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
- Megan Guyer and Steffani Manna (Kang lab) co-authored “Advancing knock-in approaches for robust genome editing in zebrafish” in Biology Open
- Khagani Eynullazada (Roy/Sridharan labs) co-authored “Defining the role of β-cell IRE1α/XBP1 pathway and its gene regulatory network components in non-obese diabetic mice” in Nature Communications
- Rachel Kocik, Eli Cytrynbaum, Jamie Ahrens, Megan McClean & Audrey Gasch (McClean and Gasch labs) published “The importance of regulated resource reallocation during dynamic environmental shifts in yeast” in The EMBO Journal
- Rob Melde, Austin Daigle, JoHanna Abraham & Nathaniel Sharp (Sharp lab) published “Meiotic double-strand DNA breaks and spontaneous mutation in Drosophila melanogaster” in G3
- Gwanwoou Yun, Ronchen Liu & Nathaniel Sharp (Sharp lab) published “Quantitative genetics of trauma induced mortality in Drosophila melanogaster” in Heredity
- Linnea Sandell, Anna Bazzicalupo, Sarah Otto & Nathaniel Sharp (Sharp lab) published “Evolutionary responses to increased opportunity for sexual selection in yeast” in BMC Ecology and Evolution
- 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
- 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