The Department of Genetics continually grows and changes with many new graduate students and post-doctoral fellows joining the department, as well as many graduate students and post-doctoral /fellows finishing their education and training and moving on to the next level.

We would like to welcome the newcomers, wish those departing much luck and acknowledge some of the department's recent accomplishments.
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ARRIVALS

Dr. Kristin Rogers (Ph.D, Oklahoma St. University) has joined Mark Heise’s lab as a postdoctoral fellow.

Dr. Chris Futtner is a new post-doctoral fellow in Larysa Pevny’s Lab. Chris received his PhD from the University of Florida, Dept of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology studying with Dr. James Resnick.

For more information about current graduate students and post-doctoral fellows in Department of Genetics labs, please visit individual researcher’s web pages. Click here to see list.
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DEPARTURES

Sarah Goetz (graduate student in Biology, Frank Conlon's lab) successfully defended her doctoral research March 23. Sarah will be joining the laboratory of Kathryn Anderson (Sloan Kettering Institute) as a post-doctoral fellow.

Folami Ideraabdullah (graduate student in the Genetics and Molecular Biology Curriculum, Fernando Pardo-Manuel de Villena’s lab) successfully defended her doctoral research 04/04/07 entitled “The Genetic Architecture of the DDK Syndrome: An Early Embryonic Lethal Phenotype in the Mouse”. Folami will be joining the laboratory of Marissa Bartolomei (Univ. of Pennsylvania) as a post-doctoral researcher to work on genomic imprinting.

Nate Montgomery (graduate student in the Genetics and Molecular Biology Curriculum, Terry Magnuson’s lab) successfully defended his doctoral research on March 28. Nate will be attending medical school at UNC-Chapel Hill in the fall of 2007.

Mehul Suthar (graduate student in Microbiology and Immunology, Mark Heise's lab) has successfully defended his doctoral research on February 27 and will be joining Michael Gale's laboratory at UT Southwestern as a post-doctoral researcher.

Congratulations and best wishes to all of these new PhDs!
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RECENT PUBLICATIONS

Okubo, T., Pevny, L.H. and Hogan, B.L. (2006) Sox2 is required for development of taste bud sensory cells. Genes and Development 20, 2654-2659.

Que, J., Okubo, T., Goldenring, J.R., Nam, K., Kimura, S., Morrisey, E., Taranova, O., Pevny, L., and Hogan, B.L. (2007) Multiple dose-dependent roles for Sox2 in th patterning and differentiation of anterior foregut endoderm. Development (in press)

Showell, C. and Conlon F.  “Decoding development in Xenopus tropicalis”. Genesis epub 5/07.

Yokota, Y., Ring, C., Cheung, R., Pevny, L., and Anton, E.S. (2007) Nap-1 regulated neuronal cytoskeletal dynamics is essential for the final differentiation of neurons in cerebral cortex. Neuron 54, 429-446.

Ramsey M. R., Krishnamuthy, J., Pei, X-H., Torrice, C., Lin, W., Carrasco, D. R., Ligon, K. L., Zhong, Y. and Sharpless N. E. (2007) Expression of p16Ink4a compensates for p18Ink4c loss in cyclin-dependent kinase 4/6-dependent tumors and tissues. Cancer Research 67:4732-4741.

For a complete list of recent publications visit here.