Faculty Professional Service (2022-present)
Institutional service – leadership positions
- Gary Bassell, PhD serves as Scientific Director, Emory Stem Cell Core (2018-present).
- Gary Bassell, PhD serves as Chair, Dept. Cell Biology (2015-present)
- Francisco J. Alvarez serves as Vice Chair, Dept. Cell Biology (2021-present).
- Victor Faundez, MD. PhD serves as Vice Chair, Dept. Cell Biology (2011-present)
- Sandra Garraway, PhD serves as Scientific Director, Emory Multiplexed Immunoassay Core (EMIC), 2019-present
- Maureen Powers, PhD serves as Director, Discovery Phase of Emory School of Medicine Medical Curriculum (2014-present).
External service – major awards, appointments and leadership
Gary Bassell, PhD
2019 Advisory Board, Cell Reports
2009 Scientific and Clinical Advisory Committee, National Fragile X Foundation
2023 Standing Member, NSD-B, Neurological Science and Disorders Study Section, NIH
2023 President Elect, Association of Anatomy, Cell Biology and Neurobiology Chairs (AACBNC)
2023 Chair, symposium, Stem cell models of neurological disorders, CAN-CAN, Montreal
2023 Chair, symposium, Spatial Transcriptomics, AACBNC annual meeting, St. Pete, FL
2022 Co-organizer, International conference on RNA Localization, EMBO, Spain
Francisco J Alvarez, Ph.D.
2021 Section Editor, European Journal of Neuroscience
2022 Standing Member, Sensory-Motor Neuroscience, Study Section, NIH
Victor Faundez, MD. PhD
2016 Associate Editor Frontiers in Genetics
2016 Associate Editor Frontiers in Neuroscience
2019-2023 Editor and Advisory Board iScience (Cell Press)
2023-2024 Guest Editor. Neurobiology of Disease.
Sandra M Garraway, Ph.D.
2020 Standing Member, Clinical Neuroplasticity and Neurotransmitters Study Section, NIH
2018 Review Editor, Frontiers in Neuroscience
2021 Associate Editor, Frontiers in Pain Research
David Katz, Ph.D.
2021 Selected as a finalist for the National Postdoc Association Gallagher Mentor
Award (1 of 8 nationally)
2022 Co-chair 6th International Conference on Epigenetics and Bioengineering
2023 Elected to the National C. elegans leadership “wormboard”
2024 National chair of the C. elegans portion of the Genetics Society of America Allied Genetics Meeting
Dorothy Lerit, Ph.D.
2022 Gunter Blobel Early Career Award, American Society for Cell Biology
Ken Moberg, Ph.D.
2020-2022 Completed term as full member of the NIH/CSR DEV2 Study Section
2022 Chair, NIH/CSR Special Emphasis Panel ZRG1 CB-F (81)
Marie-Claude Perreault, PhD
2020-2023 Standing member of study section, Discovery Grants (Biological Systems and Functions), Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC)
2023 Chair, mini-symposium on Brainstem Mechanisms of Motor Control, Society for Neuroscience SFN annual meeting
Jill Ward, Ph.D.
2022 Bensley Early-Career Investigator Award in Cell Biology, American Association of Anatomy (AAA)
2023 Symposium Organizer and Chair: “Skeletal Muscle: Regeneration, Re-animation and Recovery”, American Association of Anatomy Annual Meeting
2023-2026 Advisory Board, International Symposium for Neural Regeneration
James Zheng, Ph.D.
2021 Board of Scientific Counselors, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS), National Institutes of Health
2018-2022 Completed term as full member of the NIH/NDPR Study Section