Alex Wei, a PhD student (NGG program) from the Wu lab recently received an F31 grant from NHGRI for research on “Dissecting Gene Regulatory Roles of TET Enzymes and 5-hydroxymethylcytosine in Mammalian Active DNA Demethylation.” Congratulations!
Laura Pinheiro is a new PhD student (BMB program) in the Wellen lab. Welcome to the Institute!
Joyce Liu, an MD/PhD student (BMB program) in the Wellen lab, was awarded an F30 fellowship. Congratulations!
Mike Murphy is a new PhD student (NGG program) in the Heller lab, and received an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship for research entitled “Sex-specific shifts in decision-making resulting from chronic-stress potentiated epigenetic remodeling in the striatum.” Congratulations!
Marco Carpenter, a graduate student in the Heller Lab, received the NIDA Drug Abuse Dissertation Research Award (R36) for work entitled “Nr4a1 activation suppresses Cocaine-induced behavior via epigenetic regulation of homeostatic target genes.” Congratulations!
CAMB-MVP student Christin Herrmann from the Weitzman lab successfully defended her thesis on October 31st. Congratulations!
Steven Zhao, a CAMB graduate student in the Wellen lab, will be defending his thesis on Oct 30 at 1 pm. Stay tuned for more information!
Yaroslav Morozov, a postdoc in the Greenberg lab, was awarded an Ovarian Cancer Research Fund Postdoctoral Fellowship. Congratulations Yaroslav!
Linda Zhou, an MD/PhD student from the Cremins lab, is the recipient of an NIH F30 Grant starting September 2019. Congratulations Linda!