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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.

Three Cell Biology Faculty are Recipients of new 3 Cavaliers Grants from the Office of the VP for Research

10/25/2018

In the first round of funding for a new seed-funding initiative, called the 3 Cavaliers Fund, designed to promote cross-disciplinary research, three cell biology faculty members are participants in two…

Four cell biology faculty become MilliPub Club members in 2018

9/21/2018

Four cell biology faculty members have recently joined the SoM’s MilliPub Club by having one of their publications garner 1000 or more cumulative citations.  Bernard Thisse and Christine Thisse have…

Jim Casanova and Bettina Winckler will be new Co-Directors of the Cell & Developmental Biology Graduate Program

8/23/2018

Dr. Doug DeSimone, Chair of Cell Biology, has announced that Dr. James Casanova and Dr. Bettina Winckler, both Professors in the Department of Cell Biology, have been appointed as Co-Directors…

Jessica Neville Little awarded NIH F30 Pre-Doctoral Fellowship Award

8/7/2018

The Department of Cell Biology congratulates Jessica Neville Little, an MSTP (MD-PhD) student working in Dr. Noelle Dwyer’s laboratory, who has been awarded an NIH F30 Pre-Doctoral National Research Service…