2022
- New Promotion: Congratulations to Dr. David Katz for his promotion to Tenured Associate Professor of Cell Biology, effective September 1, 2022.
- New Promotion: Congratulations to Dr. Dorothy Lerit for her promotion to Associate Professor of Cell Biology, effective September 1, 2022.
- New Faculty Member: February 1, 2022: Dr. Lindsey Seldin joins the department as Assistant Professor.
- New Award: Congratulations to Jill Ward, PhD, Assistant Professor of Cell Biology, for her 2022 RR Bensley Early-Career Investigator Award in Cell Biology from American Association of Anatomy.
2021
- New Faculty Member: September 1, 2021: Dr. Shirley Zhang joins the department as Assistant Professor.
- New Faculty Member: September 1, 2021: Dr. Kenneth Myers is promoted from Instructor to Assistant Professor.
- New Grant: Dr. Hyojung Choo was awarded an NIH Alzheimer's focused administrative supplement for her current R01 grant titled "Myonuclear homeostasis in craniofacial muscles" (2021-2022).
- New Grant: Dr. Hyojung Choo and Dr. W. Hong Yeo of Georgia Tech were awarded an NIH R21 grant titled, "Development of Nanomembrane Electronics and Machine-Learning Algorithms for Quantitative Screening of Dysphagia Therapeutics" (2021-2024).
- New Multi-PI/Institutional Award: Congratulations to Tim Sampson on funding as part of a collaborative multi-institutional grant from the Aligning Science Across Parkinson's Collaborative Research Network (in association with the Michael J. Fox Foundation).
- New Hidden Gem Award: Dr. Jill Ward received the Emory School of Medicine 2021 "Hidden Gem Award."
- New R21 Award: Congratulations to postdoctoral fellow Dr. Yaqing (Celia) Li for her 2-year NIH R21 award titled, "Celiac ganglia plasticity after spinal cord injury."
- New Multi-PI Project Award: Congratulations to Drs. Marie-Claude Perreault, Shawn Hochman, and Francisco Alvarez for their 3-year senior grant, “Plasticity of the spinal interneuronal connectome controlling cutaneous vasculature after SCI,” from the Craig H. Neilsen Foundation.
- New Publication: Dr. David Katz Publishes Paper in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
- New Multi-PI Project Award: Emory Fragile X Center: $8 million NIH grant supports next-generation neuroscience Gary Bassell is Project PI with Eric Klann at NYU on new NIH Fragile X Center, directed by Peng Jin and Steve Warren, Department of Human Genetics.
- New R01 Award: Dr. Dorothy Lerit, Assistant Professor of Cell Biology, received her first NIH-NIGMS grant titled, “Post-transcriptional mechanisms of centrosome regulation”. The grant is for five years.
- New NINDS Award: Bassell Lab Receives NINDS Funding for Work on Myotonic Dystrophy
Prior Years' Cell Biology News
- Dr. Dorothy Lerit Publishes Paper in Genetics
- Dr. Maureen Powers Received the Hidden Gems Award
- Dr. Criss Hartzell Publishes Paper in PNAS
- Dr. David Katz Awarded the Escher Prize in Germ Cell Exposures
- Dr. Andrew Kowalczyk Appointed Vice President-elect (2019-2020) and will be Vice President (2020-2021) of the Society for Investigative Dermatology
- Dr. Ken Moberg Publishes Paper in Current Biology
- Dr. Matt Rowan Receives AUTIFONY THERAPEUTICS LTD Grant
- Dr. Victor Faundez Publishes Paper in Journal of Neuroscience
- Dr. Gary Bassell Appointed to Editorial Board of Cell Reports
- Dr. Gary Bassell Publishes Paper in Cell Reports
- Dr. Criss Hartzell named 2018 AAAS Fellow
- Bassell Lab Research is Highlighted in Spectrum News
- Dr. Gary Bassell Publishes Paper in Neuropsychopharmacology and highlighted in EurekAlert
- Dr. Victor Faundez Publishes Paper in Cell Systems and highlighted in The Scientist
- Dr. Win Sale Publishes Paper in Molecular Biology of the Cell
- Dr. Win Sale Publishes Paper in PLOS Genetics
- Dr. Hyojung Choo Receives Woodruff Scholar Early Independence Award
- Dr. Hyojung Choo Receives NIH Award
- Dr. David J. Katz Publishes Paper in Nature Communications
- Dr. Maureen Powers Awarded Pilot grant through Winship Invest
- Dr. James Zheng Receives a Competing Renewal of Long-Standing (20th year) NIH R01 Award
- Emory Stem Cell Core Becomes newest member of EICF
- Dr. Ken Moberg Receives the 2017 SOM Dean's Teaching Award
- Dr. Gary Bassell Publishes paper in Cell Reports
- Dr. Ken Moberg Publishes paper in Cell Reports
- Congrats to Dr. James Zheng on an awesome paper in JCB
- Dr. Wilfried Rossoll Publishes Paper in Cell Reports
- Dr. Dorothy Lerit Publishes Paper in Cell Reports
- Dr. Kenneth Moberg is Appointed to NIH Study Section
- Dr. Gary Bassell Received the Emory 1% Award for His Top 1 Percentile Score on an "NIH R01 Grant" proposal
- Dr. Victor Faundez Became an Honorary Inductee into the Sir William Osler Society, Emory University School of Medicine (Teaching Award)
- Dr. James Zheng Appointed to the NDPR Study Section
- Bassell and Rossoll Labs Publish Paper in The Journal of Neuroscience
- Dr. Alexa Mattheyses Receives Five Year NSF Career Development Award
- Dr. David Katz Publishes Paper in ELife
- Bassell and Warren Labs Publish Paper in PNAS
- Dr. Maureen Powers Received the Dean's Teaching Award for 2015
- Dr. Gary Bassell Named Chair of Cell Biology
- Dr. Andrew Kowalczyk Promoted to Professor
- Fragile X Syndrome: Building a Case for a Treatment Strategy
- Dr. Andrew Kowalczyk received the Dean's Teaching Award for 2014