Category: News and Highlights

2020 SDB Lifetime Achievement Award

1/22/2020

The Society for Developmental Biology (SDB) has announced that Dr. Ray Keller, Professor of Biology and Cell Biology, will receive the 2020 SDB Lifetime Achievement Award this July at the…

Adrian Halme and Katia Sol-Church receive Educational Fellowship Award for improvement of the PhD Programs at the SoM.

1/16/2020

Adrian Halme, Associate Professor of Cell Biology, and Katia Sol-Church, Research Professor of Pathology, have recently received an Educational Fellowship Award from the UVa School of Medicine. Their proposal was…

Best Oral Presentation awards for the 2019 Cell Biology Research Retreat

10/22/2019

A Cell Biology research retreat was held on October 11th in the newly renovated meeting space on the 3rdfloor of Pinn Hall.  Best Presentation awards were presented in both graduate…

Lois Rowsey honored for her long service to the Department of Cell Biology

10/16/2019

On Friday, October 4th,  Lois Rowsey was honored at a luncheon at the Boar's Head Inn for her long term service to the Department of Cell Biology.  For 36 years, Lois was…

Judy White research paper on Ebola virus receives special recognition

8/15/2019

A recent research paper from Judy White’s laboratory entitled "An exploration of conditions proposed to trigger the Ebola virus glycoprotein for fusion" has been selected by the editors of the…

Ray Keller honored by University of Wisconsin

7/15/2019

The University of Wisconsin’s Department of Integrative Biology has named a chaired professorship after distinguished UVa developmental biologist Ray Keller, the Thomas Jefferson Professor of Biology and Professor of Cell…

Abby Antoine Awarded NIH NRSA Award

5/24/2019

Abigail Antoine, a Cell and Developmental Biology PhD student working  in the laboratory of Dr. Brant Isakson (Department of Molecular Physiology and Biological Physics) has been awarded a highly competitive…

Jessica Neville Little successfully defends PhD dissertation

4/9/2019

Jessica Little, a student in the combined MD-PhD (MSTP) program, has successfully defended her PhD dissertation entitled "Mutations of key cytokinetic abscission mediators cause microcephaly". Her exciting research, conducted in…

Danielle DaCrema receives Mirzayan Science and Technology Policy Graduate Fellowship at the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine

3/25/2019

Cell Biology graduate student Danielle DaCrema has been awarded the prestigious Christine Mirzayan Science and Technology Policy Graduate Fellowship at the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine in Washington,…

Congratulations to Chris Bott from the Winckler Lab!

2/27/2019

Congratulations to Chris Bott!  He won our second image of the month competition with his image "The skeleton of a baby neuron: The labeled cytoskeleton of a baby mouse neuron…