Faculty Honors, Leadership, and Awards

Institutional Service – Leadership Positions

Vice Chair, Department of Cell Biology, Emory University (2021-present)

External Service – Major Awards, Appointments and Leadership

Section Editor, European Journal of Neuroscience (2021)

Standing Member, Sensory-Motor Neuroscience, Study Section, NIH (2022)

Institutional Service – Leadership Positions

Scientific Director, Emory Stem Cell Core (2018-present)

Charles Howard Candler Professor and Chair, Department of Cell Biology, Emory University (2015-present) 

External Service – Major Awards, Appointments and Leadership

Advisory Board, Cell Reports (2019-present)

Scientific and Clinical Advisory Committee, National Fragile X Foundation (2009-present)

Standing Member, NSD-B, Neurological Science and Disorders Study Section, NIH (2023-2027)

Institutional Service – Leadership Positions

Vice Chair, Department of Cell Biology, Emory University (2011-present)

External Service – Major Awards, Appointments and Leadership

Associate Editor Frontiers in Genetics (2016)

Associate Editor Frontiers in Neuroscience (2016)

Editor and Advisory Board iScience - Cell Press (2019-2023)

Guest Editor Neurobiology of Disease (2023-2024)

Institutional Service – Leadership Positions

Scientific Director, Emory Multiplexed Immunoassay Core (EMIC) (2019-present)

External Service – Major Awards, Appointments and Leadership 

Standing Member, Clinical Neuroplasticity and Neurotransmitters Study Section, NIH (2020)

Review Editor, Frontiers in Neuroscience (2018)

Associate Editor, Frontiers in Pain Research (2021)

Institutional Service – Leadership Positions

Director of the GMB graduate program

External Service – Major Awards, Appointments and Leadership 

Selected as a finalist for the National Postdoc Association Gallagher Mentor Award (1 of 8 nationally) (2021)

Co-chair 6^th International Conference on Epigenetics and Bioengineering (2022)

Elected to the National C. elegans leadership “wormboard” (2023)

National chair of the C. elegans portion of the Genetics Society of America Allied Genetics Meeting (2024)

Institutional Service – Leadership Positions

Diversity Liaison and Chair of the Department of Cell Biology Diversity, Inclusion and Equity Committee (2022 – present)

Senior Student Director; Biochemistry, Cell and Developmental Biology Graduate Program (2022 – present)

Vice-Chair, Graduate Admissions Committee; Genetics and Molecular Biology Graduate Program (2022 – 2023)

External Service – Major Awards, Appointments and Leadership 

eLife Early Career Reviewer (2018 – 2022)

Review Editor, Frontiers in Neurogenomics (2017 – present)

Review Editor, Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology – Cell Growth and Division Section (2020 – present)

Gunter Blobel Early Career Award, American Society for Cell Biology (2022)

Co-organizer and co-chair, “Cellular Symmetry Breaking” Special Interest Subgroup of the American Society for Cell Biology Annual Meeting (2019)

Co-organizer and co-chair, “Cellular and tissue dynamics in development” Platform Session of the 62^nd Annual DrosophilaResearch Conference (2021)

Co-organizer and co-chair, “Stem cell renewal, quiescence, and differentiation” Minisymposium of the CellBio ASCB | EMBO Annual Meeting (2021)

External Service – Major Awards, Appointments and Leadership 

Completed term as full member of the NIH/CSR DEV2 Study Section (2020-2022)

Chair, NIH/CSR Special Emphasis Panel ZRG1 CB-F (81)(2022)  

External Service – Major Awards, Appointments and Leadership 

Standing member of study section, Discovery Grants (Biological Systems and Functions), Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC)(2020-2023)

Chair, mini-symposium on Brainstem Mechanisms of Motor Control, Society for Neuroscience SFN annual meeting (2023)

External Service – Major Awards, Appointments and Leadership 

Awards:

Stanley Fahn Young Investigator Award, Parkinson’s Foundation (2021)

Emory MilliPub Club (2021)

External service:

Associate Editor, npj Parkinson’s Disease (2024-present)

Neuroimmune Crosstalk in the Gut: Impact on Local, Autonomic and Gut-Brain Function “Neuroimmune interactions across the gut-brain axis.” NIH; MD; June [Co-chair](2023)

World Parkinson’s Congress; “Emerging concepts and players of immunity in Parkinson’s.” (2023)

External Service – Major Awards, Appointments and Leadership 

Bensley Early-Career Investigator Award in Cell Biology, American Association of Anatomy (AAA)(2022)

Symposium Organizer and Chair: “Skeletal Muscle: Regeneration, Re-animation and Recovery”, American Association of Anatomy Annual Meeting (2023)

Advisory Board, International Symposium for Neural Regeneration (2023-2026)

Chair: “Immune-Sympathetic Effects of Spinal Cord Injury”, Winter Conference on Brain Research (2024)

Institutional Service – Leadership Positions

Emory School of Medicine Faculty Committee on Appointments and Promotions (FCAP)(2024-2027)

External Service – Major Awards, Appointments and Leadership 

Board of Scientific Counselors, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS), National Institutes of Health (2021)

Completed term as full member of the NIH/NDPR Study Section (2018-2022)