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Faculty News
Warmest congratulations to our newest tenured Associate Professor,
Dr.
Philip Starks!
The three-year National Science Foundation grant
"Neuromechanics of soft-bodied locomotion" awarded to Professor
Barry Trimmer
will examine the intricate interplay between neural processes and biomechanics
in the control of complex three dimensional movements. These studies use the
soft-bodied larval stage of an insect, Manduca sexta, as a model system and
employ kinematics, dynamics and neurophysiological techniques. This work is
directly related to an ongoing project to build soft-bodied robots at the Tufts
Biomimetic Devices laboratory. The total grant award is for almost $475,000.
Mitch McVey was awarded a NSF CAREER
grant which is funding research on alternative pathways of DNA double-strand
break repair in Drosophila.
Graduate Student News
Shoni Caine received a Graduate Student Research Award of
$700. Also she will be giving a talk titled: "Pronephric kidney
regeneration in the amphibian Xenopus laevis" at the Northeast
Society for Developmental Biology (NESDB) Regional Conference (April
2008), Marine Biological Laboratory, Wood's Hole, MA.
Sasha Keyel was selected to receive a 2008 National Science Foundation (NSF)
Graduate Research Fellowship (GRF) award.
Nealia House received a Graduate Student Research Award.
Brian Tavernia and Jenny Lenkowski each received a TIE Environmental Graduate
Student Research Fellowship for 2008-2009.
Carolyn Gaydos received a GSAS travel award to attend NESDB meeting in April
2008.
Graduate Student Publications
Zhang H. and Freudenreich, C.H. (2007) An AT-rich sequence in human common
fragile site FRA16D causes fork stalling and chromosome breakage in S.
cerevisiae. Molecular Cell 27, 367-379. (profiled in /Science/ News Focus “DNAs
Molecular Gymnastics”, June 9, 2006 312: 1467-68.)
Lenkowski, J., Reed, J.M., Deininger, L.*, and McLaughlin, K.A. (2008)
Perturbation of Organogenesis by the Herbicide Atrazine in the Amphibian Xenopus
laevis. Environmental Health Perspectives 116:223-230 (published online Nov. 22,
2007).
Bracken, C., Mizeracka, K.*, and McLaughlin, K.A. (2008) Patterning the
embryonic kidney: BMP signaling mediates the differentiation of the pronephric
tubules and duct. Developmental Dynamics 237:132¬144 (published online Dec. 10,
2007).
*former undergraduates
Undergraduate News
Jonathan Moy and Nicole Cherng are the recipients of the Russell L. Carpenter
Fellowships for summer 2008. This is an opportunity for two undergraduates to be
paid to carry out research with faculty members in biology.
Jonathan Moy received the Carmichael Award (for research) and Presidential Award
(for citizenship and public service)
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