The Department of Genetics is growing and changing with many new graduate students and postdoctoral fellows joining the department, as well as many graduate students and postdocs finishing their education/training and moving on to the next level. We would like to welcome the newcomers and acknowledge some of the accomplishments this past year.
   
 
 

 

Welcome to the newest members of the Genetics Department:

Andy Fedoriw, Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania (graduate advisor Marisa Bartolomei) recently joined Terry Magnuson’s lab as a Postdoctoral Fellow. 

Nick Osborne, Ph.D. from UCSF (graduate advisor Didier Stainier) also recently joined Terry Magnuson’s lab as a Postdoctoral Fellow. 

Rex Williams has recently joined Terry Magnuson’s lab as a Research Associate, and is responsible for ES cell mutagenesis.

For more information about current graduate students and postdoctoral fellows in Genetics Dept. Labs, please visit individual researcher’s web pages.
   
   
 
 

 

Congratulations to Genetics Department members recently awarded honors and prizes:

Chevonne Eversley  (graduate student, Genetics and Molecular Biology Curriculum, David Threadgill’s Lab) was awarded an AACR Minorities in Cancer Research Fellowship to present her research at the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) meeting in Washington, D.C., April 1-5, 2006.

Ming Yu (graduate student, Curriculum of Oral Biology, David Threadgill’s Lab) was awarded an AACR-AFLAC, Incorporated Scholar-in-Training Award to present her research at the national AACR meeting.

Katie Hanlon and Christina Paniccia both seniors in Biology at UNC who have been working in David Threadgill’s lab for the past two years will be traveling to AACR again this year, courtesy of the two-year AACR-Thomas J. Bardos Science Education Awards they received last year.

Just a tip for those of you with talented undergraduate researchers, many professional societies offer undergraduate specific or inclusive travel awards to permit undergraduate researchers the chance to travel to national meetings and present their research.
   
   
 
 

 

Congratulations to the soon to be former Genetics Department members:

Scott Magness, a post-doctoral fellow in Larysa Pevny’s lab, will be joining the Department of Medicine/ Division of Gastroenterology at UNC as a Research Assistant Professor effective July 1st, 2006.

Olena Taranova, a Curriculum in Neurobiology student, from Larysa Pevny’s lab defended her Ph.D. in February 2006 and will be joining Yi Zhang’s laboratory (UNC Dept. of Biochemistry and Biophysics) as a post-doctoral fellow.
   
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    If you would like to see news from your lab here, please contact either C. Hawkins or Debbie Threadgill.