Category: Alumni News
MCBB PhD alum Dr. Daniel Starcynowski (GRS ’05) has been appointed to three leadership positions at the University of Cincinnati Children’s Hospital: Director of the Division of Experimental Hematology and Cancer Biology; Director of scientific innovation in the Cancer and Blood Disorders Institute; and Research Deputy Director of the University of Cincinnati Cancer Center. The […]
Dr. Amanda Pinheiro, an MCBB PhD alum of the Naya Lab, recently published a paper in the journal Development. Dr. Pinheiro’s paper was selected to appear as a “Research Highlight”, and both she and Dr. Naya were interviewed by the journal in “The people behind the papers” to discuss the significance of their work. This […]
Dr. Anna Berenson of the Fuxman Bass Lab was selected as the winner of the Biology Department’s 2024 Belamarich Award for her doctoral dissertation in Molecular Biology, Cell Biology & Biochemistry titled “Paired Yeast One-Hybrid Assays to Detect DNA-Binding Cooperativity and Antagonism Across Transcription Factors.” The selection committee was impressed by the quality of Anna’s work, its combination […]
Milad Babaei, MCBB PhD student of the Green Lab, and Dr. Zhaoqing Yan (GRS ’23), along with their mentor, Dr. Alexander Green, are co-authors on a recently published patent. This patent, titled “Isothermal Nucleic Acid Detection Assays and Uses Thereof” by Green et al. (US Patent 2023/0313283, October 2, 2023), describes rapid methods for detecting […]
Dr. Daniel Starczynowski, MCBB alumnus from the Gilmore Lab and Professor at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center and at the University of Cincinnati, was awarded the Katherine Stewart Waters Endowment Chair for Hematologic Malignancy on August 27, 2019. Dr. Thomas Gilmore provided the opening remarks at the ceremony. Biography & Research
BU MCBB PhD and Frydman lab alum, Michelle Olsen, is the lead author of a paper titled “Polyamines and Hypusination Are Required for Ebolavirus Gene Expression and Replication” which was recently published in the American Society for Microbiology’s mbio journal in July 2016. Michelle is now a postdoctoral fellow in the Connor Lab where she […]