Recent Graduations & Promotions

  • Drishya Diwaker from the Wilson lab is promoted to Research Assistant Professor - Congratulations Drishya! 

Recent Funding & Awards

  • Alissa Baker received the Department of Defense Career Development Award through the Rare Cancer Research Program to further understand Wnt signaling in Ewing sarcoma metastases using zebrafish modeling. Congratulations, Alissa!
  • Congrats to Richard Stanley on the R01 with Frangogiannis, N. titled "Macrophages in Myocardial Infarction" Role and therapeutic potential of the CSF-1/CSF-1R axis in the infarcted heart.
  • Richard Stanley also received the IDDRC Pilot Grant (NIH P50 HD105352) “Generation of a Mouse model of NEDAMSS to explore the role of IRF2BPL in Neurodegeneration and Possible Avenues for Treatment”. Congratulations!
  • Sofia De Oliveira is elected as Associate Councilor of the Society of Leukocyte Biology Board. Congratulations!
  • Congrats to Sofia De Oliveira for also being nominated as Director of Einstein Zebrafish Facility
  • Alexander Ledet from the Cuervo lab was selected for an oral presentation at the American Liver Foundation Symposium in November 2024. Congrats!
  • Congrats to Cassia Michael from the De Oliveira lab who was selected to chair the Immunology and Critical Care at SLB2024.
  • Floralba Gjergjova and Phillip Dmitriev from the Cuervo lab were selected for oral presentations at the 8th Annual Northeast Glenn Symposium, Yale University in October 2024. Kudos to them!
  • Kudos to Joaquin Canton Sandoval from the De Oliveira lab who was selected for oral presentation at SLB 2024.
  • Jonathan Handy from the Jenny lab has received the Liang Zhu travel award for oral presentation at 2025 Fly Meeting in San Diego. Congratulations, Jonathan!
  • Also, proud of Maria Feliz Norberto for the Recognition Award at ASH annual meeting held in 2024 (San Diego, USA)!
  • Phillip Dmitriev from the Cuervo lab was selected for an oral presentation at the 5th Annual Symposium of Women in Autophagy that was held in October 2024. Kudos to Phillip!
  • Rebecca Sereda from the Cuervo lab chaired the 5th Annual Symposium of Women In Autophagy held in October 2024. Congrats, Rebecca!
  • Proud of Rebecca Sereda, who was selected for an oral presentation at the 9th International Cell Senescence Association Conferences held in October 2024, and also won the 1st price for her poster. Way to go, Rebecca!
  • Kudos to Susmita Kaushik, Sandra Pelka and Floralba Gjergjova from the Cuervo lab who organized the 5th Annual Symposium of Women in Autophagy held in October 2024.
  • Kudos to Susmita Kaushik and Rebecca Sereda from the Cuervo lab who organized the 1st Annual Meeting of the Einstein-Hevolution partnership held in New York in January 2025. 

Welcome to DMB!

  • Welcome Allison Hector who has joined the De Oliveira lab. 

Recent Publications

  • Congrats to Drishya Diwaker from the Wilson lab for her research article “Diwaker D. et al. (2024). The gE/gI-US9p complex is necessary for kinesin-1 recruitment during alphaherpesvirus egress from neurons. J. Virology, in press.”
  • Congratulations to Mericka McCabe from the Cuervo lab on her publication in Nature Cell Biology highlighting the Women in Autophagy initiative, which supports greater representation in science. Read more: Nature Cell Biology.
  • Rabia Khawaja, along with other members of the Cuervo lab, published an article in Nature Aging about the sex-dependent changes in CMA with age.  https://www.nature.com/articles/s43587-024-00799-6. Congratulations!

Tuesday, Feb 18, 2025