Congratulations to Brea Hampton (Mark Heise and Marty Ferris), who was awarded an F99/K00 transition fellowship from the National Institute on Aging. This award supports the transition to the postdoctoral phase by providing funding for the final 1-2 years of graduate … Continued

Congratulations to Carolyn Turcotte (Jeff Sekelsky lab), who was awarded an NRSA F31 predoctoral fellowship from the National Institute on Aging of the National Institutes of Health.  Carolyn’s project is titled “Mechanisms and regulation of meiotic recombination.”   Please also … Continued

Nila Pazhayam and Carolyn Turcotte (Jeff Sekelsky lab) published a review of genome-wide meiotic crossover patterning processes in Fronteirs in Cell and Developmental Biology (DOI: 10.3389/fcell.2021.681123).  Image: Suppression of crossovers in peri-centromeric regions (click to enlarge; see article for details). Please … Continued

Kandace Thomas (Michael Bressan lab) published a paper titled “Adherens junction engagement regulates functional patterning of the cardiac pacemaker cell lineage” in Developmental Cell (DOI: 10.1016/j.devcel.2021.04.004). Image: Graphical abstract summarizing key discoveries (see article for details; click to enlarge). Please see …