Tags: Graduate students

David Anaguano
David Anaguano: Time-resolved proximity biotinylation implicates a porin protein in export of transmembrane malaria parasite effectors

David Anaguano is first author on ‘ Time-resolved proximity biotinylation implicates a porin protein in export of transmembrane malaria parasite effectors’, published in JCS. As a Graduate Research Assistant in the lab of Vasant Muralidharan at Center for Tropical Emerging Diseases, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, USA,  David has been investigating the mechanisms protozoan parasites utilize to maintain a successful infection within their…

PhD Candidate Ale Villegas and Advisor Dr. Vasant Muralidharan
PhD Candidate Ale Villegas and Advisor Vasant Muralidharan Receive Gilliam Graduate Fellowship Award

Malaria’s connection to Georgia goes back to the colonial period. The Southeastern United States provided prime conditions for a thriving mosquito population which ensured the spread of the disease. The state capital moved from Louisville to Milledgeville in 1806 in part because of malaria outbreaks among the state’s General Assembly. Later, the federal Office of Malaria Control in War Areas was established in Atlanta instead of…

Master of Science, Mike Choromanski
Master of Science Mike Choromanski, Spring 2020 UGA Cellular Biology Graduate

UGA Cellular Biology is proud to present Master of Science Mike Choromanski. Choromanski’s research focused on further understanding genes related to neurodevelopmental disorders such as Joubert Syndrome and their role in cilia formation and stability. Using the single cell model Tetrahymena, he was able to find an additional Joubert Syndrome protein was found at the tips of growing cilia. The tips of cilia play important roles in both signaling…

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…

Dr. Jenna Wingfield
Dr. Jenna Wingfield, Spring 2020 UGA Cellular Biology Graduate

UGA Cellular Biology is proud to present Dr. Jenna Wingfield. Dr. Wingfield’s research focused on the cilium, which performs sensory and motility roles for cells. She used in vivo microscopy to study the journey of IFT trains as they emerge from the ciliary base, become loaded with tubulin, traffic to the ciliary tip, remodel into retrograde trains, and traffic back to the base. She found that trains form in a stepwise manner, with IFT-A…

Dr. Manuel Fierro
Dr. Manuel Fierro, Spring 2020 UGA Cellular Biology Graduate

UGA Cellular Biology is proud to present Dr. Manuel Fierro. Dr. Fierro's research focused on understanding the role that ER-resident proteins play in the process of egress of malaria parasites. He has found that a Ca2+-binding protein in the ER called PfERC regulates the proteolytic cascade required for membrane degradation during egress of P. falciparum.

Zahra Abdul Nawaz, PhD Student in the Kipreos Lab
Zahra Abdul Nawaz is Awarded Two Distinguished Research Fellowships

Zahra Abdul Nawaz, a PhD student in Dr. Edward Kipreos' laboratory, has the outstanding accomplishment of winning both the Mary Loraine Young Hines Graduate Fellowship in Cancer Research and the Grimes Family Distinguished Graduate Fellowship in Natural Sciences from the University of Georgia Franklin College of Arts and Sciences. Each of these fellowships is awarded to just one student working the area of cancer research and provides…


Department Research Photo Contest Winner Announced

The winner of the 2018 Annual Graduate Program Research Photo Contest is Jennifer Jenkins with this photograph of planarians (flatworms) that have been through whole-mount in situ hybridization labeling the central nervous system.

Riju Balachandran
Riju Balachandran is Awarded Two Distinguished Cancer Research Fellowships

Riju Balachandran, a PhD student in Dr. Edward Kipreos' laboratory, has the outstanding accomplishment of winning both the Mary Loraine Young Hines Graduate Fellowship in Cancer Research and the Grimes Family Distinguished Graduate Fellowship in Natural Sciences from the University of Georgia Franklin College of Arts and Sciences. Each of these fellowships is awarded to just one student working the area of cancer research and provides…


Ashley Rasys Receives ARCS Foundation Award

Ashley Rasys, form the James Lauderdale Lab, has been selected to receive the 2017-2018 ARCS Foundation Award. The ARCS® Foundation, Inc. is a national organization committed to advancing science through supporting young American scholars.  These awards go to promising students who are pursuing degrees in science, engineering, and medical research.
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