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Dr. Muralidharan
New Insights into Malaria Research from Dr. Vasant Muralidharan

In a significant advancement in malaria research, UGA’s Center for Tropical and Emerging Global Diseases has uncovered the role of an essential protein in the malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum. This research offers promising insights for vaccine and drug development against a disease that claimed over 600,000 lives worldwide in 2022, primarily affecting children under five. Led by Vasant Muralidharan, an Associate Professor in the…

Dr. Zeltner
Dr. Nadja Zeltner - one of the five UGA scholars granted NSF CAREER awards

Read Full Article Congratulations to Dr. Zeltner on receiving such a prestigious award! Five UGA scholars have received Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER) foundation awards in 2024 from the National Science Foundation for their research and potential as academic role models. The awardees are assistant professors Melanie Reber (Franklin College of Arts and Sciences Department of Chemistry), Christopher Newton (Department of…


Celebrating a Successful CBIO Retreat: A Strong Start to the New Academic Year

As we embark on a new academic journey, we want to extend our heartfelt thanks to everyone who made the recent CBIO retreat such a resounding success. The energy, enthusiasm, and dedication of our community members were on full display, and it was truly inspiring to witness.   The retreat provided a wonderful platform to explore new research, welcome new faces to our community, and celebrate the significant milestone of moving nearly half…

Megan Wright
Megan Wright received Dianne C. Davison Graduate Fellowship

Great news! Our PHD student, Megan Wright, been selected as the awardee of the University Women’s Club – Dianne C. Davison Graduate Fellowship for the 2024-2025 academic year. Congratulations on your award and continued success in your academic work.

Madelaine Usey
Dr. Madelaine Usey, Spring 2024 UGA Cellular Biology Graduate

UGA Cellular Biology is proud to present Dr. Madelaine Usey. Dr. Usey's research focused on characterizing the ATP synthase in the parasite Toxoplasma gondii. Located in the mitochondrion, the ATP synthase plays a critical role in generating cellular energy. Interestingly, over half of the subunits in the T. gondii ATP synthase complex are not found in other model organisms, begging the question of their role in the parasite. She…

Baihetiya Baierna
Baihetiya Baierna is Awarded American Heart Association Fellowship

Baihetiya Baierna, a PhD student in the laboratory of Dr. Silvia Moreno, has been awarded a fellowship from the American Heart Association. The fellowship was awarded to study the Synthesis of ubiquinone in the protozoan parasite Toxoplasma gondii. “Toxoplasma gondii infects approximately one third of the world human population. The infection can cause serious complications in people with a suppressed immune system. Barna’s research…

Poulomi Das
Poulomi Das: The Small Interactor of PKD2 protein promotes the assembly and ciliary entry of the Chlamydomonas PKD2–mastigoneme complexes

Poulomi Das is first author on ‘The Small Interactor of PKD2 protein promotes the assembly and ciliary entry of the Chlamydomonas PKD2–mastigoneme complexes’, published in JCS. Poulomi is a PhD student in the lab of Dr Karl F. Lechtreck at the Department of Cellular Biology, University of Georgia, Athens, USA, where she investigates the molecular world of proteins using microscopy. Read full interview: https://journals.biologists.com/jcs/article…

Carly Jordan
CBIO Alumna Carly Jordan was awarded $2Million grant from NSF

Carly has been PI of BCEENET- Biological Collections in Ecology and Evolution Network, an organization with the goal of broadening access to undergraduate research by using free digital data and open source analysis tools.  They started in 2020 to mitigate loss of research opportunities during online learning, and since then, more than 2000 students have participated in research. They have since been awarded a $2 million grant…

Ashley Rasys
Ashley Rasys selected to receive the 2023 Excellence in Research by Graduate Students Award

Congratulations to Ashley Rasys on winning the 2023 Excellence in Research by Graduate Students Award in Life Sciences from the Graduate School.

Dr. Munisha Mumingjiang
Dr. Munisha Mumingjiang, Spring 2020 UGA Cellular Biology Graduate

UGA Cellular Biology is proud to present Dr. Munisha Mumingjiang. Dr. Mumingjiang’s researched focused on studying cell fate specification and differentiation in vertebrate early embryonic development. She identified a novel role of Max Gene Associated protein (Mga) during Zebrafish neural crest development. She found that Mga drives neural crest specification independent of Myc activity, and may play a unique role as a molecular switch to…
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