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Madelaine Usey
Dr. Madelaine Usey, Spring 2024 UGA Cellular Biology Graduate

UGA Cellular Biology is proud to present Dr. Madelaine Usey. Dr. Usey's research focused on characterizing the ATP synthase in the parasite Toxoplasma gondii. Located in the mitochondrion, the ATP synthase plays a critical role in generating cellular energy. Interestingly, over half of the subunits in the T. gondii ATP synthase complex are not found in other model organisms, begging the question of their role in the parasite. She…

Baihetiya Baierna
Baihetiya Baierna is Awarded American Heart Association Fellowship

Baihetiya Baierna, a PhD student in the laboratory of Dr. Silvia Moreno, has been awarded a fellowship from the American Heart Association. The fellowship was awarded to study the Synthesis of ubiquinone in the protozoan parasite Toxoplasma gondii. “Toxoplasma gondii infects approximately one third of the world human population. The infection can cause serious complications in people with a suppressed immune system. Barna’s research…

Poulomi Das
Poulomi Das: The Small Interactor of PKD2 protein promotes the assembly and ciliary entry of the Chlamydomonas PKD2–mastigoneme complexes

Poulomi Das is first author on ‘The Small Interactor of PKD2 protein promotes the assembly and ciliary entry of the Chlamydomonas PKD2–mastigoneme complexes’, published in JCS. Poulomi is a PhD student in the lab of Dr Karl F. Lechtreck at the Department of Cellular Biology, University of Georgia, Athens, USA, where she investigates the molecular world of proteins using microscopy. Read full interview: https://journals.biologists.com/jcs/article…

Carly Jordan
CBIO Alumna Carly Jordan was awarded $2Million grant from NSF

Carly has been PI of BCEENET- Biological Collections in Ecology and Evolution Network, an organization with the goal of broadening access to undergraduate research by using free digital data and open source analysis tools.  They started in 2020 to mitigate loss of research opportunities during online learning, and since then, more than 2000 students have participated in research. They have since been awarded a $2 million grant…

Ashley Rasys
Ashley Rasys selected to receive the 2023 Excellence in Research by Graduate Students Award

Congratulations to Ashley Rasys on winning the 2023 Excellence in Research by Graduate Students Award in Life Sciences from the Graduate School.

Dr. Munisha Mumingjiang
Dr. Munisha Mumingjiang, Spring 2020 UGA Cellular Biology Graduate

UGA Cellular Biology is proud to present Dr. Munisha Mumingjiang. Dr. Mumingjiang’s researched focused on studying cell fate specification and differentiation in vertebrate early embryonic development. She identified a novel role of Max Gene Associated protein (Mga) during Zebrafish neural crest development. She found that Mga drives neural crest specification independent of Myc activity, and may play a unique role as a molecular switch to…


Department Research Photo Contest Winner Announced

The winner of the 2015 Annual Graduate Program Research Photo Contest is Snehal Chaudhari with this photograph of a human U2OS cell in a human bone osteosarcoma cell line.


Jena Chojnowski is a Future Hero of Medical Research

     

Jena Chojnowski
Jena Chojnowski Wins Research Grant

Congratulations to Jena Chojnowski, of the Lauderdale lab, who recently received a research grant from The Knights Templar Eye Foundation. The grant is sponsored by The Grand Encampment of the Knights Templar, an organization that provides grants that specialize in Pediatric Opthalmology. The mission of the Foundation is to provide assistance to those who face loss of sight due to the need for surgical treatment, and to provide funds for…
Tags: Cells and Disease


Researchers Identify Potential Impulsive Eating Trigger

An article posted on Yahoo!News on March 5, 2013 by Vonda J. Sines describes research on impulsive eating being performed by Dr. Ping Shen.  Dr. Shen's research was also featured in the March 1, 2013 issue of The Franklin College of Arts and Sciences Chronicles in an article by Alan Flurry that can be found at The Franklin Chronicles.
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