Fellowships and Awards
2021
Congrats to First year student Tyshawn Ferrell who was awarded a GEM (Graduate Education for Minorities) fellowship!
Congrats to Samantha Schwartz (Conn lab) who won the 2021 Lew Award for Best Paper Published!
Congrats to Will McFadden (Sarafianos lab) who won the 2021 Lew Award for Best Overall First Year Student!
Congrats to Samantha Schwartz (Conn lab) who won the 2021 Lew Award for Best Overall Student!
Congrats to Maria Sterrett (Corbett lab) who was named the 2021 BCDB Program Scholar!
Congrats to Julia Tanquary for being named an Achievement Rewards for College Scientists (ARCS) fellow!
Congrats to Colby Schweibenz (Moberg lab) who was awarded a NIH NRSA F31 fellowship for her project entitled: “Defining the role of Taiman, the Drosophila homolog of AIB1, as a super-competitor in developing epithelia”!
Congrats to Paul Zakutansky (Feng lab) who was awarded a NIH NRSA F31 fellowship for his project entitled: “Functional Post-Transcriptional Interplay of the Nuclear RNA GOMAFU During Human Neural Cell Development”!
Congrats to Christine Bowen (Rangaraju and Seyfried labs) who was awarded a NIH NRSA F31 fellowship for her project entitled: “Regulation of Microglial Bioenergetics and Neuroinflammation by Kv1.3 Channels in Alzheimer's Disease”!
2020
Congrats to Bejan Saeedi (Neish lab) who won the 2020 Lew Award for Best Paper Published!
Congrats to Kate Hardin (Zheng lab) who won the 2020 Lew Award for Best Overall First Year Student!
Congrats to Bejan Saeedi (Neish lab) who won the 2020 Lew Award for Best Overall Student!
Congrats to Emma D’Agostino (Ortlund lab) who was named the 2020 BCDB Program Scholar!
Congrats to Julia Tanquary (Dunham lab) who was awarded an NSF GRFP fellowship!
Congrats to Maria Sterrett (Corbett lab) who was awarded a NIH NRSA F31 fellowship for her project entitled: “A Budding Yeast Model for Human Disease-Mutations in the RNA Exosome”!
Congrats to Izabela Suster (Feng lab) who was awarded a NIH NRSA F31 fellowship for her project entitled: “The Role of QKI in Human Neuron-Glia Lineage Development”
Congrats to Kristin Fowler (Koval lab) who was awarded a NIH NRSA F31 fellowship for her project entitled: “Impact of alcohol exposure on unjamming the airway epithelium”!
Congrats to Lee Cato (Ortlund lab) who was awarded a NIH NRSA F31 fellowship for his project entitled: “Modulating Coregulator Preference of Liver Receptor Homolog-1 with Small Molecules”!
2019
Congrats to Kelsey Maher (Deal lab) who won the 2019 Lew Award for Best Paper Published!
Congrats to Jacob Mattingly (Dunham lab) who won the 2019 Lew Award for Best Overall First Year Student!
Congrats to Ed Quach (Li lab) who won the 2019 Lew Award for Best Overall Student!
Congrats to Kelsey Maher (Deal lab) who was named the 2019 BCDB Program Scholar!
Congrats to Rachel Turn (Kahn lab) who was awarded the 2019 Lyon Award for her research focused on biochemistry!
Congrats to Sarah Strassler (Conn lab) who was awarded an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship!
Congrats to Liz Dreggors (Ghalei lab) who was awarded an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship!
Congrats to Sarah Strassler (Conn lab) for being named an Achievement Rewards for College Scientists (ARCS) fellow!
Congrats to Rachel Turn (Kahn lab) who was awarded a NIH NRSA F31 fellowship for her project entitled: “ELMOD2: proposed roles in regulating mitochondrial fusion and cell cycle”!
Congrats to Skylar Fisher (Hartzell lab) who was awarded a NIH NRSA F31 fellowship for her project entitled: “A Role for the Calcium activated Chloride Channel TMEM16a in Primary Ciliogenesis”!
Congrats to Emily Legan (Li lab) who was awarded a NIH NRSA F31 fellowship for her project entitled: “von Willebrand factor and thrombocytopenia in infective endocarditis”!
