News & Events Recent Graduations & Promotions Congratulations to Anne Carroll and Valerie Awad from the Bowman lab for passing their Qualification Exams in May! Time to celebrate your new Master’s degrees. Kudos to Jonathan Handy from the Jenny lab for passing your qual, Master Jonathan! Congratulations Maryam Jafari Rasht from the Cuervo lab for obtaining your PhD. From now on…. Dr. Jafari Rasht! Congrats Mericka McCabe from the Cuervo lab for obtaining your PhD. From now on…. Dr. McCabe! . Recent Funding & Awards Congrats to Aditi Shastri on the new R01 award from the FDA. Kudos to Dario Riascos-Bernal who was invited to serve as an ad hoc reviewer for the NIH Atherosclerosis and Vascular Inflammation (AVI) study section. Congratulations to Susmita Kaushik from the Cuervo lab who presented her work as invited speaker in the plenary session of the Kern Lipid Conference. Congrats to Achalefac Akem from the de Oliveira lab for being selected to present her work at Immunology RIG session of Zebrafish Disease Modeling Society Conference titled “Exploring the use of new diet-induced metainflammation zebrafish models to investigate neutrophil biology.” Congrats to Illana Karp from the Bowman lab for winning a poster prize at the pre-meeting workshop. Congratulations to Ilana Karp from the Bowman lab and Maria Feliz Norberto from the de Oliveira and Bowman labs for their receipt of the Liang Zhu Fellowship Awards! Props to Maria Feliz Norberto from the Bowman and de Oliveira labs for her talk at the Zebrafish Disease Modeling Society Conference titled "Heterozygous ddx41 mutation promote age-dependent hematopoietic stem and progenitor cell dysfunction”. A hearty congratulations to Michael Wysota from the Shastri lab on receiving ASH Abstract Achievement Award 2023 for oral abstract at ASH Annual Meeting. Way to go Rabia Khawaja from the Cuervo lab for getting the first prize for oral presentation in the 4th Annual WIA Symposium! Congratulations to Samarpana Chakraborty from the Shastri lab on receiving the ASH Abstract Achievement Award 2023 for poster abstract at ASH Annual Meeting. Kudos to Sammi Chung from the de Oliveira lab for her talk at the Zebrafish Disease Modeling Society Conference titled “Establishing reference diets and feeding regimens to induce obesity and associated comorbidities”. Congratulations to Satya Surabhi from the Jenny lab for her fellowship award from the American Parkinson Disease Association. An applause for WIA members for organizing a fantastic 4th Annual WIA Symposium! Welcome to DMB! Hanna Scholze joined the Bowman lab as an MSTP student. Welcome to DMB, Hanna! Juliana Gomes joined the de Oliveira lab as a Postdoctoral fellow. Welcome Juliana! Ligia Ramos dos Santos is a new Postdoctoral fellow in the Cuervo lab. Welcome Ligia! Saayak Halder has joined the Cuervo lab as Postdoctoral fellow (co-mentored with Dr. Evris Gavathiotis). Welcome Saayak! Recent Publications Props to Aditi Shastri, Kith Pradhan et al for their paper in Blood Advances titled “Impact of Preexisting Autoimmune Disease on Myelodysplastic Syndromes Outcomes”. Congrats to Richard Stanley et al for their review in Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience on Regulation of normal and pathological microglia states by CSFs. Congratulations to Violeta Chitu et al from the Stanley lab on their paper in Glia describing the prophylactic effect of chronic immunosuppression in CRL. An applause for Richard Stanley, Violeta Chitu et al on their paper in Neurologia i Neurochirurgia Polska on Potential prophylaxis with glucocorticoids of CSF1R mutation carriers. Kudos to Fabrizio Biundo et al from the Stanley lab on their paper in Glia on the contribution of G-CSF to behavior and pathology of CSF-1 Receptor Related Leukodystrophy (CRL). Way to go Fabrizio Biundo et al from the Stanley lab on a second paper in Biomedicines showing that Trem2 enhances demyelination in CRL! Congratulations to Susmita Kaushik from the Cuervo lab for publishing her work on adipocyte differentiation and CMA in Science Advances. Congratulations to Adam Sugarman, alumnus from the Di Cristofano lab for his paper in Cancer Letters on targeting one-carbon metabolism in thyroid cancer. An applause for Cassia Michaels and Sofia de Oliveira for their review in Current Opinion Cell Biology titled “Exploring the dynamic behavior of leukocytes with Zebrafish”. Congrats to Greg Krause et al from the Cuervo lab who got the work on the role of Bag6 on eMI published in Cell Reports. Kudos to Greg Krause and Susmita Kaushik from the Cuervo lab for publishing their work on autophagy/unconventional secretion in Science Advances. Congrats to Jonathan Handy from the Jenny lab for his comment paper about the role of LAMPs in the regulation of lysosomal pH accepted at Autophagy. Friday, December 29, 2023