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Upcoming Seminars
Date: September 8, 2022
Speaker: Eric Wang, PhD
Home Institution: The Jackson Laboratory
Title: Overcoming therapy resistance in hematologic malignancies
Host: Brenton Graveley, PhD
Date: October 4, 2022
Speaker: Bernhard Payer, PhD
Home Institution: Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG), Barcelona, Spain
Title: Epigenetic reprogramming of the X chromosome in the female mammalian germ line
Host: Stefan Pinter, PhD
Date: November 17, 2022 (virtual)
Speaker: Lindy Barrett, PhD
Home Institution: Broad Institute
Title: TBD
Host: Pedro Miura, PhD
Science In Seconds: What Can We Learn from Zebrafish?
About 20,000 zebrafish live in the lab of Jean-Denis Beaudoin, assistant professor of genetics and genome sciences, where he's seeking a better understanding of how defects and diseases develop in humans. But why zebrafish? Watch our latest Science in Seconds video to find out!
Two Students in the Genetics and Developmental Biology AoC receive Awards
Congratulations to Nathan Leclair, Ph.D. student in Biomedical Sciences, co-mentored by Dr. Brenton Graveley and Dr. Olga Anczukow-Camarda (JAX), as the recipient of the 2022 Henderson Award. This award is given annually to the student with the best dissertation in the Biomedical Science PhD program. The award was established in honor of Dr. Edward G. Henderson, a member of the Pharmacology Department and one of the first faculty of the University of Connecticut Health Center.
Congratulations to Nagham Khouri Farah, Ph.D. student in Biomedical Sciences, co-mentored by Dr. James Li and Dr. Justin Cotney, won the 1st place Poster Award at the UConn Health 39th Annual Graduate Student Research Day, in recognition of her poster presentation entitled: "Foxp1 and Foxp2 Regulate Cerebellar Hemisphere Formation by Controlling the diversification of Purkinje Cells".