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Achievements - 2020
December
Rebecca Mellema passed their prelim, titled "
Characterizing the Role of Layilin in Platelet-Hyaluronan Interactions During IBD".
November
Congrats to
Kasha Lim, our former Outreach Officer, who passed her Thesis Defense! She will be starting a post-doc at UNC Chapel Hill!
October
Diane Hernandez was recognized for a
2020 SACNAS Conference Grad Student Exemplary Poster Presentation
in the Life Sciences, Cell/Molecular Biology!
Cindy Barba was an invited speaker at the
Inaugural Diversity and Science Symposium at UCSD
and wonderfully represented the U of U SACNAS community!
Evan Ritzen a
first author publication in
Development.
The publication is titled:
Fgf8
genetic labeling reveals the early specification of vestibular hair cell type in mouse utricle
September
Congrats to
Shubham Kale, who successfully passed his preliminary exam to become a Ph.D candidate!
August
Krystle Osby was selected as Student Representative for HCI Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) Commission!
Jordan Berg was awarded the prestigious National Cancer Institute Predoctoral to Postdoctoral Fellow Transition Award (F99/K00) for his proposal,
"Contextualizing Chaotic Metabolic Networks and Their Regulation."
July
Jesse Velasco was awarded
an
NIH Diversity Supplement!
Jesse's proposal was for his work investigating the role of glycine metabolism in cancer.
May
Jesse Velasco was awarded the
Sherman R. and Deborah Ann Dickman Graduate Student Travel Fellowship
!
April
Faith Bowman was awarded the prestigious NSF GRFP award!
January
Emily Innis wins a Poster Presentation Award at the Microbial Pathogenesis Annual Retreat!
Arevik Ghazaryan's contributions to the paper,
T cell–mediated regulation of the microbiota protects against obesity
, are published in
Science
!