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Binta Jalloh Wins Award at 2017 SACNAS National Diversity in STEM Conference

Binta Jalloh in the lab

Congratulations to Binta Jalloh, GMB 4th Year, on being a recipient of the Graduate Student Oral Presentation Award at SACNAS 2017!

The title of her presentation was Loss of an evolutionarily conserved RNA binding protein, linked to human intellectual disability alters N6-Methyladenosine RNA methylation and splicing of sex lethal."


Brittany Phillips at Cold Spring Harbor Meeting

Brittany Phillips

Brittany Phillips was chosen to give a talk at the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Eukaryotic mRNA Processing meeting in August 2017. Her talk was titled, Post-transcriptional regulation of the Pabpn1 gene by HuR: Functional implications for muscular dystrophy.