Leelabati Biswas is first author on a paper in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, October 2024. “Maternal genetic variants in kinesin motor domains prematurely increase egg aneuploidy”.

Hanna O. Caiola is first author on a paper in FASEB Journal official publication of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology, October 2024. “Neuronal connectivity, behavioral, and transcriptional alterations associated with the loss of MARK2”.

Elena Forzisi-Kathera-Ibarra is first author on a paper in FASEB Journal official publication of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology, October 2024. “KCNB1-Leptin receptor complexes couple electric and endocrine function in the melanocortin neurons of the hypothalamus”.

Carolyn W. Kinkade is first author on a paper in Journal of Exposure Science & Environmental Epidemiology, October 2024. “Sociodemographic and dietary predictors of maternal and placental mycoestrogen concentrations in a US pregnancy cohort”.

Justin Koesterich is first author on a paper in Internation Journal of Molecular Sciences, September 2024. “Network Analysis of Enhancer-Promoter Interactions Highlights Cell-Type-Specific Mechanisms of Transcriptional Regulation Variation”.

Francesca LoFaro is first author on a paper in Addiction Neurosciene, September 2024. “Stimulating the posterior parietal cortex reduces self-reported risk-taking propensity in people with tobacco use disorder”.

Keith Lange is first author on a paper in Proteins, August 2024. “Valacyclovir and Acyclovir Are Substrates of the Guanine Deaminase Cytosolic PSD-95 Interactor (Cypin)”.

Danny Wan is first author on a paper in BMC Genomics, August 2024. “Analyzing RNA-Seq data from Chlamydia with super broad transcriptomic activation: challenges, solutions, and implications for other systems.”

Ahmad Salman Sirajee is first author on a paper in Translational Oncology, August 2024. “Cell-free nucleic acid fragmentomics: A non-invasive window into cellular epigenomes”.

Sonal Gahlawat is first author on a paper in Annals of Biomedical Engineering, July 2024. “Tissue Engineered 3D Constructs for Volumetric Muscle Loss”.

Kiranmayi Vemuri is first author on a paper in bioRXIV, July 2024, “Diet-induced obesity mediated through Estrogen-Related Receptor α is independent of intestinal function”.

Jay N. Joshi is first author on a paper in Cell Reports, July 2024. “mTORC1 activity oscillates throughout the cell cycle, promoting mitotic entry and differentially influencing autophagy induction”.

Kyle P. Flannery is first author on a paper in Neurogenetics, July 2024. “A novel missense variant in the ATPase domain of ATP8A2 and review of phenotypic variability of ATP8A2-related disorders caused by missense changes”.

Mikayla M. Voglewede is first author on a paper in iScience, July 2024. “Loss of the polarity protein Par3 promotes dendritic spine neoteny and enhances learning and memory”.

Mihai Solotchi is first author on a paper in Biochemical Society Transactions, June 2024. “Proofreading mechanisms of the innate immune receptor RIG-I: distinguishing self and viral RNA”.

Arwa Gabr is first author on a paper, in Environmental Microbiology Reports, June 2024. “Evidence of a putative CO2 delivery system to the chromatophore in the photosynthetic amoeba Paulinella”.

Samuel A. Adeleye is first author on a paper in PLoS Genetics, May 2024. “Queuosine biosynthetic enzyme, QueE moonlights as a cell division regulator.”

Kiranmayi Vemuri is first author on a paper in Cell Reports, May 2024. “Dynamic RNA polymerase II occupancy drives differentiation of the intestine under the direction of HNF4.”

Kaiden M. Power is first author on a paper in The Journal of Cell Biology, May 2024. “NEKL-4 regulates microtubule stability and mitochondrial health in ciliated neurons.”

Alyssa Bellomo is first author on a paper in Toxicology and Applied Pharmacology, April 2024. “Identification of early events in nitrogen mustard pulmonary toxicity that are independent of infiltrating inflammatory cells using precision cut lung slices”.

Jake N. Siebert is first author on a paper in Pharmaceutics, April 2024. “Early Detection of Myeloid-Derived Suppressor Cells in the Lung Pre-Metastatic Niche by Shortwave Infrared Nanoprobes”.

Anna Fateeva is first author on a paper in Cancers, April 2024. “Current State of Melanoma Therapy and Next Steps: Battling Therapeutic Resistance.”

Inna A Nikonorova is first author on a paper in bioRXIV, April 2024. “Polycystins recruit cargo to distinct ciliary extracellular vesicle subtypes.”

Reem Alatrash was first author on a paper in Viruses, March 2024. “The Adaptive Immune Response against Bunyavirales.”

Eric J. Bryan is first author on a paper in Antibiotics, March 2024.” A FtsZ Inhibitor That Can Utilize Siderophore-Ferric Iron Uptake Transporter Systems for Activity against Gram-Negative Bacterial Pathogens.”

Smrithi Prem is first author on a paper in eLife, March 2024. “Dysregulation of mTOR signaling mediates common neurite and migration defects in both idiopathic and 16p11.2 deletion autism neural precursor cells.”

Jay N. Joshi is first author on a paper in bioRxiv; the preprint server for biology, February 2024. “mTORC1 activity oscillates throughout the cell cycle promoting mitotic entry and differentially influencing autophagy induction”.

Chelsea M. Cary is first author on a paper in Toxicological sciences: an official journal of the Society of Toxicology, February 2024. “Single pulmonary nanopolystyrene exposure in late-stage pregnancy dysregulates maternal and fetal cardiovascular function”.

Brittany F. Karas is first author on a paper in Human Molecular Genetics, January 2024. “Removal of pomt1 in zebrafish leads to loss of α-dystroglycan glycosylation and dystroglycanopathy phenotypes”.

Gabriel Villegas is first author on a paper in FEBS letters, December 2023. “DAYWAKE implicates novel roles for circulating lipid-binding proteins as extracerebral regulators of daytime wake-sleep behavior”.

Kate M. O’Neill is first author on a paper in Communications Biology, December 2023. “Time-dependent homeostatic mechanisms underlie brain-derived neurotrophic factor action on neural circuitry”.

Igor Ivanovski is first author on a paper in Journal of Microbiology, December 2023. “Genetic and Functional Characterization of a Salicylate 1-monooxygenase Located on an Integrative and Conjugative Element (ICE) in Pseudomonas stutzeri AJR13”.

Jessica E. Fellmeth is first author on a paper, PLoS Genetics, November 2023. “A dynamic population of prophase CENP-C is required for meiotic chromosome segregation”.

Bassel Ghaddar is first author on a paper, Bioinformatics, November 2023. “Hierarchical and automated cell-type annotation and inference of cancer cell of origin with Census.”

John S. Favate is first author on a paper, Elife, November 2023. “Linking genotypic and phenotypic changes in the E. coli long-term evolution experiment using metabolomics”.

Bahar Javdan is first author on a paper, Cutis, November 2023. “Nonhealing Ulcer in a Patient With Crohn Disease”.

Kiranmayi Vemuri is first author on a paper in bioRxiv, November 2023. “Dynamic RNA Polymerase II Recruitment Drives Differentiation of the Intestine under the direction of HNF4”.

Robert S. Rosen is first author on a paper in Scientific Reports, October 2023. “An in vitro model of the macrophage-endothelial interface to characterize CAR T-cell induced cytokine storm”.

Iva Salamon is first author on a paper in Nature Communications, September 2023. “Celf4 controls mRNA translation underlying synaptic development in the prenatal mammalian neocortex”.

Carolyn W. Kinkade is first author on a paper in Environmental Health, August 2023. “Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, gestational weight gain, postpartum weight retention and body composition in the UPSIDE cohort”.

Kiranmayi Vemuri is first author on a paper in Frontiers in Endocrinology, August 2023. “Multiple roles and regulatory mechanisms of the transcription factor HNF4 in the intestine.”

Gregory Marshall is first author on a paper in Cellular &Molecular Immunology, July 2023. “Mechanism-directed combinational immunotherapies in liver cancer hold promise.”

Matthew A. Lawlor is first author on a paper in Current Opinion in Genetics & Development, July 2023.  “Evolutionary dynamics between transposable elements and their host genomes: mechanisms of suppression and escape.”

Danielle Kozlosky is first author on a paper in Toxicology & Applied Pharmacology, July 2023. “Cadmium reduces growth of male fetuses by impairing development of the placental vasculature and reducing expression of nutrient transporters.”

Emma M. Schweitzer is first author on a paper in Psychology of Addictive Behaviors: journal of the Society of Psychologist in Addictive Behaviors, June 2023. “The role of social connection in opioid use disorder treatment engagement”.

Christen A. Khella is first author on a paper in Molecular Cancer Research: MCR, June 2023. “HCK promotes high-grade serous ovarian cancer tumorigenesis through CD44 and NOTCH3 signaling”.

Kevinn Eddy is first author on a paper in The Journal of Investigative Dermatology, March 2023. “A Spontaneous Melanoma Mouse Model Applicable for a Longitudinal Chemotherapy and Immunotherapy Study”.

Emily T. DiMartini is first author on a paper in Journal of Functional Biomaterials, March 2023. “Alternative Chemistries for Free Radical-Initiated Targeting and Immobilization”.

Justin Koesterich is first author on a paper in International Journal of Molecular Sciences, February 2023. “Characterization of De Novo Promoter Variants in Autism Spectrum Disorder with Massively Parallel Reporter Assays”.

Vrushank Bhatt is first author on a paper in Cell Death & Disease, January 2023. “Inhibition of autophagy and MEK promotes ferroptosis in Lkb1-deficient Kras-driven lung tumors.”

Benjamin Bates is first author on a paper in Circulation, Cardiovascular Quality & Outcomes, January 2023. “Validity of International Classification of Diseases (ICD)-10 Diagnosis Codes for Identification of Acute Heart Failure Hospitalization and Heart Failure with Reduced Versus Preserved Ejection Fraction in a National Medicare Sample.”

December 2021

Daniel Rizzolo is first author on a paper in Drug Metabolism and Disposition: the Biological Fate of Chemicals, December 2021. “Effects of Overexpression of Fibroblast Growth Factor 15/19 on Hepatic Drug Metabolizing Enzymes”.

Kiranmayi Vemuri was awarded an AHA pre doctoral fellowship “Mechanisms of Intestinal Lipid Metabolism as Therapeutic Targets for Diet-Induced Obesity”, December 2021.

