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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…

Doug DeSimone elected as Fellow of the AAAS

11/28/2018

Congratulations to Doug DeSimone, Chair of the Department of Cell Biology, who has just been elected a Fellow of the American Society for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) for his…

Winckler Lab discovery getting media attention

11/27/2018

A recent article in UVa Today by Josh Barney highlights recent work from the lab of Dr. Bettina Winckler that challenges scientific dogma about how neurons stay healthy by disposing…

Congratulations to André Landin Malt from the Lu Lab!

11/7/2018

Congratulations to André Landin Malt from the Lu Lab! His image, won our first image of the month competition. "The mysteries of neural tube closure." E8.75-E9.0 Wt Mouse Embryo stained for…

Congratulations to Jessica Neville Little from the Dwyer lab for her recent publication in Human Molecular Genetics!

11/5/2018

Congratulations to Jessica Neville Little from the Dwyer lab for her recent publication in Human Molecular Genetics! The paper is entitled: "p53 deletion rescues lethal microcephaly in a mouse model…

Ryan D’Souza wins Best Poster Presentation at 2018 FASEB SRC Conference

11/1/2018

Congratulations to Ryan D’Souza (Casanova lab) for winning Best Poster Presentation at a recent 2018 FASEB SRC conference - Small GTPases in Membrane Processes: Trafficking, Autophagy and Disease.