Congrats to Lauren Jeffers (Koval lab) who was awarded a NIH NRSA F31 fellowship for her project entitled: “Causes of Lung Barrier Dysfunction in a Translational Model of Chronic Alcohol Ingestion”!
Congrats to Raven Peterson (Koval lab) who was awarded a NIH NRSA F31 fellowship for her project entitled: “Anti-integrin nanowires as a platform to determine mechanisms regulating transepithelial permeability”!
Congrats to Samantha Schwartz (Conn lab) who was awarded a NIH NRSA F31 fellowship for her project entitled: “Regulation of 2'-5'-oligoadenylate synthetase 1 (OAS1) by dsRNA”!
2018
Congrats to Emily Hunter (Sale lab) who won the 2018 Lew Award for Best Overall BCDB Student!
Congrats to Kevin Morris (Corbett lab) who won the 2018 Lew Award for Best Paper Published!
Congrats to Ed Quach (Li lab) who was named the 2018 BCDB Program Scholar!
Congrats to BCDB Student Kelsey Maher (Deal lab) who was awarded a USDA National Institute for Food and Agriculture predoctoral fellowship!
Congrats to Bejan Saeedi (Neish lab) who was awarded a NIH NRSA F30 fellowship for his project entitled: “Regulation of oxidative liver injury by the probiotic Lactobacillus rhamnosus GG”!
Congrats to Elizabeth Minten (Yu lab) who was awarded a NIH NRSA F31 fellowship for her project entitled: “Elucidating control of BRCA1 by SIRT2 in DNA double-strand break repair”!
2017
Congrats to Brenda Calderon (Conn lab) who won the 2017 Lew Award for Best Paper Published!
Congrats to Sabrina Lynn (Koval lab) who was awarded a NIH NRSA F31 fellowship for her project entitled: “Impact of tight junction remodeling on lung epithelial barrier function”!
2016
Congrats to Jarred Whitlock (Hartzell lab) who won the 2016 Lew Award for Best Paper Published!
Congrats to Laura Newman (Kahn lab) who won the 2016 Lew Award for Best Overall BCDB Student!
Congrats to Paul Donlin-Asp (Bassell lab) who was named the 2016 BCDB Program Scholar!
Congrats to Marc Schureck (Dunham lab) who was named a GDBBS Graduate Career Award!
Congrats to Emma D’Agostino (Ortlund lab) who was awarded an NSF Graduate Research Student Fellowship!
Congrats to BCDB student Emily Weikum (Ortlund lab) who received the Alec Hodel Research Achievement Award!
Congrats to BCDB student Alicia Cutler (Pavlath lab) for winning the Laney Graduate School’s People’s Choice Award for the 3 Minute Thesis Competition at Emory University in May 2016!
Congrats to Amanda Engstrom (Katz lab) who was awarded a NIH NRSA F31 fellowship for her project entitled: “The Function of LSD1 in Tau Mediated Neurodegeneration”
Congrats to Isaac Bishof (Seyfried lab) who was awarded a NIH NRSA F31 fellowship for his project entitled: “Defining mechanisms of RNA-binding protein assembly linked to Alzheimer disease’!
Congrats to Ed Quach (Li lab) who was awarded a NIH NRSA F31 fellowship for his project entitled: “A multidisciplinary approach to elucidate the pathophysiology of thrombocytopenia”!
Congrats to Jarred Whitlock (Hartzell lab) who was awarded a NIH NRSA F31 fellowship for his project entitled: “The Role of Anoctamin 6 in Phospholipid Scrambling and Ion Channel Activity”!
Congrats to Josh Lewis (Kowalcyk lab) who was awarded a NIH NRSA F31 fellowship for his project entitled: “Lipid Raft Targeting of Desmoglein as a Mechanism for Desmosome Assembly”!
2015
Congrats to Emily Kuiper (Conn lab) who was named the 2015 BCDB Program Scholar!
Congrats to Brenda Calderon (Conn lab) for being named an Achievement Rewards for College Scientists (ARCS) fellow!