Stephania Guzman was awarded an NIH F31 pre-doctoral fellowship  "Hepatic kisspeptin receptor signaling in nonalcoholic fatty liver", December 2021.

November 2021

Christian Moya Gamboa is first author on a paper in Cells, November 2021. “Optimized 3D Culture of Hepatic Cells for Liver Organoid Metabolic Assays”.

Michelle J. Frondelli is first author on a paper in Journal of Neuroscience Research, November 2021. “Oligodendrocyte progenitor proliferation is disinhibited following traumatic brain injury in leukemia inhibitory factor heterozygous mice.”

October 2021

Liam Turk is first author on a paper in Structure, October 2021. “The structure-function relationship of a signaling-competent, dimeric Reelin fragment”.

September 2021

Allison Murawski is first author on a paper in Methods of Molecular Biology, September 2021. “Counting Chromosomes in Individual Bacteria to Quantify Their Impacts on Persistence.”

July 2021

Tsui-Wen Chou is the first author on a paper in Cell Death & Disease, July 2021. “Fibrillar α-synuclein induces neurotoxic astrocyte activation via RIP kinase signaling and NF-κB”.

Tzeh K. Foo is the first author on a paper in Cancer Research, July 2021. “ATR/ATM-mediated phosphorylation of BRCA1 T1394 promotes homologous recombinational repair and G2/M checkpoint maintenance”.

Branden Sanabria was awarded an NIH F31 pre-doctoral fellowship "The Role of Corticostriatal Microcircuitry in Sensorimotor Integration”, July 2021.

Nimit Shah was awarded an NIH F31 pre-doctoral fellowship “Barriers and predictors of physical fitness among volunteer firefighters”, July 2021

Emily DiMartini was awarded an NJCCR pre-doctoral fellowship “A clickable drug targeting system for ovarian cancer”, July 2021

June 2021

Iva Salamon was awarded an NJ Governor’s Council on Autism pre-doctoral fellowship “The role of the autism risk gene Celf4 in the specification of the first synapses during early neocortical development”, June 2021.

Courtney McDermott was awarded an NJ Governor’s Council on Autism pre-doctoral fellowship “Early life microbiota dysbiosis and autism: effects on neurodevelopment and behavioral outcomes”, June 2021.

Agata Krzyzanowska was awarded an AAI Careers in Immunology Fellowship. "Identification, function and transcriptional control of innate-like Tregs”, June 2021.

Stephania Guzman was awarded the Bevier Fellowship for 2021-2022

Liana Schwartz-Orbach was awarded an NIH F30 pre-doctoral fellowship “The function of H3K23me3, a transgenerationally inherited heterochromatin mark”, June 2021

Svetlana Bagdasarov was awarded an NJCCR pre-doctoral fellowship “Ligand-directed alpha- galactosyltransferase gene therapy using hybrid AAV phage vector for antitumor immune response”, June 2021

Paul Kraycer was awarded an NJCCR pre-doctoral fellowship "The Role of Sliding in Cohesin Accumulation and Function on Chromosomes”, June 2021.

Rukia Henry was awarded an NJCCR pre-doctoral fellowship “Elucidating the Role of LYN Src Kinase in DNA Repair”, June 2021

May 2021

Adrienne Viola is the first author on a paper in Pediatric Blood & Cancer, May 2021. “A scoping review of transition interventions for young adults with sickle cell disease.”
 

Carolyn W. Kinkade is the first author on a paper in Toxins, May 2021. “Impact of Fusarium-Derived Mycoestrogens on Female Reproduction: A Systematic Review.”
 

Matthew Putnins is the first author on a paper in Heliyon, May 2021. “Self-selection of evolutionary strategies: adaptive versus non-adaptive forces.”
 

Emann M. Rabie is the first author on a paper in Molecular Biology of the Cell, May 2021. “Substratum stiffness signals through integrin-linked kinase and β1-integrin to regulate midbody proteins and abscission during EMT.”
 

Bitha Narayanan is the first author of a paper in the Journal of Immunology, May 2021. “A Posttranscriptional Pathway of CD40 Ligand mRNA Stability Is Required for the Development of an Optimal Humoral Immune Response.”
 

Edgar Ferrer-González is the first author on a paper in the Journal of Bacteriology, May 2021. “Impact of FtsZ Inhibition on the Localization of the Penicillin Binding Proteins in Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus.”

March 2021

Thushara Nethramangalath was awarded an AHA pre-doctoral fellowship "Role of the TRPM7-CNNM Complex in Regulating Neuronal I(OGD) Activity During Ischemia", March 2021.

Mikayla Voglewede was awarded a National Institute of Health Predoctoral Fellowship for "Mechanism of Par3-Mediated Regulation of Dendritic Spine Plasticity" in March 2021.

February 2021

Kevinn Eddy is the first author on a paper in Frontiers in Oncology, February 2021. “Decoding Melanoma Development and Progression: Identification of Therapeutic Vulnerabilities”.
 

Juan Carlos Collantes is the first author of a paper in The CRISPR Journal, February 2021. “Development and Characterization of a Modular CRISPR and RNA Aptamer Mediated Base Editing System.”
 

Sriram Aiyer is the first author on a paper in Structure, February 2021. “A common binding motif in the ET domain of BRD3 forms polymorphic structural interfaces with host and viral proteins”.
 

Andrew Dieterich is the first author on a paper in Translational Psychiatry, February 2021. “Chronic non-discriminatory social defeat stress reduces effort-related motivated behaviors in male and female mice”.
 

Maryam Honarbakhsh is the first author of a paper in the Journal of Lipid Research, February 2021. “Impact of vitamin A transport and storage on intestinal retinoid homeostasis and functions”.
 

Tiffany R. King is first author on a paper in Developmental Dynamics, February 2021. “Enabled/VASP is required to mediate proper sealing of opposing cardioblasts during Drosophila dorsal vessel formation.”

January 2021

Emann M. Rabie is first author on a paper in Integrative Biology, January 2021. “Matrix degradation and cell proliferation are coupled to promote invasion and escape from an engineered human breast microtumor.”
 

Urmimala Basu is first author on a paper in The Journal of Biological Chemistry, January 2021. “Structure, mechanism, and regulation of mitochondrial DNA transcription initiation”.
 

Kevinn Eddy is first author on a paper in International Journal of Molecular Sciences, January, 2021. “Overcoming Immune Evasion in Melanoma”.

December 2020

Alex Yonk was awarded a National Institutes of Health Predoctoral Fellowship for "POm and Its Role In Striatal Circuitry Modulation" in December 2020.

Thomas Pisano is first author on a paper in MedEdPortal, December 2020. “The Bloody Board Game: A Game-Based Approach for Learning High-Value Care Principles in the Setting of Anemia Diagnosis”.

Matthew Kraushar is first author on a paper in Molecular Cell, December 2020. “Protein Synthesis in the Developing Neocortex at Near-Atomic Resolution Reveals Ebp1-Mediated Neuronal Proteostasis at the 60S Tunnel Exit”.

November 2020

Sabrina Walley is first author on a paper in Journal of Applied Toxicology, November 2020. “Maternal organophosphate flame-retardant exposure alters offspring feeding, locomotor and exploratory behaviors in a sexually dimorphic manner in mice”

Kevinn Eddy is first author on a paper in the International Journal of Molecular Sciences, November 2020. “Overcoming Immune Evasion in Melanoma”

Hamidah Raduwan is the first author on a paper in Biology Open, November 2020. “RhoGAP RGA-8 supports  in C. elegans by polarizing epithelia”

Rahul Upadhya is first author on a paper in Advanced Drug Delivery Reviews, November 2020. “Automation and data-driven design of polymer therapeutics”

October 2020

Vrushank Bhatt was awarded a Mistletoe Research Fellowship in October 2020.

Urmimala Basu is first author on paper in the Journal of Biological Chemistry, October 2020. “Structure, mechanism, and regulation of mitochondrial DNA transcription initiation.”
 

Brittany F. Karas is firth author on a paper in Aquatic Toxicology, October 2020. “Cisplatin alkylating activity in zebrafish causes resistance to chorionic degradation and inhibition of osteogenesis.”

Vrushank Bhatt is presenting at ASPET Annual meeting Wednesday, November 18, 2020. “Autophagy Inhibition Sensitizes Liver Kinase B1 (LKB1)-Deficient Kras-Driven Lung Tumors to MEK Inhibitor Trametinib”.

September 2020

Gina Castellano is first author on a paper in Translational Lung Cancer Research, September 2020. “Liquid biopsies in non-small cell lung cancer management: what can we learn from methylation status and mutant allele frequencies?”

Ludwik Gorczyca is first author on a paper in FEBS Letters, September 2020. “Low Oxygen Tension Differentially Regulates the Expression of Placental Solute Carriers and ABC Transporters.”

Sabrina Walley is first author on a paper in Journal of Applied Toxicology, September 2020. “Maternal organophosphate flame-retardant exposure alters offspring energy and glucose homeostasis in a sexually dimorphic manner in mice.”

Gwyndolin Vail is first author on a paper in Endocrinology, September 2020. “Organophosphate flame retardants excite arcuate melanocortin circuitry and increase neuronal sensitivity to ghrelin in adult mice.”

August 2020

Andrew Dieterich is first author on a paper in Journal of Visualized Experiments, August 2020. “Chronic Stress Shifts Effort-Related Choice Behavior in a Y-Maze Barrier Task in Mice.”

Faculty, Staff and the Graduating Class of the

School of Graduate Studies-BHS 

request the pleasure of your company at 

The Virtual Convocation

Saturday, June 6, 2020

at 10:00 AM EDT

https://livestream.com/rutgersitv/sgs2020

June 2020

Sierra Swords was awarded a National Institutes of Health Predoctoral Fellowship for "The Role of RME-8 In Neuronal Health And Parkinson's Disease" in June 2020.

Mai-uyen Nguyen was awarded a National Institutes of Health Predoctoral Fellowship for “Functions of KAT2A And KAT2B In Intestinal Homeostasis And Colon Cancer” in June 2020.

Valentina Dal Pozzo is first author on a paper in Biomolecules, June 2020. “Reduced Reelin Expression in the Hippocampus After Traumatic Brain Injury.”
 

Smrithi Prem is first author on a paper in Advances in Neurobiology, June 2020. “Dysregulation of Neurite Outgrowth and Cell Migration in Autism and Other Neurodevelopmental Disorders.”
 

