Congratulations to MCB graduate students Allyson Shea and Iqbal Mahmud on receiving 2017 Medical Guild awards! Medical Guild Competition Bronze Award Winner Allyson Shea Mentor: Yehia Daaka, Ph.D. “It Takes Two: The Host-Pathogen Relationship In Urinary Tract Infection” Medical Guild Advancement to Candidacy Award Iqbal Mahmud Mentor:…
Allyson Shea, a Biomedical Sciences PhD candidate in the lab of Yehia Daaka, PhD and member of the Molecular Cell Biology Advanced Concentration won the GSC Award for Outstanding Graduate Student of the Year for the 2016-2017 Academic Year. Allyson will be presented with the award next Wednesday, April 12…
Congratulations to Shuang Huang, Ph.D., Professor in the Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, for recently being featured in a UF Health News article titled “Drug trio shows effectiveness against deadly type of breast cancer in mouse model“. Click Here to read the full article in UF Health News…
Maria Zajac-Kaye, Ph.D., Professor in the Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, recently published a paper in Human Gene Therapy Methods titled “Efficient Gene Delivery and Expression in Pancreas and Pancreatic Tumors by Capsid-Optimized AAV8 Vectors.” Congratulations Dr. Zajac-Kaye!…
Molecular Cell Biology graduate students John Calise and Joe Black have received an Early Career Meeting grant from the American Society for Cell Biology. The money will be used to start a student-run local meeting on Translational Cell Biology, with presenters invited from research institutions across the state of Florida.
Eric Vitriol, Ph.D., Assistant Professor in the Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, recently published a paper in the Journal of Cell Science titled “Simultaneous quantification of actin monomer and filament dynamics with modeling-assisted analysis of photoactivation”. To read the full Journal of Cell Science article click here…
Rene Opavsky, Ph.D., joined the Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology as an Associate Professor and Cancer Preeminent faculty on November 1, 2016. Dr. Opavsky received his Ph.D. in Molecular Biology from the Slovak Academy of Sciences and comes to the University of Florida from the University of Nebraska.
Jude Masannat, a Graduate Assistant and Ph.D. student in Dr. Yehia Daaka’s Lab, is a recipient of the 2016 Alec Courtelis Award. This Alec Courtelis Award is given annually to three outstanding international graduate students at UF. Jude serves as president of the UF Organization for Graduate Student Advancement and…
Shuang Huang, Ph.D., a Professor in the Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, received a $200,000 award from the Florida Breast Cancer Foundation for his grant titled “Deterring Breast Cancer Metastasis by Restoring miRNA Processing.” Congratulations Dr. Huang!…
Iqbal Mahmud, a graduate student in Dr. Daiqing Liao’s laboratory, received a $300 student travel award from the American Society for Mass Spectrometry (ASMS) to attend the 64th ASMS Conference on Mass Spectrometry and Allied Topics on June 5-9, 2016 in San Antonio, Texas. Congratulations Iqbal! For more…
