May 2006

Professor De Lozanne wins the Jean Holloway Award!

Arturo De Lozanne, an Associate Professor in MCDB, was recognized for excellence in teaching, receiving the Jean Holloway Award. He was honored at a dinner May 8, attended by former Holloway laureates and student members of the selection committee.

The Jean Holloway Award was established in 1970, and is awarded each year to a faculty member from the Colleges of Liberal Art and Natural Sciences who 'should demonstrate a warmth of spirit, a concern for society and for the individual, and the ability to impart knowledge while challenging his/her students to independent inquiry and creative thought, as well as a respect for the understanding of the permanent values of our culture.'

Congratulations to Arturo!

June 2006

John Wallingford receives an Early Career Excellence Award from the Sandler Program for Asthma Research

The Sandler Program for Asthma Research has taken the unusual step of looking for researchers outside the field of asthma research who will bring their expertise and new ideas to bear on this problem. John's work is primarily aimed at understanding several key events in developmental biology, including neural tube closure and gastrulation. However, recent work has focused on ciliogenesis, which is relevant to the need for cilia to clear mucus from the airway.

August 2006

MCDB welcomes a new member of the faculty

Our search for a cell biologist led to the successful recruitment of Jennifer Morgan. Jennifer was a graduate student at Duke, did postdoctoral work at Yale, and will join the faculty in summer 2007 after a year as a visiting Assistant Professor at Bowdoin. Her research focuses on the cell biology of synaptic transmission.

October 2006

Recent work from Marty Poenie's lab has been highlighted in Cell's Leading Edge. See Cell 127, 231-233. This commentary highlights the discoveries published in Combs, J., Kim, S.J., Tan, S., Ligon, L.A., Holzbaur, E.L.F., Kuhn, J., and Poenie, M. (2006). Recruitment of dynein to the Jurkat immunological synapse. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 103, 14883-14888.

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