Luka Turkalj is first author on a paper in Advances in Neruobiology, June 2020. “Using iPSC-Based Models to Understand the Signaling and Cellular Phenotypes in Idiopathic Autism and 16p11.2 Derived Neurons.”

May 2020

Pauline Krzyszczyk is first author on a paper in Wound Repair Regeneration, May 2020. “Anti-inflammatory effects of haptoglobin on LPS-stimulated macrophages: Role of HMGB1 signaling and implications in chronic wound healing.”

Yang Yang is first author on a paper in Autophagy, May 2020. “Autophagy suppresses TRP53/p53 and oxidative stress to enable mammalian survival.”
 

Eric Huselid is first author on a paper in Genes, May 2020. “The Regulation of Homologous Recombination by Helicases.”

Urmi Basu is first author on a paper in Journal of Biological Chemistry, May 2020. “The C-terminal tails of the mitochondrial transcription factors Mtf1 and TFB2M are part of an autoinhibitory mechanism that regulates DNA binding.”

April 2020

Yuanchao Zhang is first author on a paper in PLoS Computational Biology, April 2020. “Scedar: A scalable Python package for single-cell RNA-seq exploratory data analysis.”
 

Andrew Dieterich is first author on a paper in Psychopharmacology, April 2020. “Chronic corticosterone shifts effort-related choice behavior in male mice.”
 

Olufunmilola Ibironke is first author on a paper in GigaScience, April 2020. “Species-level evaluation of the human respiratory microbiome.”
 

Josh Leipheimer is first author on a paper in Technology (Singap World Science), April 2020. “First-in-human evaluation of a hand-held automated venipuncture device for rapid venous blood draws.”

March 2020

Kristine Conde was awarded a University and Louis Bevier Dissertation Completion Fellowship for "17b-Estradiol Enhances KNDy Neuronal Sensitivity To Ghrelin To Alter Reproduction, Energy Balance, and Thermoregulation In Females” in March 2020.

Tatiana Popovitchenko is first author on a paper in Nature Communications, March 2020. “Translational derepression of Elavl4 isoforms at their alternative 5' UTRs determines neuronal development.”

Urmi Basu is first author on a paper in the Journal of Biological Chemistry, March 2020. “The C-terminal tails of the mitochondrial transcription factors Mtf1 and TFB2M are part of an auto-inhibitory mechanism that regulates DNA binding.”
 

Dahea You is first author on a paper in Drug Metabolism and Disposition: the biological fate of chemicals,  March 2020. “Epigenetic Regulation of MDR1 and BCRP Transporters by HDAC Inhibition.”
 

Yang Yang is first author on a paper in Genes and Development, March, 2020. “Autophagy promotes mammalian survival by suppressing oxidative stress and p53.”

February 2020

Ludwik Gorczyca is first author on a paper in Expert Opinion on Drug Metabolism and Toxicology, February 2020. “Transcription factor-mediated regulation of the BCRP/ABCG2 efflux transporter: a review across tissues and species.”
 

Joseph Fantuzzo is first author on a paper in Lab on a Chip, February 2020. “Development of a high-throughput arrayed neural circuitry platform using human induced neurons for drug screening applications.”

January 2020

Nisha Singh was awarded the State of New Jersey Commission on Spinal Cord Research Fellowship for "Role of Guanine-Based Purines After SCI" in January 2020.

Mai-uyen Nguyen was awarded NJ Commission on Cancer Research pre-doctoral fellowship “Functions of KAT2A and KAT2B in mediating histone post-translational modifications in colon cancer”..

Yanira Gonzalez-Rodriguez was awarded NJ Commission on Cancer Research Predoctoral Fellowship for "Regulation of DNA Repair and Cell Cycle Checkpoints by BRCA1 and BLM" in January 2020.

Christen Khella was awarded NJ Commission on Cancer Research Predoctoral Fellowship for "HCK Is A Novel Oncogenic Driver Of Tumorigenesis In Poor Prognostic High-Grade Serous" in January 2020.

Victor Tan was awarded NJ Commission on Cancer Research Predoctoral Fellowship for "Application Of Rutgers CRISPR Base Editing Technology To Increase Bone Marrow Matching For Treatment of Leukemia" in January 2020.

Talia Planas-Fontánez is first author on a paper in Neurochemical Research, January 2020. “Reactive Astrocytes as Therapeutic Targets for Brain Degenerative Diseases: Roles Played by Metabotropic Glutamate Receptors.”
 

Urmimala Basu is first author on a paper in Nucleic Acids Research, January 2020. “The C-terminal tail of the yeast mitochondrial transcription factor Mtf1 coordinates template strand alignment, DNA scrunching and timely transition into elongation.”
 

Stephania Guzman is first author on a paper in Seminars in Reproductive Medicine, January 2020. “KISS1/KISS1R and Breast Cancer: Metastasis Promoter.”

December 2019

Madison Godesky is first author on a paper in Biointerphase, December 2019. “Hyaluronic acid-based hydrogels with independently tunable mechanical and bioactive signaling features.”

Edgar Ferrer-González is first author on a paper in Scientific Reports, December 2019. “Structure-Guided Design of a Fluorescent Probe for the Visualization of FtsZ in Clinically Important Gram-Positive and Gram-Negative Bacterial Pathogens.”

Ekaterina Nizovtseva is first author on a paper in Molekuliarnaia Biologii (Mosk), December 2019. “Opposite Effects of Histone H1 and HMGN5 Protein on Distant Interactions in Chromatin.”

Adrienne Viola is first author on a paper in Current Opinion and Supportive Palliat Care, December 2019. “Digital interventions for adolescent and young adult cancer survivors.”

November 2019

Jui Wan Loh is first author on a paper in Bioinformatics, November 2019. “All-FIT: Allele-Frequency-based Imputation of Tumor Purity from High-Depth Sequencing Data.”

Anton Omelchenko is first author on a paper in Current Biology, November 2019. “Axonal Development: RhoA Restrains but Does Not Specify.”
 

Olufunmilola Ibironke is first author on a paper in International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, November 2019. “Urban Air Pollution Particulates Suppress Human T-Cell Responses to Mycobacterium Tuberculosis.”

Congratulations to the Molecular Biosciences Graduate Student Organization Annual Symposium 2019 winners

Poster presentations: 1st: Brandon Schweibenz, 2nd: Jeffrey Yang, 3rd: Jennifer Schaefer

Oral presentations: 1st: Juliet Gardiner, 2nd: Agata Krzyzanowska, 3rd: Lauren Chukrallah

September 2019

Breann Coffaro was awarded the Air Pollution Educational and Research Grant  "Ozone Reactions with Squalene: Particle Formation and Chemical Identification” in September 2019.

Anton Omelchenko is first author on a paper in Cell Death & Disease, September 2019. “Dynamin and reverse-mode sodium calcium exchanger blockade confers neuroprotection from diffuse axonal injury.”

Material from Grant and Fellowship Application Workshop Sept 11, 2019

         List of biomedical grants from GradFund

         GradFund presentation slides

         Slides regarding review process for F31 Fellowships

Congratulations to the Aaron Shatkin Scholarship winners for 2019

 Vrushank Bhatt - Microbiology and Molecular Genetics program in the lab of Jessie Guo
Alejandra S. Laureano - Cell and Developmental Biology program in the lab of Kelvin Kwan
Valdir Barth - Microbiology and Molecular Genetics program in the lab of Nancy Woychik
Kelvin Kwan - Associate Professor, Department of Cell Biology and Neuroscience
Jim Millonig - Senior Associate Dean of School of Graduate Studies

August 2019
 

Slides for Orientation for PhD and MS students 2019

Overview slides about Biomedical Graduate School

Library slides

Scientific research integrity slides

Career Services slides
Mental Health Services slides

Graduate Student Organization slides

Welcome to the PhD and MS entering class of 2019

Inna Nikonorova is first author on a paper in The Journal of Biological Chemistry, August 2019. “Age modulates liver responses to asparaginase-induced amino acid stress in mice.”

Alexandra Burr is first author on a paper in Journal of Translational Medicine, August 2019. “Kinetics of MSC-based enzyme therapy for immunoregulation.”

July 2019

Jeanine D’Errico is first author on a paper in Biomedicine and Pharmacotherapy, July 2019. “Identification and quantification of gold engineered nanomaterials and impaired fluid transfer across the rat placenta via ex vivo perfusion.”

June 2019

Gina Castellano is first author on a paper in Journal of Thoracic Oncology, June 2019. “A Novel Acquired Exon 20 EGFR M766Q Mutation in Lung Adenocarcinoma Mediates Osimertinib Resistance but is Sensitive to Neratinib and Poziotinib: a Brief Report.”
 

Jeanine D’Errico is first author on a paper in Journal of Visualized Experiments (JoVE), June 2019. “Ex Vivo Perfusion of the Rodent Placenta.”
 

Yanira Gonzalez-Rodriguez is first author on a paper in The Journal of Cell Biology, June 2019. “XLF extends its range from DNA repair to replication.”

May 2019

MD/PhD Student Receives Fulbright Grant

Anna Giarratana, an MD/PhD candidate who in May received her PhD in neuroscience, was awarded a fulbright grant for Interdisciplinary Studies in Switzerland. She plans to use her Fulbright grant for a year of post-doctoral research at the University of Zurich.

Specifically, she will be working with Phillipe Tobler, PhD, associate professor of neuroeconomics and social economics at the Zurich Center for Neuroeconomics, using state-of-the-art brain imaging techniques and neuroeconomic methods to investigate human decision-making in disease states. She plans to investigate the brain functioning of healthy individuals who have schizotypal personality traits, using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) in conjunction with sensorimotor and reward-adaptation tasks. The research is designed to help advance understanding of the spectrum of mental illness and help pinpoint the regions of the brain responsible for deficits, as well as identify novel therapeutic targets.

Grant writing workshop May 2019

       To see the slides, click here

Praveen Bommareddy is first author on a paper in Journal of Biological Methods, May 2019. “Multi-parametric flow cytometry staining procedure for analyzing tumor-infiltrating immune cells following oncolytic herpes simplex virus immunotherapy in intracranial glioblastoma.”

Nofar Engelhard was awarded a State of New Jersey Commission on Spinal Cord Research fellowship "Characterizing a novel spinal cord population: role in both locomotive control and recovery from spinal cord injury" in May 2019.

