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William and Lucille Clark Fund Travel Rewards
APPLICATION FOR TRAINEE AWARDS The goal of the William and Lucille Clark Fund is to create and support novel opportunities for development, implementation, and networking on innovative scientific research for trainees in the Department of Biological Structure. William and Lucille Clark were committed to service and kindness. They believed that education contributes novel solutions to complex…
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Summer Science Program featured in UW Medicine Huddle
The Summer Science Program, which was founded by P.Bio faculty Claudia Moreno, assistant professor, and Fred Rieke, professor, just finished its second year. The program was featured in the UW Medicine Huddle: https://huddle.uwmedicine.org/summer-of-science-opens-doors-to-research-careers/
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Oscar Vivas, PhD, joins UW P.Bio & UW Pharmacology
Oscar Vivas, PhD, has accepted a joint assistant professor position with the Department of Physiology & Biophysics and the Department of Pharmacology. He is slated to start in early 2023. Oscar has been a valued member of our community for many years. Oscar first joined the department when he came to Seattle to do postdoctoral…
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Hanna Gray Fellows
Congratulations to Kiara Eldred and Anna Bowen, who have been selected as 2022 Hanna Gray Fellows of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI)! We are very proud to have you in our department and wish you every success! Read about them and their research here (link).
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Astra Bryant, PhD, to join department
We are delighted to announce that Astra Bryant, PhD is joining the department in January 2023 as a tenure-track assistant professor. Her lab will study the thermal physiology of skin-penetrating parasitic nematodes. She will focus her projects on parasite thermosensory neural circuits, parasite thermotransduction cascades, and more. Welcome to P.Bio, Astra!
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Jessica Jones awarded Gilliam Fellowship
Congrats to Jessica! Jessica Jones, a neuroscience graduate student in John Tuthill’s lab, was awarded a Gilliam Fellowship from Howard Hughes Medical Institute. More information about the fellowship can be found here: https://www.hhmi.org/news/hhmi-awards-51-new-gilliam-fellowships-advance-diversity-and-inclusion-science
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Image: MouseRGC-bipolar cells and PSD95 – Rachel Wong