Congrats to Emily Weikum (Ortlund lab) who was awarded a NIH NRSA F31 fellowship for her project entitled: “A Novel Mechanism for the Glucocorticoid Receptor in Inflammatory Gene Regulation”!
Congrats to Julia Omotade (Zheng lab) who was awarded a NIH NRSA F31 fellowship for her project entitled: “The Role of Tropomodulin in Dendritic Spine Development and Synapse Formation”!
Congrats to Alicia Cutler (Pavlath lab) who was awarded a NIH NRSA F31 fellowship for her project entitled: “Interplay between nuclear import and transcriptional activity during myogenesis”!
2014
Congrats to Marc Schureck (Dunham lab) who was named the 2014 BCDB Program Scholar!
Congrats to BCDB student Paul Donlin-Asp (Bassell lab) who was selected to attend Young Researcher Attendee of the 64th Annual Lindau Nobel Laurate Meeting, attendance sponsored by the Acola Foundation!
Congrats to BCDB student Emily Rye Weikum (Ortlund lab) who was awarded the Best Poster Prize at the University of Alabama Birmingham’s Structural Biology Symposium!
Congrats to Kevin Morris (Corbett lab) who was awarded a NIH NRSA F31 fellowship for his project entitled: “Defining the neuronal function of the polyadenosine RNA-binding protein ZC3H14”!
Congrats to Josh Francis (Kahn lab) who was awarded a NIH NRSA F31 fellowship for his project entitled: “A Novel Mechanism of GTPase Regulation: Arl2 Interaction with TBCD”!
Congrats to Laura Newman (Kahn lab) who was awarded a NIH NRSA F31 fellowship for her project entitled: “Regulation of mitochondrial function by ARL2 and its putative effector ELMOD2”!
2013
Congrats to Crys Fagan (Dunham lab) who was named the 2013 BCDB Program Scholar!
Congrats to Paul Donlin-Asp (Bassell lab) who was awarded a NIH NRSA F31 fellowship for his project entitled: “The survival of motor neuron protein in axonal mRNA localization”!
Congrats to Danny Barron (Moberg lab) who was awarded a NIH NRSA F31 fellowship for his project entitled: “Dynein light chain 1 (Dlc1) regulates growth in Drosophila melanogaster”!
Congrats to Marc Schureck (Dunham lab) who was awarded a NIH NRSA F31 fellowship for his project entitled: “Mechanism of HigB-mediated ribosome-dependent mRNA degradation”!
2012
Congrats to Kevin Van Bortle (Corces lab) who was named the 2012 BCDB Program Scholar!
Congrats to BCDB student Katie Williams (Bassell lab) who was awarded an NIH NRSA F31 fellowship for her project entitled: “Modulation of RhoA Signaling by the mRNA binding protein hnRNPQ1”!
Congrats to Callie Wigington (Corbett lab) who was awarded a NIH NRSA F31 fellowship for her project entitled: “A Role for the Novel Poly(A) RNA-Binding Protein, ZC3H14, in Breast Cancer”!
Congrats to Ben Nanes (Kowalczyk lab) who was awarded a NIH NRSA F30 fellowship for his project entitled: “Regulation of endothelial adhesion by VE-cadherin endocytosis”!
Congrats to Pearl Ryder (Faundez lab) who was awarded a NIH NRSA F31 fellowship for her project entitled: “Regulation of AP-3-dependent axonal targeting by HECT ubiquitin ligases”!
Congrats to Nick Bauer (Doetsch and Corbett labs) who was awarded a NIH NRSA F31 fellowship for his project entitled: “DNA damage-induced regulation of base excision repair by dynamic localization”!
2011
Congrats to Connie Arthur (Cummings lab) who was named the 2011 BCDB Program Scholar!
Congrats to Jen Rha (Corbett lab) who was awarded a NIH NRSA F31 fellowship for her project entitled: “Mutation of poly(A) RNA binding protein, ZC3H14, leads to Intellectual Disability”!
Congrats to Matt Randolph (Pavlath lab) who was awarded a NIH NRSA F31 fellowship for his project entitled: “Muscle Stem Cells in Pharyngeal Physiology and Dysphagia”!