April 2019

Anton Omelchenko was awarded a New Jersey Commission on Brain Injury Research Predoctoral Fellowship “Exosome-based Delivery of RNAi Therapeutics to Target Traumatic Brain Injury” in April 2019.

Valdir Cristovao Barth Junior was awarded a University and Louis Bevier Dissertation Completion Fellowship  "Reprogramming of Mycobacterium tuberculosis physiology through toxin-mediated ribosome stalling" in April 2019.
 

Alison Acevedo is first author on a paper in Gene Regulation and Systems Biology, April 2019. “Pathway-Based Analysis of the Liver Response to Intravenous Methylprednisolone Administration in Rats: Acute Versus Chronic Dosing.”

Ian Bezar is first author on a paper in Scientific Reports, April 2019, “Drug-like Fragments Inhibit agr-Mediated Virulence Expression in Staphylococcus aureus.”

March 2019
 

Anna Giarratana has been awarded a prestigious Fulbright Fellowship to study in Switzerland for one year in March 2019.
 

Cosmas Mwikirize is first author on a paper in The International Journal of Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery, March 2019. “Learning needle tip localization from digital subtraction in 2D ultrasound.”
 

Praveen Bommareddy is first author on a paper in Oncoimmunology, March 2019, “Triple threat to cancer: rationale for combining oncolytic viruses, MEK inhibitors, and immune checkpoint blockade.”
 

Caroline Pantazis is first author on a paper in Addiction Biology, March 2019. “Lateral septum inhibition reduces motivation for cocaine: Reversal by diazepam.”

Anna Giarratana has been awarded a prestigious Fulbright Fellowship to study in Switzerland for one year in March 2019

Mark Presker was awarded an NIH F31 fellowship"Stimulus control of attention in cocaine addiction: role of locus coeruleus".

Kevinn Eddy was awarded a NJ Commission on Cancer Research pre-dcotoral fellowship " Preclinical Study Using Trigriluzole and anti-PD-1 in a Spontaneous Transgenic Melanoma Prone Mouse-Model" in March 2019.
 

Juliet Gardiner was awarded an NJ Commission on Cancer Research Pre-Doctoral fellowship for "Tissue-Specific Tumorigenesis in Multiple Endocrine Neoplasia Type I" in March 2019.

February 2019

Vrushank Bhatt was awarded a NJ Comission on Cancer Research pre-dcotoral fellowship"Targeting autophagy to improve the efficacy of immunotherapy in Liver Kinase B1 (LKB1)-deficient Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer (NSCLC)" in February 2019.

Paul Fourounjian is first author on a paper in The Plant Journal: for Cell and molecular Biology, February 2019. “Post-transcriptional adaptation of the aquatic plant Spirodela polyrhiza under stress and hormonal stimuli.”

Christopher Lowe is first author on a paper in Journal of Drug Targeting, February 2019. “Free Radical Mediated Targeting and Immobilization of Coupled Payloads.”

January 2019

Vrushank Bhatt is first author on a paper in Genes & Development, January 2019. “Autophagy modulates lipid metabolism to maintain metabolic flexibility for Lkb1-deficient Kras-driven lung tumorigenesis.”

Kate Annunziato is first author on a paper in Aquatic Toxicology, January 2019. “Subtle morphometric, behavioral and gene expression effects in larval zebrafish exposed to PFHxA, PFHxS and 6:2 FTOH.”

December 2018

John Szilagyi is first author on a paper in Pharmacological Research, December 2018. “Anandamide down-regulates placental transporter expression through CB2 receptor-mediated inhibition of cAMP synthesis.”
 

Jeanine D’Errico is first author on a paper in Microcirculation, December 2018. “Developmental Onset of Cardiovascular Disease - Could the Proof be in the Placenta?”
 

John Szilagyi is first author on a paper in Toxicological Science, December 2018. “Placental BCRP/ABCG2 transporter prevents fetal exposure to the estrogenic mycotoxin zearalenone.”
 

Praveen Bommareddy is first author on a paper in Science Translational Medicine, December 2018. “MEK inhibition enhances oncolytic virus immunotherapy through increased tumor cell killing and T cell activation.”

Bhavna Paratala is first author on a paper in Nature Communications, November 2018.  “RET rearrangements are actionable alterations in breast cancer.”

November 2018

Daniel Browe is first author on a paper in Journal of Biomedial Material Research, October 2018.  “Optimizing C2C12 myoblast differentiation using polycaprolactone-polypyrrole copolymer scaffolds.”

Matthew Scarnati is first author on a paper in eLife, October 2018.  “Active presynaptic ribosomes in the mammalian brain, and altered transmitter release after protein synthesis inhibition.”

Congratulations to the Aaron Shatkin Scholarship winners for 2018
 

October 2018

Bhavna Paratala - Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology program in the lab of Kim Hirshfield
Ileana Marrero-Berrios - Biomedical Engineering program in the lab of Martin Yarmush
Cosmas Mwikirize - Biomedical Engineering program in the lab of Ilker Hacihaliloglu
Jim Millonig - Senior Associate Dean of School of Graduate Studies

September 2018

John Szilagyi is first author on a paper in Toxicology and Applied Pharmacology, September 2018.  “Quinone and nitrofurantoin redox cycling by recombinant cytochrome b5 reductase.”

Grace Ibitamuno is first author on a paper in Journal of Cancer Education, September 2018.  “To Care and to Provide Care."
 

Fellowship application workshop September 2018

       To see the slides and list of grants for biomedical PhD students, click here

August 2018

Welcome to the PhD and MS entering class of 2018

Slides for Orientation for PhD and MS students 2018

Overview slides about Biomedical Graduate School

Institute for Quantiative Biomedicine

Library slides

Scientific research integrity slides

Career Services slides

Office of Disability Services slides

Graduate Student Organization slides

Avery Zucco is first author on a paper in Molecular and Cellular Neurosciences, August 2018. “Neural progenitors derived from Tuberous Sclerosis Complex patients exhibit attenuated PI3K/AKT signaling and delayed neuronal differentiation.”

Larry Cheng is first author on a paper in Journal of Visualized Experiments, August 2018. “Phosphopeptide Enrichment Coupled with Label-free Quantitative Mass Spectrometry to Investigate the Phosphoproteome in Prostate Cancer.”

Stephania Guzman is first author on a paper in Frontiers in Endocrinology, August 2018. “KISS1/KISS1R in Cancer: Friend or Foe?”

Joseph Fantuzzo is first author on a paper in Developmental Dynamics, August 2018. “Compartmentalized devices as tools for investigation of human brain network dynamics.”

Stephanie Oh is first author on a paper in Redox Biology, August 2018. “The Parkinson's disease gene product DJ-1 modulates miR-221 to promote neuronal survival against oxidative stress.”

July 2018

Heather McGowan is first author on a paper in Frontiers in Synaptic Neuroscience, July 2018. “hsa-let-7c miRNA Regulates Synaptic and Neuronal Function in Human Neurons.”

Samuel Kogan is first author on a paper in Wounds, July 2018. “Amniotic Membrane Adjuncts and Clinical Applications in Wound Healing: A Review of the Literature.”

Przemyslaw Swiatkowski is first author on a paper in Neurobiology of Disease, July 2018. “Cypin: A novel target for traumatic brain injury.”
 

Ludwik Gorczyca was awarded an NIH F31 fellowship " Mycoestrogen Disposition and Activity in the Placenta"in July 2018.

Awards and Internships

Praveen Bommrareddy did an internship at Regeneron in the summer of 2018

Victor Tan did an internship at Celgene in the summer of 2018.

Jenna Newman did an internship at Cellularity in the summer of 2018.

Liam Turk did an internship at Aleon Pharma in the summer of 2018.

Larry Cheng did an internship at Defined Health in the summer of 2018.

Caroline Pantazis has been awarded an Eagleton Institute of Politics Fellowship in May 2018 and was also selected to participate in AAAS Catalyzing Advocacy in Science and Engineering in Febrauary 2018.

June 2018

Praveen Bommareddy is first author on a paper in Nature Reviews Immunology, June 2018. “Integrating oncolytic viruses in combination cancer immunotherapy.”

Praveen Bommareddy has been selected to the list of 30 young emerging leaders in Cancer Immunotherapy by the Society of Immunotherapy in Cancer (SITC) and will participate in the Sparkathon.

Bitha Narayanan received the Victor Stollar Fellowship in 2018.
 

May 2018

Congratulations to Perry Dominguez and Larry Stromberg for winning the Excellence in Student Support Awards from The School of Graduate Studies in May 2018

Congratulations to Alexandra Nguyen for winning the first Harvey Waterman Medal of Excellence and to Jacqueline Katz for winning the Outstanding Master's Student Award in May 2018

Sam Kogan is first author on a paper in Cancers, May 2018. “Zinc Metallochaperones as Mutant p53 Reactivators: A New Paradigm in Cancer Therapeutics.”
 

Pauline Krzyszczyk is first author on a paper in Frontiers in Physiology, May 2018. “The Role of Macrophages in Acute and Chronic Wound Healing and Interventions to Promote Pro-wound Healing Phenotypes.”

Loh Jui Wan was awarded a NJ Comission on Cancer Research pre-dcotoral fellowship "Investigating Clonal Dynamics of Chronic Llymphocytic Leukemia under Targeted Gene-Specific Therapy" in May 2018.

Unnati Chauhan was awarded a NJ Commission on Cancer Research pre-doctoral fellowship "New tRNAses for Cancer Treatment" in May 2018. 

March 2018

Yang Yang is first author on a paper in The AAPS Journal, March 2018. “Fucoxanthin Elicits Epigenetic Modifications, Nrf2 Activation and Blocking Transformation in Mouse Skin JB6 P+ Cells.”

Kirsten Svane is first author on a paper in Molecular and Cellular Neurosciences, March 2018. “d-Serine administration affects nitric oxide synthase 1 adaptor protein and DISC1 expression in sex-specific manner.”

Congratulations to the 2018 Graduate Student Symposium presentation winners

Oral Presentations:
First place: Juan-Carlos Collantes
Second place: Cosmas Mwikirize
Second place: Jenna Newman

Posters:
First place: Anna Giarratana
Second place: Larry Cheng
Second place: Praveen Bommareddy

February 2018
 

Michele Patrizii is first author on a paper in Frontiers in Oncology, February 2018.  “Utility of Glioblastoma Patient-Derived Orthotopic Xenografts in Drug Discovery and Personalized Therapy.”
 

