Hometown: Mount Pleasant, MI Year entered CMB program: 2020 Lab: Bill Bement Lab Brief Summary of Research: I am studying the role of cortical excitability in cell division. Cortical excitability is characterized by the …
Month: October 2021
Photo essay: CMB trainer Darcie Moore’s lab
On Tuesday, Sept. 21, Pathum Karunaratne, media specialist at Media Solutions, captured photographs in the lab of Assistant Professor Darcie L. Moore, PhD, in the Department of Neuroscience to depict research life in the school. After …
2021 Alumni Newsletter
Classes have resumed in person at UW, and campus is feeling quite lively. Despite the pandemic, our students, faculty, and alumni have continued to make great scientific strides and win prestigious awards, and the CMB …
2020 Raymond L. Erikson Exceptional Thesis Awardees
We are excited to announce that Sid Jain and Amelia Haj are the inaugural recipients of the Raymond L. Erikson Exceptional Thesis Award. This annual award honors CMB students who have written and defended an exceptional thesis. A fund to support the award was …
Student Spotlight: Luis Antonio Haddock
Hometown: San Sebastián, Puerto Rico Year entered CMB program: 2019 Lab: Thomas C. Friedrich Lab Brief Summary of Research: I currently work with understanding the diversification of Influenza A viruses during infection and transmission …
CMB alumnus Timothy Catlett named one of the winners of the 2021 Cool Science Image Contest
The yellow connecting arms, called axons, of diseased human brain cells grow willy-nilly across boundaries of inhibitory chemicals (the red stripes). Healthy axons would precisely follow the dark lanes, giving researchers the opportunity to test the effects of disease-causing mutations on axon growth.