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2023

Board Nomination: Congratulations to Dr. Jill Ward for her nomination to the Scientific Advisory Board for The International Symposium for Neural Repair. Since 1985, The ISNR has met every 2 years and is the premier forum for the presentation and discussion of progress, insights and controversies important to advancing the understanding of injury responses and potential therapeutics targeting peripheral nerve and central nervous system injuries. Dr. Ward will serve a 3-year term.
New Grants: Congratulations to Don Noble, Nisha Raj and Victor Faundez on being awarded an Emory URC grant!! The University Research Committee (URC), oversees a competitive, annual research grant program to support research and creative projects in fields with limited external funding, or to explore new areas of research that are likely to attract future external support.
New Travel Awards: Cell Biology announced the Win Sale Graduate Student Travel Awards for BCDB students.
New Grant: Congratulations to Dr. Dorothy Lerit for her new 3-year American Cancer Society research scholar grant.
New Faculty Member: The Department of Cell Biology is pleased to welcome Alan Emanuel, PhD, who will join us in January 2023 as an Assistant Professor of Cell Biology. Dr. Emanuel is currently a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard Medical School. His new lab, to be located on 6^th floor WBRB, will work on Signal Processing in the Somatosensory System.

2022

New Publication: Congratulations to the Rowan lab for their publication in eLife: Computational Neuroscience titled, "A faster way to model neuronal circuitry: Artificial neural networks could pave the way for efficiently simulating large-scale models of neuronal networks in the nervous system".
New Award: Congratulations to Dr. Dorothy Lerit for her 2022 Günter Blobel Early Career Award from the American Society for Cell Biology.
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 Award: Dr. Nisha Raj, Postdoctoral Fellow in the Bassell Lab, received the 2022 NARSAD Junior Investigator Award from the Brain & Behavior Research Foundation. The Brain & Behavior Research Foundation is the largest non-government, donor-supported organization that distributes funds for psychiatric brain and behavior disorder research. The Foundation’s NARSAD Young Investigator Grant (YI) program offers up to two years of funding to enable promising investigators to either extend their research fellowship training or to begin careers as independent research faculty.
New Publication: Summer 2022: Congratulations to the Jie Jiang lab and colleagues on this exciting work on a kinesin mutation in ALS, published last week in EMBO Reports.
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 Promotion: Congratulations to Dr. Peter Wenner for his promotion to Professor, effective September 1, 2021.
New Promotion: Congratulations to Dr. Marie-Claude Perreault for her promotion to Associate Professor, effective September 1, 2021.
New Promotion: Congratulations to Dr. Sandra Garraway for her promotion to Associate Professor, effective September 1, 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 for his first R01 award entitled, "Interaction of pyrethroid exposure and the microbiome on Parkinson's disease related pathologies," from NIH National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences. Dr. Sampson also received 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 Young Investigator Award: Congratulations to Dr. Ryan Purcell for his 2-year New Investigator Award, "Cross-comparison of schizophrenia risk copy number variants," from the Brain & Behavior Research Foundation.
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 Grant: Kaela S. Singleton, PhD, Postdoc in the Faundez Lab, is awarded a 2021 Postdoctoral Enrichment Grant from the Burroughs Welcome Fund.
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 R01 Award: Dr. Jie Jiang, Assistant Professor in Cell Biology, received his first NIH grant titled, "Cell-type-specific toxicity of C9orf72 repeat expansions in FTD and ALS".
New NINDS Award: Bassell Lab Receives NINDS Funding for Work on Myotonic Dystrophy

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