Kamau Pierre is first author on a paper in Endocrinology, February 2018. “Modeling the Influence of Seasonal Differences in the HPA Axis on Synchronization of the Circadian Clock and Cell Cycle.”

January 2018

Daniel Grisham is first author on a paper in Proteins, January 2018. “Hydrodynamic radius coincides with the slip plane position in the electrokinetic behavior of lysozyme.”
 

Meghan Arnold is first author on a paper in BMC Biology, January 2018. “Q&A: Trash talk: disposal and remote degradation of neuronal garbage.”
 

Graham Vail is first author on a paper in Steroids, January 2018. “Membrane-initiated estrogen signaling via Gq-coupled GPCR in the central nervous system.”
 

Chetan Rane is first author on a paper in Seminars in Cancer Biology, January 2018. “P21 activated kinase signaling in cancer.”

December 2017

Christina Ramirez is first author on a paper in the AAPS Journal, December 2017. “In Vitro-In Vivo Dose-Response of Ursolic Acid, Sulforaphane, PEITC, and Curcumin in Cancer Prevention.”
 

Blessy George is first author on a paper in Experimental Biology and Medicine, December 2017. “Urinary protein biomarkers of kidney injury in patients receiving cisplatin chemotherapy.”

November 2017

Stephanie Oh is first author on a paper in Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology, November 2017. “Regulation of Signal Transduction by DJ-1.”

Congratulations to the Phase 3 iJOBS trainees for 2017 who received their certificate of attestation

Nathaly Salazar-Vasquez, Liping Lou, Xiaowei Zang, Prerna Nepali, Samar Alselehdar

(not pictured Canan Casikara, Rucha Shah, Fanfan Wu and Jiaxin Sun).  Presented on November 15, 2017

Congratulations to the Aaron Shatkin Scholarship winners for 2017

The winners were Apoorva Halikere from Zhiping Pang's lab, Yuanwang Pan from Ken Irvine's lab, Na Cai from Loren Runnels' lab, and Ilija Melentijevic from Monica Driscoll's lab.  Presented on November 14, 2017.

October 2017

How to Peer Review a Scientific Paper Oct 23, 2017

Slides from presentation

Chetan Rane is first author on a paper in Genomics, October 2017. “Decrypting the PAK4 transcriptome profile in mammary tumor forming cells using Next Generation Sequencing.”

Jose Planta is first author on a paper in Genetics, October 2017. “Quality Protein Maize Based on Reducing Sulfur in Leaf Cells.”

September 2017

Yuhan Zhao was awarded an F99 fellowship "The regulation of mutant p53 protein accumulation and GOF activity in tumors" in September 2017.

Ilija Melentijevic was awarded an NIH F31 fellowship "Dissecting Molecular Mechanisms Devoted to Neuronal Extrusion of Aggregated
Neurotoxic Proteins"in September 2017.
 

Stephanie Oh is first author on a paper in Redox Biology, September 2017. “Cytoprotective mechanisms of DJ-1 against oxidative stress through modulating ERK1/2 and ASK1 signal transduction.”

Kamau Pierre is first author on a paper in the Journal of Biological Rhythms, September 2017. “The Hepato-Hypothalamic-Pituitary-Adrenal-Renal Axis: Mathematical Modeling of Cortisol's Production, Metabolism, and Seasonal Variation.”

Mark Pinkerton is first author on a paper in Methods in Molecular Biology, September 2017. “In Vitro Translation Assays for Selenocysteine Insertion.”
 

Dharm Patel is first author on a paper in Journal of Cell Biology, September 2017. “BLM helicase regulates DNA repair by counteracting RAD51 loading at DNA double-strand break sites.”

Welcome to the MS and PhD Students Entering Class 2017

Matt Kraushar, an MD/PhD candidate has been awarded two grants as a principal investigator. Dr. Kraushar's studies will be conducted at Charité - Universitätsmedizin, Berlin, Germany, as part of his European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO) Postdoctoral Fellowship. 

Mary Beth Bird, an MD/PhD candidate was awarded the Bigel Fellowship from the Department of Anthropology and the Graduate Enhancement Grant from the Center for African Studies, both at Rutgers, to continue her research on women and HIV/AIDS in Lesotho, Africa, during a summer fellowship.
 

Material from Grant Application Workshop Sept 11, 2017

List of grants from GradFund

GradFund brochure
Slides regarding review process for F fellowships

August 2017

Orientation for PhD and MS students 2017 slides Aug 30

Overview slides about Biomedical Graduate School

Library slides

Scientific research integrity slides

Career Services slides

Sara Duncan is first author on a paper in Indoor Air, August 2017. “Oxygenated VOCs, aqueous chemistry, and potential impacts on residential indoor air composition.”

July 2017

Jinhee Park is first author on a paper in Methods in Molecular Biology, July 2017. "In Vitro Modulation of Endogenous Alternative Splicing Using Splice-Switching Antisense Oligonucleotides."

Michele Patrizii was awarded an NIH F31 fellowship "Proteasomal regulations of BMI-1 and impact on tumor initiating cells in glioblastoma" in July 2017.

Message from the Deans

To the Members of Our Graduate School Communities:

Today, the Rutgers Board of Governors approved the merger of the Graduate School-New Brunswick and the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences. As of July 1, 2017, these two schools will merge to become the new School of Graduate Studies, an administrative unit that will serve over 5,000 students enrolled in 63 doctoral and 75 master’s programs spread across New Brunswick, Newark, and Piscataway.

This merger represents the culmination of a process that began in 2013 with the integration of Rutgers University and the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey. It offers us a unique opportunity to combine our staff and consolidate our resources, to build support for interdisciplinary initiatives and collaborations, and to assist our students as they complete their graduate programs and prepare for professional careers.

More importantly, it allows us to better serve the members of our communities by addressing more directly the challenges facing graduate education in the 21^st century. Amidst rapidly changing labor markets, there are fewer tenure-track job opportunities. However, the demand for highly-trained professionals with advanced degrees has never been greater, affording our students a broad range of career paths on which to embark following their training.

With the creation of the School of Graduate Studies, we will be as committed as ever to the rigorous graduate training that has made Rutgers one of this nation’s leading research universities. We will anticipate the future needs of our students in order to help them thrive in a global economy where success depends on their cultivation of wide-ranging skill sets, and we will take advantage of the broad and deep expertise of our graduate faculty to develop a more interdisciplinary approach to graduate education.

Providing administrative oversight for nearly 140 graduate programs, we will continue to partner with our faculty and staff in order to train Rutgers students to think critically, to write effectively, and to work independently. We will also look for ways to build new innovative programs that will better prepare our students as they transition from graduate classrooms and labs into increasingly competitive labor markets.

Like its predecessors, the School of Graduate Studies will exist to foster new ideas and create new knowledge. With our new, integrated school, we are determined to be at the forefront of graduate education, and we are excited to serve our students, faculty, and staff in this new capacity.

Sincerely,

Jerome J. Kukor, Ph.D.
Dean, Graduate School - New Brunswick
Future Dean of the School of Graduate Studies

Kathleen W. Scotto, Ph.D.
Dean, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences
Future Vice Dean of the School of Graduate Studies

To learn more about the creation of the School of Graduate Studies, read the Rutgers Today news release.

June 2017

Edgar Ferrer-Gonzalez is first author on a paper in Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, June 2017. “β-Lactam Antibiotics with a High Affinity for PBP2 Act Synergistically with the FtsZ-Targeting Agent TXA707 against Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus.”

May 2017

Ileanna Marrero-Berrios had an internship at Celgene for the summer of 2017

Sonia Yevick had an internship at Eniware, LLC for the summer of 2017

Fei Wang had an internship in the INSIGHT Data Science Fellowship Program for the summer of 2017

Xiaowei Zhang had an internship at CSL Behring in the Clinical Pharmacology & Pharmacometrics 

May 2017

Daniel Sharp is first author on a paper in Biomedicines, August 2016. ”Recombinant Poxvirus and the Tumor Microenvironment: Oncolysis, Immune Regulation and Immunization.”
 

Przemyslaw Swiatkowski is first author on a paper in Scientific Reports, May 2017. “Role of Akt-independent mTORC1 and GSK3β signaling in sublethal NMDA-induced injury and the recovery of neuronal electrophysiology and survival.”

Congratulations to the 2017 graduates and award winners (starting third from right to left):

Stephanie Eunjung Oh - GSBS - New Brunswick/Piscataway Outstanding Teaching and Service Award

Katherine Morgan - Stanley S. Bergen, Jr., MD Medal of Excellence

Heather McGowan - GSBS - New Brunswick/Piscataway Dissertation Excellence Award

April 2017

Steven Huhn is first author on a paper in Oncogene, April 2017. ”Regulation of spindle integrity and mitotic fidelity by BCCIP”

March 2017

Sam Kogan received a NJCCR pre-doctoral fellowship entitled "The Role of Cellular Zinc Ion Homeostasis in the Mechanism of Zinc Metallochaperones as Mutant p53 Targeted Anti-Cancer Drugs” in March 2017

Tzeh Keong Foo is first author on a paper in Oncogene, March 2017. “Compromised BRCA1-PALB2 interaction is associated with breast cancer risk”

Husam Al-Hraishawi is first author on a paper in Endocrine Research, March 2017. “Intact parathyroid hormone levels and primary hyperparathyroidism.”

Congratulations to the Graduate Student Symposium Award Winners

The Joint Molecular Biosciences Graduate Student Association held its 11th annual symposium on March 24 and the winners for best poster include Urmimala Basu and Anna Giarratana.  The winner of the best oral presentation was Alexandra Nguyen. 

February 2017

Na Cai is first author on a paper in Scientific Reports, Feb 2017.  “Mass Spectrometric Analysis of TRPM6 and TRPM7 Phosphorylation Reveals Regulatory Mechanisms of the Channel-Kinases.”
 

Larry Cheng is first author on a paper in Clinical Translation Medicine, February 2017.  “Integrating phosphoproteomics into the clinical management of prostate cancer.”
 

Daniel Sharp is first author on a paper in Biomedicines, February 2017.  “Recombinant Poxvirus and the Tumor Microenvironment: Oncolysis, Immune Regulation and Immunization.”

January 2017

Sarah Misenko received an Executive Women of New Jersey Scholarship.

