Winners of awards at the Genetics Retreat were: Best Talk: Alex Stutzman (Jill Dowen and Dan McKay labs) Best Talk: Rachel DuMez (Rob Dowen lab) Best Poster: Sonja Mikhailovic (Jeremy Purvis and Adriana Beltran labs)
Sarah Brotman (Karen Mohlke lab) and Hannah Wiedner (Jimena Giudice lab) were selected as winners of the Terry Magnuson Dissertation Award. This award, named in honor of the founding chair of the Department of Genetics at UNC, is given to … Continued
Congratulations to Nila Pazhayam (Jeff Sekelsky lab), who was awarded an NRSA F31 predoctoral fellowship from the National Institute on Aging of the National Institutes of Health. Nila’s project is titled “Preventing Age-Associated Oocyte Aneuploidy: Mechanisms Behind the Drosophila melanogaster … Continued
GMB students Sarah Brotman (Karen Mohlke lab) and Nisitha Sengottuvel (Chad Pecot lab) participated in the Shadow a Scientist program. Shadow A Scientist is a graduate-student run organization that plans and conducts outreach visits for underserved communities in NC. Sarah … Continued
