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July 2024 – Rachel DuMez-Kornegay’s research on the probiotics found in kombucha is highlighted by UNC endeavors, read it here!

July 2024 – Meris McElveen presents her work as part of the UNC SMART program

June 2024 – Sarah Torzone wins the best trainee talk award at the 2024 C. elegans MAPSS meeting

June 2024 – Kylie VanDerMolen wins a best poster award at the 2024 C. elegans MAPSS meeting

June 2024 – Lab members attend the 2024 C. elegans MAPSS meeting in Madison, WI

June 2024 – Peter Breen’s paper is published in Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology, read it here.

May 2024 – Monica Macharios and Kendra Honey awarded a UNC SURF fellowship

May 2024 – Yasmine Ackall awarded a SURE fellowship at Emory University

May 2024 – Lilly Baker awarded a Summer Research Internship at the University of Virginia

April 2024 – Lilly Baker, Yasmine Ackall, and Monica Macharios present posters at the UNC Celebration of Undergraduate Research Symposium

March 2024 – Rachel DuMez-Kornegay’s paper is published in PLoS Genetics, read it here.

December 2023 – Kendra Honey’s paper is published in microPublication Biology, read it here.

November 2023 – Kylie VanDerMolen passes her oral exam and is a PhD candidate!

September 2023 – Sarah Torzone’s paper is published in PLoS Biology, read it here.

July 2023 – Rachel DuMez-Kornegay is appointed to an NIH NCCIH F31 Training Grant, read more here!

April 2023 – Melisa Cecilio Sosa and Kendra Honey present posters at the UNC Biology 395 Undergraduate Research Poster Symposium

April 2023 – Sarah Torzone is awarded Highest Honors and the Brantley Award for excellence in research in molecular, cell, and developmental biology for her senior honors thesis

October 2022 – Rachel DuMez is a top-ten graduate student finalist and wins People’s Choice Award in the 3-Minute Thesis competition hosted by the UNC Graduate School

September 2022 – Rachel DuMez wins Most Outstanding Talk at the UNC Genetics Departmental Retreat

July 2022 – Sarah Torzone and Rachel DuMez present posters at the Metabolism, Aging, Pathogenesis, and Stress in C. elegans conference in Madison, WI

June 2022 – Sarah Torzone gives a talk at the Society for Developmental Biology Regional Meeting

June 2022 – Kylie VanDerMolen is appointed to the NIGMS T32 Genetics Training Grant

April 2022 – David Cully, Sarah Torzone, and Kendra Honey present their work at the Celebration of Undergraduate Research Symposium

April 2022 – Sarah Torzone is awarded a UNC SURF award

April 2022 – Kendall Kanakanui is awarded a NSF-GRFP

April 2022 – BBSP student Kylie VanDerMolen joins the Dowen Lab and the Genetics and Molecular Biology Curriculum.