May 2026 Report of Genetics Community Member Accomplishments

Fellowships:

  • Megan Guyer (Kang lab) was awarded an American Heart Association Fellowship
  • Carolina de Medeiros Vieira (Lo Sardo lab) was awarded a Stem Cell & Regenerative Medicine Center Graduate Fellowship
  • Aayushi Raval (Wolter lab) was awarded a Stem Cell & Regenerative Medicine Center Graduate Fellowship

Publications:

Talks:

  • Chris Jabbarpour (Wolter lab) gave a talk entitled “Single-Nucleus Sequencing of the Brain Reveals Cell-Specific Pathways Driving the Metabolic Benefits of Sleeve Gastrectomy” at the Gut-Brain-Axis Keystone Symposium

Awards: 

  • Beatrice Severance (Anderson lab) won Best Poster prize at the Microbes in Microbiomes meeting for her poster entitled “Improving detection of eukaryotes in complex communities via enrichment and selective sequencing”
  • Jake Brunkard (Brunkard lab) won the 2026 Outstanding Student Parent Support Award, presented annually by the Office of Child Care and Family Resources
  • Carolina De Medeiros Vieira (Lo Sardo lab) won a Stone Travel Award to attend Vascular Discovery 2026
  • Elsa Salido (Lo Sardo lab) won a Stone Travel Award to attend Vascular Discovery 2026
  • Emily Ubbelohde (Hittinger lab) won a Stone Travel Award to attend the 33rd Fungal Genetics meeting
  • Yadwinder Kaur (Harrison lab) won a Stone Travel Award to attend the Annual Drosophila Research Conference
  • Benjamin Narh-Madey (Hittinger lab) won a Stone Travel Award to attend Population, Evolution, and Quantitative Genetics
  • Siyuan Feng (Pool lab) won a Stone Travel Award to attend the 67th Annual Drosophila Research Conference and/or 2026 Population, Evolutionary, and Quantitative Genetics Conference
  • Myron Child (Pool lab) won a Stone Travel Award to attend the 67th Annual Drosophila Research Conference and/or 2026 Population, Evolutionary, and Quantitative Genetics Conference
  • Emily Simonton (Anderson lab) won a Fungal Supergroup Travel Award to attend the 33rd Fungal Genetics meeting
  • Liza Loza (Anderson lab) won a Fungal Supergroup Travel Award to attend the Cellular and Molecular Fungal Biology GRC

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