Dharm Patel received an AACR-Bristol Myers Squibb Scholar-in-Training Award in January 2017

Eileen Oni received a Christine Mirzayan Science Policy fellowship at the National Academy of Sciences starting in January 2017

Katherine Morgan is first author on a paper in Frontiers in Oncology, January 2017. “Patient-Derived Xenograft Models of Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer and Their Potential Utility in Personalized Medicine.”

Melinda Borrie is first author on a paper in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, January 2017. “Binding, sliding, and function of cohesin during transcriptional activation.”

Praveen Bommareddy is first author on a paper in Cancer Journal, January 2017. “Intratumoral Approaches for the Treatment of Melanoma.”

Blessy George is first author on a paper in Advanced Drug Delivery Reviews, January 2017. “Xenobiotic transporters and kidney injury.

Victor Tan is first author on a paper in Molecular and Cellular Oncolology, January 2017. “Complementing genomics and transcriptomics: Phosphoproteomics illuminates systems biology in prostate cancer.”

December 2016

Alejandra S. Laureano received an NIH F31 entitled Role of Shox2 in Zebrafish Otic Neuron Development in December 2016

Liping Lou received an American Heart Association fellowship "Control of the Mg-permeant Ion Channels by PDZ Scaffold NHERF Proteins" in December 2016

Corina White is first author on a paper in Journal of Biomedical Materials Research, Part A, December 2016. "The influence of substrate modulus on retinal pigment epithelial cells.”

Blessy George is first author on a paper in Clinical Pharmacology and Theuropeutics, December 2016. "Profiling of Kidney Injury Biomarkers in Patients Receiving Cisplatin: Time-Dependent Changes in the Absence of Clinical Nephrotoxicity.”

Praveen Bommareddy is first author on a paper in the American Journal of Clinical Dermatology, December 2016. "Talimogene Laherparepvec (T-VEC) and Other Oncolytic Viruses for the Treatment of Melanoma.”

Ekaterina Nizovtseva is first author on a paper in Nucleic Acids Research, December 2016. “Nucleosome-free DNA regions differentially affect distant communication in chromatin.”

November 2016

Kyle Saitta received an NIH F31 fellowship "The role of CHPG in oligodendrocyte regeneration" in November 2016.

Jason Schifano is first author on a paper in RNA Biology, November 2016. "Cloaked dagger: tRNA slicing by an unlikely culprit.”

October 2016

Philip Tedeschi is first author on a paper in Clinical Cancer Research, November 2016. “NAD+ Kinase as a Therapeutic Target in Cancer.”

Aditi Dubey is first author on a paper in PLoS One, November 2016. “The Selenocysteine-Specific Elongation Factor Contains Unique Sequences That Are Required for Both Nuclear Export and Selenocysteine Incorporation."

Jonathon Brzezinski is first author on a paper in the Journal of Neuroscience, October 2016. “Phosphorylation requirement of murine leukemia virus p12.

Eileen Oni is first author on a paper in Current Pharmacology Reports, October 2016. "Bioinformatic Analysis of DNA Methylation in Neural Progenitor Cell Models of Alcohol Abuse.”

Congratulations to the 2016 Shatkin Scholarship Winners in Oct 2016

Left to right: Fei Wang, Jim Millonig (Senior Associate Dean), Yuhan Zhao, Alexandra Nguyen (not picture)

September 2016

Myka Ababon is first author on a paper in the Journal of Visualized Experiments: JoVE, September 2016.  “Quantitative Measurement of Relative Retinoic Acid Levels in E8.5 Embryos and Neurosphere Cultures Using the F9 RARE-Lacz Cell-based Reporter Assay.”

Tips and Best Practices for Writing and Publishing a Scientific Paper including how to address new rigor and reproducibility criteria. 

For event flyer, click here

To view the slides, click here

To listen to a podcast of the event, click here

Fellowship Writing Workshop 2016 Slides

To view the slides from GradFund, a reviewer's perspective, what to put in the training plan and resources that GSBS can provide, click here

Orientation for Ph.D. and M.S. students 2016 slides

Orientation schedule

Overview slides about Biomedical Graduate School

Graduate Student Association slides

Library slides

Academic integrity slides

Career Services slides

Welcome to the Ph.D. and M.S. class of 2016!!!

August 2016

Caroline Pantazis received an NIH F31 fellowship "Role of Lateral Hypothalamus Orexin Circuits in Cocaine Demand" in August 2016.
Philip Tedeschi is first author on a paper in Clinical Cancer Research, August 2016. “NAD+ Kinase as a Therapeutic Target in Cancer.”
 

Jay M. Patel is first author on paper in Tissue Engineering Part A, August 2016. “Negative outcomes of PLLA fiber-reinforced scaffolds in an ovine total meniscus replacement model.”

July 2016

Alexandra Legeza Nguyen received an NIH F31 fellowship "Investigating the Discrete Functions of the Aurora Kinases in Meiosis I" in July 2016.

Christopher Lowe is first author on a paper in ACS Biomaterials Science & Engineering, July 2016. “Production of Highly Aligned Collagen Scaffolds by Freeze-drying of Self-assembled, Fibrillar Collagen Gels.”

Congratulations to our first batch of iJOBS Phase 3 graduates from Dec 2016

Congratulations to the 2016 Biomedical Careers Program (BCP) Access Med students and GSBS mentors:

This year, as in the past years, GSBS mentors trained EIGHT BCP Access Med students for 4 weeks in their laboratories. All the students presented their research findings at the Student Research Symposium held on July 15, 2016 in the West Lecture Hall.

The Biomedical Careers Program (BCP) is an intensive six-week summer program offering academic enrichment in the sciences and health care orientated activities. BCP offers three levels of coursework and six different curricula for students at various stages of their undergraduate education. Each level includes a combination of lectures, laboratories, clinical correlations, and small group sessions.

BCP Access Med students 2016 

Yessenia Leon (M Bajpai);  Duniel Coke (L Runnels);  Valerie DeJesus (R Rasin);  Iman Ali (N Walworth);    Anevea Tinnery (M Goedken**/D Banerjee);  Becky Adu (S Varia);  Nanama O’Hene (J Shi);  Stephanie Amaefuna (D Banerjee/M Goedken**)  [From Left to Right, GSBS Mentors in parentheses] 

**Director, Research Pathology Services, ORED Translational Sciences, Rutgers University

Congratulations!
Sandra Gensini, from the Master of Clinical and Translational Science Program, received a travel award from the GSBS to present her work at the 11th Annual Academic Surgical Congress held in Jacksonville in Feb 2016. Her platform presentation was entitled “Outcomes of Hybrid versus open surgery for aortic arch disease in the Medicare population”

June 2016

Anna Giarratana received a NJ Commission on Brain Injury Research Fellowship "Effect of Genetic Polymorphisms on Recovery and Treatment after Traumatic Brain Injury" in June 2016

Przemyslaw Swiatkowski received a NJ Commission on Brain Injury Research Fellowship "The Role of Cypin in Recovery of Electrophysiological and Cognitive Functions followint Traumatic Brain Injury" in June 2016.
 

Lisheng Zhou has an internship at Genewiz for the summer of 2016.

Chenchao Gao has an internship at Genentech for 6 months starting June 2016

Dharm Patel has an internship at Leo Pharma, Inc for the summer of 2016

Almin Lalani has an internship at Novartis for the summer of 2016.

Fei Wang has an internship at Tesla Motors, Inc doing data science for the summer of 2016.

Yuan Liu has an internship at Genentech for the summer of 2016.

Heather McGowan is first author on a paper in The Journal of Neuroscience, June 2016. “Bridging the Gap between DNA Methylation, DNA Methylation Readers, and Neurodevelopmental Disorders.”

Matthew Kraushar is first author on a paper in International journal of developmental neuroscience: the official journal of the International Society for Developmental Neuroscience, May 2016. “The frontier of RNA metamorphosis and ribosome signature in neocortical development.”

Congratulations to all of the first and second year PhD students who have completed their Qualifying Exams (Parts A and B)! 

May 2016

Urmimala Basu received an American Heart Association Fellowship "Mechanism and regulation of human mitochondrial DNA transcription" in May 2016.

Congratulations to our 2016 graduates and award winners!

Eva Rubio-Marrero, PhD - GSBS - New Brunswick/Piscataway Outstanding Teaching and Service Award
Leonardo Valdivieso-Torres, PhD - GSBS- New Brunswick/Piscataway Dissertation Excellence Award
Xin Chen - Masters Academic Achievement Award
Roko Rasin, MD, PhD - New Jersey Health Foundation, Inc. Excellence in Teaching Award
George Mulheron, PhD - GSBS Outstanding Educator Award

April 2016

Jessica Fellmeth is first author on a paper in Human molecular genetics, April 2016. “Characterization of macrozoospermia-associated AURKC mutations in a mammalian meiotic system.”
 

Jason Magby is first author on a paper in Neurotoxicology, April 2016. “Developmental pyrethroid exposure causes long-term decreases of neuronal sodium channel expression.”

Congratulations to the Winners of the Joint Molecular Biosciences

Graduate Student Association Annual Symposium

Oral Presentation:
Winner: Diego Marin
First Runner-up: Namit Kumar
Second Runner-up: Victoria DiBona

Poster Presentation:
Winner: Zuleay Rosario-Cruz
First Runner-up: Eva Rubio-Marrero
First Runner-up Jiaqi Zhou
Second Runner-up: Alexandra Nguyen

March 2016

Eva Rubio-Marrero got a job at Celgene.
Ina Nikolaevagot a job at Nucleus Global in March 2016.
Andrea Gray, FDA in the Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research.

Aaron Carlson is first author on a paper in Nature communications, March 2016. “Generation and transplantation of reprogrammed human neurons in the brain using 3D microtopographic scaffolds.”
 

Rui Ding is first author on a paper in Autophagy, March 2016.  “A role for ABCG2 beyond drug transport: regulation of autophagy.”

LABTV Profiles Lab Researchers

Blessy George, Heather McGowan, Xia Wen and Appoorva Halikere PhD Students studying at the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, have been featured by LabTV’s “The Human Faces of Medical Research” podcast series.

LabTV is working to inspire the next generation of great young scientists by featuring the personal stories of young medical researchers in NIH-funded laboratories.

Please click on individual profiles for video.

February 2016

Vince Mirabella received an NIH F30 award "Endoplasmic Reticulum Stress as a Novel Mechanism of Synaptic Dysfunction in Autism Associated NLGN3 R451C Human Neurons" in February 2016.

