The University of Wisconsin-Madison Laboratory of Genetics would like to congratulate Megan Guyer on receiving an NIH F31 a
ward! For those unfamiliar, an F31 is a prestigious individual grant from the National Institutes of Health that supports promising graduate students conducting dissertation research and training toward a Ph.D. or equivalent research degree in health-related fields.
Megan is in the Junsu Kang Lab, researching the active and repressive mechanisms that maintain injury specificity within cardiac regeneration enhancers in zebrafish. Specifically, she studies enhancers, a region of DNA that transcription factors bind to in order to increase the rate of transcription and therefore expression of a particular gene, that are active in response to cardiac injury in zebrafish.
Megan was also selected as an awardee for a National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship Program and the American Heart Association Pre-Doctoral Fellowship!
We are incredibly proud of Megan and all of her accomplishments; we cannot wait to see her future successes!