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- Congratulations to our 2025 DevBio Spring Retreat Winners
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- November 2024 paper from the Zeltner Lab including the Liu and Tiemeyer Labs: Genipin rescues developmental and degenerative defects in familial dysautonomia models and accelerates axon regeneration.
- August 2024 paper from the Liu Lab: The duct of von Ebner’s glands is a source of Sox10+ taste bud progenitors and susceptible to pathogen infections.
- Summer 2024 from the Roberts-Galbraith Lab: Congratulations to Christina Endara-Arnold who was awarded the ARCS (Achievement Rewards for College Scientists). “Foundation advances science and technology in the United States by providing financial awards to academically outstanding students who are US citizens studying to complete degrees in science, engineering, math, technology, and medical research.”
- Summer 2024 from the Roberts-Galbraith Lab: Congratulations to Kendall Clay who was awarded the NIH F31 grant from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS).
- June 2024 paper from the Roberts-Galbraith Lab: Planarian LDB and SSDP proteins scaffold transcriptional complexes for regeneration and patterning
- April 2024 paper from the Zeltner and Liu Labs: Parasympathetic Neurons Derived from Human Pluripotent Stem Cells
- September 2023 paper from the Roberts-Galbraith Lab: Ets-1 transcription factor regulates glial cell regeneration and function in planarians
- September 2023 paper from the Liu Lab: Taste papilla cell differentiation requires the regulation of secretory protein production by ALK3-BMP signaling in the tongue mesenchyme
- Taylor Medlock-Lanier (Roberts-Galbraith Lab) was accepted to and attended the 2023 Advanced Techniques in Molecular Neuroscience Course at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory from June 29th to July 15th.
- April 2023 paper from the Roberts-Galbraith Lab and recent doctoral graduate Dr. Jennifer Jenkins: Heterotrimeric G proteins regulate planarian regeneration and behavior
- May 2023 paper from the Zeltner Lab: Isolation of human pluripotent stem cell-derived sensory neuron subtypes by immunopanning
- May 2023 paper from the Zeltner and Lui Labs: O-GlcNAcylation is crucial for sympathetic neuron development, maintenance, functionality and contributes to peripheral neuropathy
- February 2023 article on the Menke Lab: CRISPR provides new understanding of reptile coloration
- November 2022 paper from the Zeltner Lab: Norepinephrine transporter defects lead to sympathetic hyperactivity in Familial Dysautonomia models
- October 2022 article on Genetics Professor, Pengpeng Bi, Receives Two NIH Awards
- March 2021 article on UGA’s Rozario receives NIH Director’s New Innovator Award
- May 2021 paper from the Roberts-Galbraith Lab: CBP/p300 homologs CBP2 and CBP3 play distinct roles in planarian stem cell function
- March 2020 article on “Bolstering Immunity – Disease-fighting organ fails with age, UGA researcher, Nancy Manley is changing that”
- April 2019 Office of Research Article: UGA scientists create world’s first gene-edited lizards
- October 2018 paper from the Lechtreck Lab: In vivo analysis of outer arm dynein transport reveals cargo-specific intraflagellar transport properties
- September 2018 paper from the Gaertig Lab: Proteins that control the geometry of microtubules at the ends of cilia
- August 2018 paper from the Haltiwanger Lab: Two novel protein O-glucosyltransferases that modify sites distinct from POGLUT1 and affect Notch trafficking and signaling
- November 2017 paper from the Haltiwanger Lab: Inhibition of Delta-induced Notch signaling using fucose analogs