Congratulations to Tom Lane (Kevin Slep’s lab) whose article titled “Structure of the ACF7 EF-Hand-GAR Module and Delineation of Microtubule Binding Determinants” appears in the Cell Press journal Structure. [Lane TR, Fuchs E, Slep KC.Structure. 2017 May 30. pii: S0969-2126(17)30140-5. doi: 10.1016/j.str.2017.05.006. {Epub ahead of print} PMID: 28602822z]
Congratulations to Amy Byrnes (Kevin Slep’s lab) whose article titled “TOG-tubulin binding specificity promotes microtubule dynamics and mitotic spindle formation” was recently published in The Journal of Cell Biology. [Byrnes AE, Slep KC. J Cell Biol. 2017 Jun 5;216(6):1641-1657. doi: 10.1083/jcb.201610090. Epub 2017 May 16. PMID: 28512144]
As a member of the executive committee of MiBio, Amy Shaub Maddox, together with Dale Ramsden (Director), Ben Major and Jean Cook, is pleased to announce the funding of a new NIH T32 Training Program in Cell Biology: Mechanistic, Interdisciplinary Studies of Biological Systems. “MiBio” will provide enriching training experiences including a cross-campus curated seminar club, a retreat, a symposium, IDP-check-up mentoring, and an interactive Ask-an Expert platform.
Congratulations to Professor Vicki Bautch whose article titled “Endoglin moves and shapes endothelial cells” appeared in Nature Cell Biology’s ‘News and Views.”
Zhixian Yu (former grad student), Dana L. Ruter (current postdoc), Erich J. Kushner (former postdoc), and Victoria L. Bautch published a paper titled “Excess centrosomes induce p53-dependent senescence without DNA damage in endothelial cells” in The FASEB Journal (Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology).
Joshua Boucher (former postdoc), Ryan Clark (former undergrad/postbac), Diana Chong (current graduate student), Kathryn Citrin (current undergrad/postbac), Lyndsay Wylie (current graduate student), and Victoria L. Bautch published a paper titled “Dynamic alterations in decoy VEGF receptor-1 stability regulate angiogenesis,” in Nature Communications. The paper was also recommended by Faculty of 1000.
Congratulations to Danielle Berlin (graduate student in Vicki Bautch’s lab) who was awarded a slot on the Integrated Vascular Biology Training Grant. “By implementing an integrative approach to studies of complex model systems through multidisciplinary collaborations, the IVB program unites students who are working in the field of vascular biology and provides an environment that encourages collaborations and research involving more than one laboratory.”
Congratulations to Professor Robert Peet, who is the recipient of the International Association of Vegetation Sciences (IAVS) Honorary Membership Award. “Honorary Membership is the highest award the IAVS can bestow and recognizes sustained contributions of extraordinary merit to the Association or the field of Vegetation Science.” Bob’s career is chronicled in the Bulletin of the International Association for Vegetation Science.
Congratulations to PhD students John Noto and Casey Schmidt, and faculty member Greg Matera for their publication in RNA Biology entitled “Engineering and expressing circular RNAs via tRNA splicing.” In this paper, they focus on the biogenesis of tRNA intronic circular RNAs (tricRNAs) in archaea and animals, and detail their use as research tools for orthogonal, directed circRNA expression in vivo. [Noto JJ, Schmidt CA, Matera AG.RNA Biol. 2017 Apr 12:0. doi:10.1080/15476286.2017.1317911. [Epub ahead of print] PMID: 284012213]
Congratulations to the Daniel McKay Lab (Biology, Genetics, Integrative Program for Biological and Genome Sciences) for their manuscript “Hormone-dependent control of developmental timing through regulation of chromatin accessibility,” recently published in the journal Genes & Development. The work described in the paper provides new insight into how information regulating gene expression is accessed by transcription factors to drive developing tissues forward in time. GMB graduate students Chris Uyehara, Spencer Nystrom, and Matt Niederhuber were all authors on the paper. Make sure to also check out the UNC Press Release!