Ryan Mulligan Awarded NIH F30 Fellowship
4/16/2023
Ryan Mulligan, an MSTP (Grad3) student in the Winckler Lab, has been awarded an NIH F30 Fellowship studying lysosomal membrane permeabilization (LMP) in the nervous system. LMP is characterized by…
Aleksandra Cwiek awarded AHA Predoctoral Fellowship
1/17/2023
Aleksandra Cwiek, the CDB graduate student in the Hirschi Lab, received an American Heart Association (AHA) Predoctoral Fellowship studying retinoic acid regulation of placental vascularization. She will explore how a…
Shaylyn Clancy Awarded NIDCD Fellowship
5/20/2022
Our sense of hearing is critically dependent on the spiral ganglion neurons (SGNs), which connect the sound receptors in the organ of Corti (OC) to the cochlear nuclei of…
UVA Today highlights Thisse Lab
12/22/2021
In this UVA Today article, read about how UVA researchers Christine and Bernard Thisse first used fish embryos to tease out the developmental steps for creating more sophisticated mammal embryos…
UVAToday highlights two of our newest faculty members
10/25/2021
In its October 25th edition, UVAToday features twelve new faculty from across grounds including Drs. Karen Hirschi and Saurabh Kulkarni from the Department of Cell Biology. Both Drs. Hirschi (Alumni…
The Department of Cell Biology welcomes Dr. Uma Paila to the Developmental Genomics Center
10/25/2021
Dr. Uma Paila was recently appointed Assistant Professor of Research in the Department of Cell Biology where she will play a key role in the newly created Developmental Genomics Center.…
Dwyer lab shows how aberrant neural stem cell divisions cause brain malformation
7/1/2021
Neural stem cells divide rapidly to grow the brain during development. The Dwyer Lab has discovered a role for the gene Cep55 in ensuring the speed and success rate of…
5/6/2021
Dr. Karen Hirschi’s laboratory in Cell Biology (along with collaborators from Yale University and Stanford University) are attracting considerable attention for two papers published in December, 2020 (Inside UVa and…
Graduate student-run reflections on anti-racism and inclusion gaining attention
10/23/2020
In response to the greatest social unrest in our country in a generation, a group of PhD students within the Cell and Developmental Biology training program, led by Faith Karanja,…
Anti-Racism Efforts in Cell Biology – A Start
6/11/2020
All of us have been struggling to come to terms with the horror of George Floyd’s death and to confront the reality of continuing entrenched racism within our society. Gustavo…
