GCDB Trainee News

GCDB trainee news

Read about what our GCDB graduate students’ achievements and activities.

Hunter Herriage publishes study of unscheduled endocycles in Drosophila ovarian somatic follicle cells

Tuesday, April 23, 2024

Congratulations to Hunter Herriage who co-authored the manuscript “Premature endocycling of Drosophila follicle cells causes pleiotropic defects in oogenesis” with his advisor, Brian Calvi. Hunter’s article appears in this month’s issue of Genetics. Check it out to learn what Hunter has been doing for his thesis research and to learn about how unscheduled endocycling of cells can disrupt tissue growth and function to negatively impact development.

Erica Nadolski wins two presentation awards for her thesis research!

Tuesday, April 23, 2024

Fourth-year GCDB student Erica Nadolski recently attend the Society for Comparative and Integrative Biology Annual meeting in Seattle, Washington. During the meeting Erica presented her thesis work performed in the laboratory of Armin Moczek and was recognized with the Best Graduate Student Poster Presentation award and was runner-up for the Best Graduate Student Oral Presentation award. Congrats to Erica for these outstanding accomplishments!

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Ananya Mahapatra uncovers a new post-transcriptional regulatory pathway for survival to hypoxia

Wednesday, March 6, 2024

Congratulations to Ananya Mahapatra who serves as first author on a manuscript entitled “ADAR-mediated regulation of PQM-1 expression in neurons impacts gene expression throughout C. elegans and regulates survival from hypoxia”, which was recently published in PLOS Biology. Ananya is a fifth-year student in the Hundley lab and has previously contributed to a review article during her time in the GCDB graduate program.

Haley Brown publishes her thesis research in Development

Wednesday, March 6, 2024

Congratulations to Haley Brown for her recently published article entitled “Polycomb safeguards imaginal disc specification through control of the Vestigial-Scalloped complex”. Haley is a sixth-year graduate student in the lab of Justin Kumar. This exciting work on the epigenetic control of eye fate was highlighted by the journal and uses a cutting-edge high-throughput sequencing method – CUT & RUN, for which the Kumar lab published a STARS protocol method paper earlier last year and which Haley was second author!

Qin Liao awarded a 2024-25 COAS Dissertation Research Fellowship!

Wednesday, March 6, 2024

Congratulations to Qin Liao for receiving an IU College of Arts and Sciences Dissertation Research Fellowship. Qin is a fifth-year student in the Wang lab and has already contributed to four publications on bacterial chromosome structure and dynamics!

Graphic demonstrating the antagonistic relationship between apoptosis and polyploidy in development and cancer.

Hunter Herriage and Yi-Ting Huang publish a review on polyploidy

Wednesday, September 6, 2023

Congratulations to Hunter Herriage and Yi-Ting Huang for their recently published review article entitled, “The antagonistic relationship between apoptosis and polyploidy in development and cancer.” Hunter and Yi-Ting are fourth-year graduate students in the lab of Brian Calvi and collaborated on this article in Seminars in Cell and Developmental Biology.

Ahmed Ghobashi publishes his thesis research in iScience

Wednesday, September 6, 2023

Congratulations to Ahmed Ghobashi who serves as first author on a manuscript entitled “Activation of AKT induces EZH2-mediated b-catenin trimethylation in colorectal cancer,” which was recently published in iScience. Ahmed is a sixth-year student in the O’Hagan lab and has previously contributed to three other research articles during his time in the GCDB graduate program.

Spencer Gray presents his poster at the 2023 FASEB Helicases and Nucleic Acid Machines Conference.

Spencer Gray awarded poster prize at recent FASEB meeting!

Wednesday, September 6, 2023

Congratulations to Spencer Gray for receiving an Honorable Mention poster prize at the FASEB Helicases and Nucleic Acid Machines Conference. Spencer is a fifth-year student in the Bochman lab. His thesis research focuses on characterizing the interactions of the helicase Hrq1 with G-quadruplexes in DNA.

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