Martin’s paper "Engineered kinesin motor proteins amenable to small-molecule inhibition" has been published in Nature Communications! http://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms11159
Mara’s paper "Clathrin binding by the adaptor Ent5 promotes late stages of clathrin coat maturation" has been published in MBoC! http://www.molbiolcell.org/content/27/7/1143.long
Jianping’s paper " Mechanosensitive subcellular rheostasis drives emergent single-cell mechanical homeostasis” has been published in Nature Materials!
http://www.nature.com/nmat/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nmat4654.html
Maria’s paper "ATRX loss promotes tumor growth and impairs nonhomologous end joining DNA repair in glioma" has been published in Science Translational Medicine! http://stm.sciencemag.org/content/8/328/328ra28.short
Andrew's paper "Coordination of signaling and tissue mechanics during morphogenesis of murine intestinal villi: a role for mitotic cell rounding" has been published in Integrative Biology! http://pubs.rsc.org/en/Content/ArticleLanding/2016/IB/C6IB00046K#!
David (Barolo lab) successfully defended his thesis "Patched Together: cis-Regulatory Logic of the Hedgehog Response" on Aug, 3, 2016.
David's paper "An ancient yet flexible cis -regulatory architecture allows localized Hedgehog tuning by patched/Ptch1 " has been published in eLife! http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4887206/
Yevgeniya's paper "PI(3,5)P2 biosynthesis regulates oligodendrocyte differentiation by intrinsic and extrinsic mechanisms" has been published in eLife! http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4889328/
Lucas (Giger Lab) has been awarded an NIH-NIGMS Pre-doctoral Fellowship by the Training Program in Translational Research (TPTR)!
Kyriel (Wellik Lab) has been awarded a position at the NIH Clinical Center course in Bethesda, MD on Clinical and Translational Research for PhD students!
Kristen is CDB’s new Interim Department Chair!
Thank you to Deb Gumucio for your tireless service & your many accomplishments for CDB in this role prior to Kristen!
Lei has been awarded a Jones Foundation Young Investigators Achievement Award! Only one award is granted each year to foster the career development of a young research faculty investigator working in the field of reproductive medicine!
DFB is featured in the Node!
http://thenode.biologists.com/developing-future-biologists-2016-discover...
Martin (Verhey Lab) was recently awarded an EMBL (European Molecular Biology Laboratory) Advanced Training Centre Corporate Partnership Programme Fellowship ! http://www.embl.de/aboutus/support-embl/corporate-partnership-programme/...
Yevgeniya (Giger lab) successfully defended her thesis “"Building White Matter: The Role of PI(3,5)P2 Biosynthesis in Myelin Formation, Stability, and Repair" on June 10, 2016.
Michael (Allen Lab and Pasca di Magliano Lab) has been awarded a Rackham Graduate Student Research Grant!
Daniel has been selected to receive a UROP Outstanding Research Mentor Award, one of only six UROP sponsors to receive this award. Daniel was nominated by Gabriel Hanna.
Ashley (Giger Lab) has received an NIH Training in Clinical and Basic Neurosciences Grant!
Kristen was nominated for the 2016 UM Association of Administrative Office Professionals award!
