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The winner of the 2016 Annual Graduate Program Research Photo Contest is Ashley Rasys, with this photograph of a mouse brain from a Pax6 BAC 293d08- E4-EGFP pA transgenic line.
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, 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 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…
David Anaguano is first author on ‘ Time-resolved proximity biotinylation implicates a porin protein in export of transmembrane malaria parasite effectors’, published in JCS. As a Graduate Research Assistant in the lab of Vasant Muralidharan at Center for Tropical Emerging Diseases, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, USA,  David has been investigating the mechanisms protozoan parasites utilize to maintain a successful infection within their…
Malaria’s connection to Georgia goes back to the colonial period. The Southeastern United States provided prime conditions for a thriving mosquito population which ensured the spread of the disease. The state capital moved from Louisville to Milledgeville in 1806 in part because of malaria outbreaks among the state’s General Assembly. Later, the federal Office of Malaria Control in War Areas was established in Atlanta instead of…
UGA Cellular Biology is proud to present Master of Science Mike Choromanski. Choromanski’s research focused on further understanding genes related to neurodevelopmental disorders such as Joubert Syndrome and their role in cilia formation and stability. Using the single cell model Tetrahymena, he was able to find an additional Joubert Syndrome protein was found at the tips of growing cilia. The tips of cilia play important roles in both signaling…
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…
UGA Cellular Biology is proud to present Dr. Jenna Wingfield. Dr. Wingfield’s research focused on the cilium, which performs sensory and motility roles for cells. She used in vivo microscopy to study the journey of IFT trains as they emerge from the ciliary base, become loaded with tubulin, traffic to the ciliary tip, remodel into retrograde trains, and traffic back to the base. She found that trains form in a stepwise manner, with IFT-A…
UGA Cellular Biology is proud to present Dr. Manuel Fierro. Dr. Fierro's research focused on understanding the role that ER-resident proteins play in the process of egress of malaria parasites. He has found that a Ca2+-binding protein in the ER called PfERC regulates the proteolytic cascade required for membrane degradation during egress of P. falciparum.

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