Olufunmilola (Funmi) Ibironke received a United States Environmental Protection Agency Science to Achieve Results (STAR) Fellowship for Graduate Environmental Study entitled "Air Pollution Particulate Matter Effects on Adaptive Human Antimycobacterial Immunity" in February 2016.

Bhavna Paratala is first author on a paper in Biomarkers in cancer, February 2016. “Emerging Role of Genomic Rearrangements in Breast Cancer: Applying Knowledge from Other Cancers.”

January 2016

Congratulations Jeremy Tang for receiving a NJCCR pre-doctoral fellowship entitled "TRIM33's Role in DNA Repair and Endogenous Retrotransposon Suppression" in January 2016. 

Przemsyslaw Swiatkowski is first author on a paper in Neuroscience, January 2016. “Activation of microglial P2Y12 receptor is required for outward potassium currents in response to neuronal injury.”

Swapnil Devarkar is first author on a paper in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, January 2016. “Structural basis for m7G recognition and 2'-O-methyl discrimination in capped RNAs by the innate immune receptor RIG-I.”

Swapnil Devarkar is co first author on a paper in Nucleic Acids Research, January 2016. “The autoinhibitory CARD2-Hel2i Interface of RIG-I governs RNA selection.”
 

Read about IMSD graduate student Eileen Oni and her experiences in the iJOBS program here

December 2015

Eva Rubio-Marrero is first author on a paper in The Journal of Biological Chemistry, December 2015. “Structural characterization of the extracellular domain of CASPR2 and insights into its association with the novel ligand Contactin1.” 

Leonardo ValdiviesoTorres is first author on a paper in Journal of Virology, December 2015. “The role of cysteines in stabilizing the randomized receptor binding domains within feline leukemia virus Envelope proteins.”

Jeffrey Overton is first author on a paper in Scientific reports, December 2015. “Hepatocystin is Essential for TRPM7 Function During Early Embryogenesis.”

Jonathan Cruz is first author on a paper in Pathogens and Disease, December 2015. “tRNAs taking charge.”

Ashley Pettit is first author on a paper in PLoS One, December 2015. Disrupted Nitric Oxide Metabolism from Type II Diabetes and Acute Exposure to Particulate Air Pollution.

November 2015

Congratulations! The Ernest Mario School of Pharmacy Summer Research Fellowship Program was awarded another R25 grant from the NIH in November 2015.

Anand Ramanathan is first author on a paper in Nucleic Acids Research, November 2015. “The autoinhibitory CARD2-Hel2i Interface of RIG-I governs RNA selection.”

Congratulations to the Shatkin Winners!

Katie Morgan, Jim Millonig, Heather McGowan and Swapnil Devarkar (from Left to Right)

The 2015-16 winners of the Aaron Shatkin Graduate Scholarshi:
Swapnil Devarkar - PhD student in the laby of Smita Patel
Heather McGowan- MD/PhD student in the lab of Zhiping Pang
Katherine Morgan - MD/PhD student in the lab of Sharon Pine.

October 2015

Andrea Gray accepted a job at the FDA in the Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research / Office of Tissue, Cell, and Gene Therapies / Cell Therapies Branch in October 2015. 

Jennifer Therkorn received a Rutgers Eagleton Institute of Politics Fellowship for 2015-16

Heather McGowan is first author on a paper in Cell Regeneration, October 2015.  “Regulatory functions and pathological relevance of the MECP2 3'UTR in the central nervous system.”

September 2015

Rutgers University (PIs Millonig and Yarmush) is excited to announce that we have been awarded a 5 year NIH Broadening Experiences in Scientific Training (BEST) grant.  Click here to learn more about iJOBS that launched in January 2015.

Class Pictures of New Masters of Biomedical Sciences Students

Class Picture of New MS and PhD Students

Michael Pellegrini is first author on a paper in Tissue Engineering. Part C Methods, September 2015. " The Effect of Swelling Ration on the Coulter Underestimation of Hydrogel Microsphere Diameters."

Presentations from Grant Writing Workshop:

To view the slides about GradFund, click here.

To view the slides about NIH review of pre-doctoral fellowships, click here.  For a summary of NIH criteria, click here.

August 2015

Apoorva Halikere was awarded an F31 NIH Grant "Neuronal basis of OPRM1 A118G polymorphism in alcohol use disorders" in August 2015.

Aaron Merriam is first author on a paper in The American Journal of Sports Medicine, August 2015. “Successful Total Meniscus Reconstruction Using a Novel Fiber-Reinforced Scaffold: A 16- and 32-Week Study in an Ovine Model”.

Presentations from New Student Orientation:

To view the slides from the PhD Orientation presentation, click here. 

To view the slides from the Scientific Ethical Conduct presentation, click here.

July 2015

Na Cai received an American Heart Association pre-doctoral fellowship "Regulation of TRPM7 channel kinase by 14-3-3 proteins" in July 2015.

Philip Tedeschi is first author on a paper in Moleculcar Pharmacology, July 2015. “Suppression of Cytosolic NADPH Pool by Thionicotinamide Increases Oxidative Stress and Synergizes with Chemotherapy.”

Kristen Bircsak is first author on a paper in Current Drug Metabolism  in July 2015. “Interaction of Isoflavones with the BCRP/ABCG2 Drug Transporter.”

*The Biomedical Careers Program (BCP)*

The Biomedical Careers Program (BCP) is an intensive six-week summer program offering academic enrichment in the sciences and health care orientated activities. BCP offers three levels of coursework and six different curricula for students at various stages of their undergraduate education. Each level includes a combination of lectures, laboratories, clinical correlations, and small group sessions.

Students in BCP Access Med III Batch of 2015

Left to Right:

Brittany Martinez
Mentor: Z Feng

Cassandra Soto
Mentor: N Walworth

Melissa Encarnacion
Mentor: V Nanda

Efua Bolouvi
Mentor: Z Feng

Brittany Baptiste
Mentor: R Foty

Karen Torres-Soto
Mentor: K Scotto

Nicole Tavernier
Mentor:  S Varia

Haianha Desamour
Mentor: P Copeland

Chukwunwike Okafor

Mentor: J Freeman

Raymond Amponsah

Mentor: D Shreiber

June 2015

Medhi Ghodbane is first author on a paper in Lab on a chip, July 2015. “Development and validation of a microfluidic immunoassay capable of multiplexing parallel samples in microliter volumes.”

Ina Nikolaeva is first author on a paper in Journal of Neurotrauma in June 2015  “Beneficial effects of early mTORC1 inhibition after traumatic brain injury.”

Melissa Olekson is first author on a paper in Wound Repair and Regeration in June 2015 “SDF-1 Liposomes Promote Sustained Cell Proliferation in Mouse Diabetic Wounds.”

Philip Tedeschi is first author on a paper in Molecular Cancer Research: MCR  in June 2015 “Mitochondrial Methylene Tetrahydrofolate Dehydrogenase (MTHFD2) Overexpression is Associated with Tumor Cell Proliferation and is a Novel Target for Drug Development.”

June 2015

Christina Ramirez was accepted to do an internship at the Institut Pasteur Korea in the summer of 2015. She will be working in the Hepatitis Research Laboratory Group led by Dr. Marc P. Windisch.

Eva Rubio Marrero was accepted to do an internship at Eli Lilly for the summer of 2015.

Chenchao Gao was accepted into the summer internship program for the Office of Clinical Pharmacology at the FDA for the summer of 2015.

Leonardo Valdivieso-Torres published an article in ASBMB Today June 2016 "The truth only goes so far. Scientists need to do more to increase scientific literacy in their communities". Leonardo also received a travel award and honorarium as part of the Biotech Literacy Bootcamp at UC Davis in April 2015. 

Philip Tedeschi is first author on a paper in Cancer & Metabolism in May 2015 “Quantification of folate metabolism using transient metabolic flux analysis.”

Jessica Fellmeth is first author on a paper in Molecular Human Reproduction in May 2015 " Expression and characterization of three Aurora kinase C splice variants found in human oocytes."

Divya Nandakumar is first author on a paper in Elife in May 2015 " Cooperative base pair melting by helicase and polymerase positioned one nucleotide from each other."

Sririam Aiyer is first author on a paper in Nucleic Acids Res in May 2015 “ Structural and sequencing analysis of local target DNA recognition by MLV integrase.”

Andrea Gray is first author on a paper in Biotechnology Progress in May 2015 “Identification of IL-1β and LPS as optimal activators of monolayer and alginate-encapsulated mesenchymal stromal cell immunomodulation using design of experiments and statistical methods.”

From the Global Initiatives corner:

• United States Agency for International Development (USAID)-RU Fellowship

Two students, Alexandra Kenefake and Ashley Millette, from our Master of Biomedical Science program have been selected for the USAID-RU fellowship. They have chosen to pursue research at the Universitas Padjajaran in Bandung Indonesia.  While Ashley reached Bandung on the 15^th of June 2015 Alexandra is scheduled to arrive there on the 5^th of July.

• Memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Seoul National University College of Medicine

A delegation from the Seoul national University College of Medicine visited Rutgers on June 5^th to sign an MOU to develop collaborations with The Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences to facilitate research collaborations as well as student and faculty exchange

May 2015

Mihir Patel was awarded a NJ Commission on Brain Injury Research Pre-doctoral Fellowship "Recovery of the dendritic network after traumatic brain injury" in May 2015.

Valentina Dal Pozzo received a NJ Commission on Brain Injury Research Pre-doctoral Fellowship "Role of Reelin in traumatic brain injury" in May 2015.

Jonathan Cruz won the Stanley S. Bergen Medal, Jason Schifano won the Dissertation Excellence Award, and Matthew Kraushar won the Outstanding Teaching and Service award at GSBS Convocation in May 2015.  Congratulations!

Philip Tedeschi is first author on a paper in Cancer Chemotherapy and Pharmacology  in April 2015 “Methylthioadenosine phosphorylase (MTAP)-deficient T-cell ALL xenografts are sensitive to pralatrexate and 6-thioguanine alone and in combination.”

Tzung-Ju Wu is first author on a paper in Cell reports in April 2015 "Identification of a Non-Gatekeeper Hot Spot for Drug-Resistant Mutations in mTOR Kinase.

