Molecular Biosciences Trainee News
Congratulations to Sarah Mullinax (graduate student, Unckless lab) for defending her PhD dissertation on July 21st. Her thesis is entitled “Insights into the role of Diptericin A on Drosophila immunity, the microbiome, and life history traits”.
Congratulations to Kervens Accilien (graduate student, Unckless lab) who successfully passed his qualifying exam on July 22nd.
Brielle McKee (graduate student, Chandler lab) was awarded a competitive position on the NIH Chemical Biology training grant for 2022-2024. This program provides professional and other activities designed to prepare trainees for a career at the interface of chemistry and biology.
Cheyenne Loo (undergraduate, Chandler lab) and a NIH K-INBRE scholar, received an award for her poster and lightning talk entitled, “Promiscuity of the Chromobacterium subtsugae quorum sensing receptor CviR and its role in interspecies competition” at the Microbiology Society’s Cell-Cell Communication in Bacteria meeting held in Cambridge, UK June 29-July 1.
Cheyenne Loo (undergraduate, Chandler lab) won the Paul Kitos award for excellence in undergraduate biology.
Paul Ginsberg joined the Unckless lab as a KU Center for Genomics Postdoctoral Fellow. He will be co-advised with Justin Blumenstiel.
The Unckless lab welcomes Maggie Schedl as a new Masters student in Molecular Biosciences.