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 …
Year: 2021
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.
Lab Profile: Harrison Lab
How do specialized egg and sperm cells come together to generate a new organism? Following fertilization, how is gene expression regulated to direct development and differentiation? These fundamental questions drive the research of the Harrison Lab.
Student Spotlight: Megan Bacabac
Hometown: San Diego, CA Year entered CMB program: 2020 Lab: Wei Xu Lab Brief Summary of Research: Investigating the role of protein arginine methyltransferase CARM1 in estrogen signaling as a potential target for combating …
Student Spotlight: Ben Evans
Hometown: Fishers, Indiana Year entered CMB program: 2021 Lab: Rotating Student Brief Summary of Research: The labs I am rotating in are focused on gene regulation/transcription in early development and/or disease progression. Awards and …
CMB trainer Paul Ahlquist on stopping the next pandemic
After more than a year of struggling against COVID-19, vaccines have been developed and deployed in record time and we are starting to see a rational path out of the pandemic. As momentous as this …
CMB student Katie Mueller inducted into Bouchet Graduate Honor Society
A huge congratulations to CMB student Katie Mueller, who was inducted into the Edward A. Bouchet Graduate Honor Society for 2021! Katie’s research focuses on developing next-generation cell and gene therapies across broad applications, including …
CMB trainer John Yin helps develop workshops on pandemic prevention
John Yin is part of a National Science Foundation-funded team leading workshops on predictive intelligence for pandemic prevention. The COVID-19 pandemic may still be raging on, but scientists from dozens of disciplines are already looking …
Student Spotlight: Alex Fister
Hometown: Buffalo Grove, IL Year entered CMB program: 2020 Lab: Anna Huttenlocher Lab Brief Summary of Research: Effects of bacterial infection on immune cell migration during immunodeficiency and wound healing Awards and Publications: “MicroRNA-mediated …