Kathryn Drzewiecki, Chris Lowe, Andrea Gray, Serom Lee, and Sarah Misenko created a team for the Mid-Atlantic Case Competition. This competition is for non-MBA graduate students to develop consulting case solving skills. It is hosted by the Graduate Student Consulting & Beyond Club at UVA and the Fellow Consulting Club at the NIH. They were selected as one of the 20 teams to compete. They have one week to put together their strategy they present at the NIH. Major consulting firms such as BCG and McKinsey are sponsoring the event and were available for networking.

April 2015

Katie Morgan was awarded an F30 NIH Grant- "MicroRNAs mediating Notch signaling in lung adenocarcinoma" in April 2015.

Evelyn Okeke received a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship and Katelyn Marshall received an Honorable Mention for the NSF Fellowship in April 2015.  Both Evelyn and Katelyn are in the laboratory of Kiran Madura. 

Heather McGowan was awarded a travel stipend in April 2015 from The 1st International Conference of the Trisomy 21 Research Society: "Changing Paradigms in Down Syndrome" in Paris, France.

Matthew Kraushar, Phil Tedeschi and Qian Wu have each received the inaugural Shatkin Awards for excellence in research in April 2015.  Each graduate student will receive $1500 to supplement the graduate stipend and $1500 for educational purposes.

Shanique Edwards will be a Biology Science Writer at Draw it to Know it Creative LLC in Indianapolis, IN. DITKI uses a visual-based approach to learning to create supplemental learning material for medical students.

Srikanth Vemulapalli is first author on paper in The Journal of Rheumatology in April 2015 “Inclusion Body Myositis in a Patient with RNA Polymerase III Antibody-positive Systemic Sclerosis.”

Monal Mehta is first author on a paper in Molecular Cancer Therapeutics in February 2015 “Radiosensitization of Primary Human Glioblastoma Stem-like Cells With Low-dose AKT Inhibition.”

Mehdi Ghodbane is first author on paper in Microfluid Nanofluidics in February 2015 “Development of a low-volume, highly sensitive microimmunoassay using computational fluid dynamics-driven multiobjective optimization.”

Michelle Sempkiowski received a Graduate Student Fellowship in March 2015 from the New Jersey Commission on Cancer Research studying a new binding geometry on liposomes that has the potential to selectively and effectively target and kill cancer cells with low or too low receptor expression.

March 2015:

Congratulations!

Winners of the Aaron Shatkin Graduate Scholarship

Qian Wu, Philip Tedeshi, and Matthew Kraushar with Jim Millonig.

Winners from the GSA symposium

Oral Presentation:

Winner: Melvili Cintron

First Runner-up: Jessica Fellmeth

Second Runner-up: Jon Brzezinski

Poster Presentation:

Winner: Hanif Havedian-Mohaved

First Runner-up: Alexandra Nguyen

Second Runner-up: Leonardo Valdivieso

HGINJ Reproductive Genetics sponsored travel awards:

Alexandra Nguyen

Chenchao Gao

Jake Jacobs

Dharm Patel  and Sarah Misenko who are both in the lab of Sam Bunting each received a Graduate Student Fellowship in March 2015 from the New Jersey Commission on Cancer Research.  Dharm's grant is "The Function of Bloom Helicase in Mammalian DNA Double Strend Break Repair" and Sarah's grant is titled "Testing the Contribution of DNA Double-Strand Break Resection Factors to DNA Repair in Mammalian Cells". 

Bo Li is first author on a paper in Developmental Biology in March 2015 “The orphan GPCR, Gpr161, regulates the retinoic acid and canonical Wnt pathways during neurulation.”

Graduate student Leonardo Valdivieso-Torres wrote an article entitled "Science Policy: Why Minority Science Students Should Care about Science Policy".  He and fellow graduate student Victoria DiBona spend a day on Capitol Hill through ASBMB to learn about lobbying for science.  Click here to read the article. Great job Leonardo and Vicky!

January 2015:

Christiaan de Vries is first author on a paper in Cancer Gene Therapy in January 2015 "The addition of recombinant vaccinia HER2/neu to oncolytic vaccinia-GMCSF given into the tumor microenvironment overcomes the MDSC-medicated immune escape and systemic anergy."

Renea Faulknor is first author on a paper in Biochem Biophys Res Commun published in January 2015 "Mesenchymal stromal cells reverse hypoxia-mediated suppression of alpha-smooth muscle actin expression in human dermal fibroblasts".

December 2014

Michelle Cicchini is first author on a paper in Autophagy published in December 2014 "Autophagy regulator BECN1 suppresses mammary tumorigenesis driven by WNT1 activation and following parity".

Dwaipayan Mukherjee is first author on a paper in PLoS One published in December 2014 "Physiologically-based toxicokinetic modeling of zearalenone and its metabolites: application to the jersey girl study".

November 2014

Kristina Hernandez got a job at MediTech Media which is a part of Nucleus Global in November 2015.

Winder Perez got a job at Stryker Corp as an Assistant Microbiologist in November 2015
William Schneider, Ph.D., postdoc at Rockefeller
Eric Joyce, Ph.D., postdoc at Harvard
Arjun Sasikumar, Ph.D., postdoc at UC Berkeley
Leia Miller, Ph.D., postdoc at the NIH

Kristina Hernandez and Munjin Kwon are co-authors on a paper in Biological Psychiatry published in Nov 2014 "Nos1AP, a protein implicated in schizophrenia, controls radial migration of cortical neurons".

Almin Lalani is first author on a paper in J. Immunology published in Nov 2014 "Myeloid cell TRAF3 regulates immune responses and inhibits inflammation and tumor development in mice".

Michelle Sempkowski is first author on a paper in Crit Rev Oncology Nov 2014 "Liposome-based approaches for delivery of mainstream chemotherapeutics: preparation methods, liposome designs, therapeutic efficacy".

October 2014:

• Eva Rubio-Marrero in Davide Comeletti's lab was selected to go to: Scientist Mentoring & Diversity Program for Biotechnology (SMDP Biotech)

• Daniel Sharp received the Steven A. Cox Scholarship in Cancer Research at Rutgers University

• Sam Kogan received
  Eastern Vascular Society Student Award for "Surgical Treatment of a Pancreaticoduodenal Arcade Aneurysm in the Setting of Chronic Total Occlusion of the Celiac Trunk"

September 2014:

Rutgers has been ranked 33rd worldwide of 1000 top universities and 24th of 229 top US universities by the Center for World University Rankings.

Please click below for important Presentations from our orientation

Ph.D./M.S. GSBS Orientation Slides

Academic and Research Integrity Orientation Slides

Matthew L. Kraushar published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA.  "Temporally defined neocortical translation and polysome assembly are determined by the RNA-binding protein, Hu antigen R".

We held our first iJOBS career panel in September 2014. The topic was Educational Careers with a Biology PhD. The speakers were Patricia Irizarry-Barreto, Tara Cominski and Lucille O'Reilly. For advice on how to prepare for careers in education, click here.

August 2014:

*The Biomedical Careers Program (BCP)*

The Biomedical Careers Program (BCP) is an intensive six-week summer program offering academic enrichment in the sciences and health care orientated activities. BCP offers three levels of coursework and six different curricula for students at various stages of their undergraduate education. Each level includes a combination of lectures, laboratories, clinical correlations, and small group sessions.

Students in BCP Access Med III Batch of 2014

Omowunmi Adedeji
Mentor: Chenchao Gao, Anuja George and Nancy Walworth, Ph.D.
Department of Pharmacology

Brandon Roberson
Mentor: Loren Runnels, Ph.D.
Department of Pharmacology

Yousef Elfanagely
Mentor: Daniel Medina, Ph.D.
Department of Medicine

Amanda Piedra
Mentor: Manisha Bajpai, Ph.D.
Department of Medicine
Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology

Oluwatoyin Dada
Mentor: Kirk Pabon, Mgr. Res study and Jia Shi, Ph.D.
Department of Pharmacology

Ife Aridegbe
Mentor: Vikas Nanda, Ph.D.
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Ashley Abbott
Mentor:  Sagar Singh, Ph.D. candidate and David Shreiber, Ph.D.
Department of Biomedical Engineering

Ashley Brown
Mentor: Richard Padgett, Ph.D.
Department of Developmental and Molecular Genetics
The Waksman Institute of Microbiology/Rutgers, The State University of NJ

As in the past, GSBS faculty participated in the biochemistry and laboratory part of the BCP Access Med III program. Besides the didactic course work in biochemistry, students were paired with faculty mentors to carry out research in the mentors’ laboratories for 6 weeks. The students participated in journal clubs and presented their research findings at a symposium on July 11^th 2014 in the RWJMS East Lecture Hall. We would like to thank all the mentors

June 2014:

Hanif Vahedian-Movahed is co-first author on a paper published in Science in June 2014 "Transcription. Interactions between RNA polymerase and the "core recognition element" counteract pausing"

May 2014:

GSBS Convocation Picture Gallery 2014

Congratulations Class of 2014

Kathleen M. Capaccione - OUtstanding Teaching and Service Award

Winder Bienvenido Perez - Dissertation Excellence Award

Ahlim Al Sanani - Outstanding Academic Achievement Award

Congratulations Dr. Patel and Dr. Walworth

Miao Chen published in Genes and Development in May 2014 "Coordination of tRNA transcription with export at nuclear pore complexes in budding yeast"

Heather McGowan received an F31 fellowship from the NIH in May 2014 "Synaptic function of Chromosome 21-encoded miRNAs" 

April 2014

Jason Schifano published in Nature Communications in April 2014 "An RNA-seq method for defining endoribonuclease cleavage specificity identifies dual rRNA substrates for toxin MazF-mt3"

Christopher Lowe, a Ph.D. student in Biomedical Engineering, has been awarded a 3-year, $100,000 fellowship from the New Jersey Commission on Brain Injury
Research (NJCBIR). Chris aims to improve neural cell survival and regeneration following injury using biomaterials that include different peptide fragments of BDNF. Chris is advised by Dr. David Shreiber.

Victoria DiBona received a Graduate Student  Fellowship in April 2014 from the New Jersey Commission for Brain Injury  Research "Modulating neuroinflammation for
treatment of TBI".

March 2014

Erik DeBoer published in Journal of Neuroscience in March 2014 "Prenatal deletion of the RNA-binding protein HuD disrupts postnatal cortical circuit maturation and behavior"

Jonathan Cruz published in Journal of Biological Chemistry in March 2014 "Doc toxin is a kinase that inactivates elongation factor Tu"