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Department Research Photo Contest Winner Announced

The winner of the 2015 Annual Graduate Program Research Photo Contest is Snehal Chaudhari with this photograph of a human U2OS cell in a human bone osteosarcoma cell line.


Jena Chojnowski is a Future Hero of Medical Research

     

Jena Chojnowski
Jena Chojnowski Wins Research Grant

Congratulations to Jena Chojnowski, of the Lauderdale lab, who recently received a research grant from The Knights Templar Eye Foundation. The grant is sponsored by The Grand Encampment of the Knights Templar, an organization that provides grants that specialize in Pediatric Opthalmology. The mission of the Foundation is to provide assistance to those who face loss of sight due to the need for surgical treatment, and to provide funds for…
Tags: Cells and Disease


Researchers Identify Potential Impulsive Eating Trigger

An article posted on Yahoo!News on March 5, 2013 by Vonda J. Sines describes research on impulsive eating being performed by Dr. Ping Shen.  Dr. Shen's research was also featured in the March 1, 2013 issue of The Franklin College of Arts and Sciences Chronicles in an article by Alan Flurry that can be found at The Franklin Chronicles.

Dr. Katherine Verbist
Dr. Katherine Verbist Wins 2013 Excellence in Research Award

Congratulations to Dr. Katherine ("Kat") Verbist for winning the 2013 Excellence in Research by Graduate Students Award from the Graduate School. This award is worth $1,000, and she will be honored with other recipients at a banquet in April. For her thesis, Dr. Verbist studied how the immune system mounts a long-term response to an acute respiratory infection in the laboratory of Dr. Kim Klonowski.
Tags: Cells in Infection and Immunity


Fighting sleep: UGA discovery may lead to new treatments for deadly sleeping sickness

Few drugs have been developed to treat African trypanosomiasis, or sleeping sickness, and those in use are highly toxic, sometimes causing painful side effects and or death. Researchers at the University of Georgia have made a discovery that may soon lead to new safer therapies for this disease.

Sharon keller
Sharon Keller is selected for a 2012-13 ARCS Foundation Global Impact Award at the University of Georgia

This special scholarship of $ 10,000 is awarded for one year to a UGA doctoral student whose research does or will have an international effect. Sharon is studying signaling pathways in Trypanosoma brucei, the etiologic agent of African sleeping sickness in Dr. Moreno’s laboratory.
Tags: Cells in Infection and Immunity


Athens ranks as one of the ten best college towns to live in

Livability.com has ranked Athens number 8 on its list of top college towns. The site recognizes the engaging outdoors activities, architecture and music scene as reasons the city was chosen.


Cell-Signaling One Key To Fighting The Flu

An article posted by Alan Flurry on June 26, 2012 in The Franklin Chronicles describes Dr. Kimberly Klonowski's utilization of a well-known cell-signaling protein in fighting influenza.
Tags: Cells in Infection and Immunity


Dr. Silvia Moreno Identifies Potential Target for New Therapies Against Toxoplasma Infection

An article posted in The Franklin Chronicles By Alan Flurry on May 22, 2012 describes the fight against Toxoplasmosis being undertaken in the laboratory of Dr. Silvia Moreno.
Tags: Cells in Infection and Immunity
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