a double graduate major (GCDB and the Program in Neuroscience) and his thesis research is performed in the lab of Dan Tracey. Congrats again Dorian!
Erica Nadolski, her thesis advisor - Armin Moczek and postdoctoral fellow - Phil Davison, recently co-authored a review article entitled “Gene regulatory networks underlying the development and evolution of plasticity in horned beetles.” The review provides an excellent overview of developmental mechanisms that facilitate conditional development in horned beetles and provides an in-depth look at how chromatin remodeling and transcription factors may play an important role in these gene regulatory developments. Congrats Erica!
Congratulations to Hunter Herriage who co-authored the manuscript “Premature endocycling of Drosophila follicle cells causes pleiotropic defects in oogenesis” with his advisor, Brian Calvi. Hunter’s article appears in this month’s issue of Genetics. Check it out to learn what Hunter has been doing for his thesis research and to learn about how unscheduled endocycling of cells can disrupt tissue growth and function to negatively impact development.
Congratulations to Ananya Mahapatra who serves as first author on a manuscript entitled “ADAR-mediated regulation of PQM-1 expression in neurons impacts gene expression throughout C. elegans and regulates survival from hypoxia”, which was recently published in PLOS Biology. Ananya is a fifth-year student in the Hundley lab and has previously contributed to a review article during her time in the GCDB graduate program.
Congratulations to Haley Brown for her recently published article entitled “Polycomb safeguards imaginal disc specification through control of the Vestigial-Scalloped complex”. Haley is a sixth-year graduate student in the lab of Justin Kumar. This exciting work on the epigenetic control of eye fate was highlighted by the journal and uses a cutting-edge high-throughput sequencing method – CUT & RUN, for which the Kumar lab published a STARS protocol method paper earlier last year and which Haley was second author!
Congratulations to Qin Liao for receiving an IU College of Arts and Sciences Dissertation Research Fellowship. Qin is a fifth-year student in the Wang lab and has already contributed to four publications on bacterial chromosome structure and dynamics!
Congratulations to Hunter Herriage and Yi-Ting Huang for their recently published review article entitled, “The antagonistic relationship between apoptosis and polyploidy in development and cancer.” Hunter and Yi-Ting are fourth-year graduate students in the lab of Brian Calvi and collaborated on this article in Seminars in Cell and Developmental Biology.
Congratulations to Ahmed Ghobashi who serves as first author on a manuscript entitled “Activation of AKT induces EZH2-mediated b-catenin trimethylation in colorectal cancer,” which was recently published in iScience. Ahmed is a sixth-year student in the O’Hagan lab and has previously contributed to three other research articles during his time in the GCDB graduate program.
Congratulations to Spencer Gray for receiving an Honorable Mention poster prize at the FASEB Helicases and Nucleic Acid Machines Conference. Spencer is a fifth-year student in the Bochman lab. His thesis research focuses on characterizing the interactions of the helicase Hrq1 with G-quadruplexes in DNA.