Dr. Erin Goley named a Fellow of The American Society for Cell Biology in 2023.
Bonita Powell named one of HHMI’s Gilliam Fellows for 2023.
Chenxu Guo is a Young Investigators: 2023 Award Winner, receiving the Alicia Showalter Reynolds Research Award.
Dr. Mollie Meffert (Department of Biological Chemistry’s Co-Director) is the recipient of the 2023 Hamilton Smith Award for Innovative Research. Dr. Meffert’s research focuses on post-transcriptional regulation of gene expression in the mammalian nervous system. This has included demonstrating a role for NFkB in dendritic spine morphology, showing how miRNAs sculpt the protein synthesis landscape during the neurotrophin response, and defining the role of the miRNA biogenesis regulating protein, Lin28, in neuronal plasticity in the central and peripheral nervous systems. Most recently, the Meffert lab has optimized an Argonaut Crosslinking and Immunoprecipitation (Ago-CLIP) approach to experimentally define in a genome-wide manner which miRNAs are associated with which mRNAs on the Ago complex in cells and tissues.